Eating disorders and therapy Books

Book SynopsisAn award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsessionTrade Review“Girls learn that how they look is more important than who they are—the essential symptom of beauty sickness.’ But Engeln doesn’t stop at diagnosis: she offers the possibility of a cure.” — Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex “Her solid ideas...will help women think positively about themselves regardless of body shape. Thorough research and helpful personal stories effectively relay the dilemma that nearly all women face on a daily basis.” — Kirkus Reviews “[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement…provocative and necessary.” — Rebellious Magazine “Renee Engeln...argues that our obsession with women’s looks amounts to a society-wide psychological illness...The book indicts social and news media in helping to create beauty sickness by drawing on research and interviews with real-world girls and women.” — Pacific Standard “[P]rofessor Engeln’s sharp examination of beauty sickness reveals its disturbing impact on women of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds...Engeln’s writing is engaging and conversational...Engeln’s book is thought provoking and will be fascinating for all readers, especially those interested in psychology, cultural studies, media, or gender studies.” — Booklist (starred review) “Engeln’s new book, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession With Appearance Hurts Girls and Women (Harper), explores the ways we remind women—young and old—that the most important thing they can be is beautiful.” — Chicago Tribune “Inspiring.” — PureWow “Info-packed...highly readable...” — Elle “Beauty Sick is the title of Engeln’s new book, which has more than 350 pages of exhaustive research, interviews, and analysis into the set of contradictions that inform the reality of millions of women’s lives.” — The Times (London)

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Book SynopsisIF YOU'RE TIRED OF BEING AT WAR WITH YOUR BODY, THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. With guest essays and contributions from several highly influential bloggers and social media stars, this book from body positivity campaigner and activist Megan Jayne Crabbe (@meganjaynecrabbe) is the perfect call to arms for anyone who has ever felt bad about themselves and wondered if life would be cooler/easier/more fun if they just looked 'better' somehow...'This book is nothing short of pure magic <3' -- ***** Reader review'A must-read' -- ***** Reader review 'This book is definitely a must-read for everyone, and a total eyeopener too!' -- ***** Reader review'Enlightening! Profound body positive power!' -- ***** Reader review'Such a beautiful book' -- ***** Reader review'Buy book, read book, prepare for your mindset to change for the better!' -- ***** Reader review'Not enough stars to credit this amazing work' -- ***** Reader review*******************************************************************************************************We've been convinced that happiness is something that only comes once we hit that goal weight, get those washboard abs, shrink ourselves down and change every part of ourselves. We believe that our bodies are the problem, but this is not true. It's how we've been taught to see our bodies that's the problem... It's time for us all to stop believing the lies we've been fed about what it means to be beautiful, and take our power back.Megan's body image issues began when she was five years old. She spent her childhood and teen years chasing thinness and spiralling into anorexia. After recovery she spent years dieting, binging, losing and gaining weight. But then she found body positivity and finally escaped the cult of thin. Now she's determined to let as many people as possible know the truth: that we are all good enough as we are.With her inimitable flair, whip-smart wit and kickass attitude, Megan argues in an entertaining, engaging and accessible way for a new way of seeing ourselves, and a world where every body is celebrated. Where there is no such thing as a 'bikini body diet' and 97% of women don't hate the way they look.A powerful call to arms as much as it is inspirational and practical, this book is the life-changing answer you've been looking for.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first comprehensive guide to enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders in adults. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice. Christopher Fairburn and colleagues describe in detail how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for patients who require hospitalization. Also addressed are frequently encountered co-occurring disorders and how to manage them. Reproducible appendices feature the Eating Disorder Examination interview and questionnaire. CBT-E is recognized as a best practice for the treatment of adult eating disorders by the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).Trade Review"With his evidence-based, 'enhanced' treatment, Fairburn takes CBT to a new level. This book is written explicitly for clinicians, who will find the clearly written, practical guidance invaluable. Of particular interest are the authoritative description of the psychopathology of eating disorders and the lucid analysis of the management and treatment of underweight patients and those with multiple comorbidities. This is the definitive clinical account of CBT for eating disorders."--G. Terence Wilson, PhD, Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey"Over the past 30 years, Fairburn has made immense contributions to our understanding and treatment of patients with eating disorders. This timely, clearly written, immensely informative, and very user-friendly book provides just what the clinician needs--a practical guide to all phases of treatment. Outlining his transdiagnostic model, Fairburn describes the processes that underlie all eating disorders and gives specific examples of how to assess, educate, and help patients with any eating disorder. Treatment is divided into stages, with clear guidelines for exactly what to say or do. This book will quickly become the preferred clinical guide in the eating disorders field. Fairburn and his colleagues should be commended for bringing state-of-the-art research to state-of-the-art practice. Bravo!"--Robert L. Leahy, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital"Another milestone by the field’s foremost pioneer, this book explains how to treat eating disorders in exquisite detail, and does so with a rich theoretical and empirical foundation as its basis. This will be the authoritative volume for many years to come."--Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, Robert L. Flowers Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University"From the most prominent group in the world studying the nature and treatment of eating disorders comes this cutting-edge treatment guide, which spans all eating disorder diagnoses as well as conditions that fall outside current diagnostic criteria. Based on a solid empirical foundation, the transdiagnostic enhanced CBT approach will immediately become the gold standard for the treatment of eating disorders."--David H. Barlow, PhD, ABPP, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University-Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. This Book and How to Use It, Christopher G. Fairburn2. Eating Disorders: The Transdiagnostic View and the Cognitive Behavioral Theory, Christopher G. Fairburn3. Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E): An Overview, Christopher G. Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Roz Shafran4. The Patients: Their Assessment, Preparation for Treatment and Medical Management, Christopher G. Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Deborah Waller Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders: The Core Protocol, Christopher G. Fairburn, Zafra Cooper, Roz Shafran, Kristin Bohn, Deborah M. Hawker, Rebecca Murphy and Suzanne Straebler5. Starting Well6. Achieving Early Change7. Taking Stock and Designing the Rest of Treatment8. Shape Concern, Shape Checking, Feeling Fat and Mindsets9. Dietary Restraint, Dietary Rules and Controlling Eating10. Events, Moods and Eating11. Underweight and Undereating12. Ending WellAdaptations of CBT-E13. Clinical Perfectionism, Core Low Self-Esteem and Interpersonal Problems, Christopher G. Fairburn, Zafra Cooper, Roz Shafran, Kristin Bohn and Deborah M. Hawker14. CBT-E and the Younger Patient, Zafra Cooper and Anne Stewart15. Inpatient, Day Patient and Two Forms of Outpatient CBT-E, Riccardo Dalle Grave, Kristin Bohn, Deborah M. Hawker and Christopher G. Fairburn16. Complex Cases and Comorbidity, Christopher G. Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Deborah WallerPostscript Looking Forward, Christopher G. Fairburn* Appendix A. Eating Disorder Examination (16.0D), Christopher G. Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Marianne E. O'Connor* Appendix B. Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q6.0), Christopher G. Fairburn and Sarah Beglin* Appendix C. Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA 3.0), Kristin Bohn and Christopher G. Fairburn

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Book SynopsisStep-by-step - the proven path to recovery from bulimia nervosaStringent dieting and making yourself vomit after overeating are common features of bulimia nervosa, as are depression, anxiety and feelings of worthlessness. This illness causes great distress to sufferers and those who care about them, but in recent years there have been real advances in treatment.In the fourth edition of this sympathetic and highly acclaimed guide, you will find a clear explanation of the disorder and the serious health issues that can result from it as well as learning about the treatments available today. Most importantly, this book offers a step-by-step programme for those who want to tackle their difficulties.This programme has been found in independent clinical research to be of substantial benefit to people with bulimia nervosa (Psychological Medicine, 2005). This book will also give friends and family a much clearer understanding of the illness and its treatmen

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Book SynopsisMany children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have a restricted dietary range, and this book provides parents with advice and training on how to deal with this condition and achieve a healthier and more balanced diet. Now described as Avoidant or Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), it is due to sensory hypersensitivity, and it can impact upon the health of the child, upon the family, and upon social integration. Based upon successful training packages the authors provide for parents and professionals, this book enables the reader to understand the condition and work with it, gradually increasing the range of food a child is able to eat. It includes 'box outs' with case studies, points of interest and action points to make this an accessible and resourceful read.Trade ReviewHarris and Shea have produced a fantastic resource for parents and professionals alike. Not only does this book give great advice to help children with food refusal and avoidant eating, but also covers the evidence base about the reasons underlying these behaviours in an accessible and enlightening way. -- Prof. Jackie Blissett, Professor of Childhood Eating Behaviour, Aston University, UKAn important book full of information for professionals and parents who deal with 'fussy eaters' (many of them are on the autism spectrum). A useful read if you want to learn more about why some children (and adults) have problems related to food and the best strategies to successfully manage this. -- Olga Bogdashina, author, lecturer in Autism Studies, co-founder of the International Consortium of Autism InstitutesThis excellent book provides parents with detailed advice on how to help children with a restricted food range achieve a healthier and more balanced diet... The authors, who have both worked extensively with children with food refusal disorders, show the reader how to work with the condition in a child-centred way and gradually increase the food range a child can eat, with different interventions recommended according to age. * Human Givens Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. Introduction To Part 1; 1. The Early Stages; 2. Neophobia; The Onset Of The Fear Of New And Different Foods; 3. Sensory Factors And How These Affect Food Acceptance; 4. The Disgust Response And The Development Of Avoidant Eating; 5. Appetite And Appetite Regulation; 6. What Is Avoidant And Restrictive Food Intake Disorder?; PART II. Introduction To Part 2; 7. Managing The Environment Around The Child; 8. Is The Child Reasdy To Move On?; 9. What Doesn't Work And Why; 10. Interventions With The Younger Child; 11. Interventions With The Older Child; 12. What Else Might Be Going Wrong?; Bibliography; Resources

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Book SynopsisEver wondered what it's like living with a brain that's trying to kill you? If you've struggled with an eating disorder, you'll know exactly how that feels. This book follows an ordinary girl on one of the most extraordinary and difficult journeys of her life: going into inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa. More than just a memoir, The Weapon of Choice is about what it's like to have an eating disorder, and more importantly, what happens when you try to live without it. The time spent in an eating disorder ward can be dull, painful, surreal, and even sometimes, downright hilarious. Sophia offers a candid, honest insight into the daily struggles of life in an eating disorder unit, telling the story of how it's possible to go from rock bottom to a much brighter place. This book is for anyone interested in eating disorders, whether you're suffering with one yourself, caring for a loved one, or working with patients in a clinical setting.

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Book SynopsisPresenting an effective treatment approach specifically tailored to the unique challenges of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), this book is grounded in state-of-the-art research. The authors are experts on BDD and related conditions. They describe ways to engage patients who believe they have defects or flaws in their appearance. Provided are clear-cut strategies for helping patients overcome the self-defeating thoughts, impairments in functioning, and sometimes dangerous ritualistic behaviors that characterize BDD. Clinician-friendly features include step-by-step instructions for conducting each session and more than 50 reproducible handouts and forms; the large-size format facilitates photocopying.See also the related self-help guide by Dr. Wilhelm, Feeling Good about the Way You Look, an ideal recommendation for clients with BDD or less severe body image problems.Trade Review"BDD entails substantial suffering and requires skilled therapeutic intervention. This unique treatment manual lives up to the stellar reputations of Wilhelm, Phillips, and Steketee. Their systematic treatment is science based, clinically informed, and practitioner friendly. The manual is generous in its provision of reproducible handouts and assessment tools, and it wisely guides therapy that is tailored to the individual client’s needs."--Thomas F. Cash, PhD, Department of Psychology (Emeritus), Old Dominion University"Wilhelm, Phillips, and Steketee are among a small handful of internationally recognized authorities on the etiology and treatment of BDD and related conditions. It is next to impossible to think of a better qualified group of authors for this definitive treatment manual."--David B. Sarwer, PhD, Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania"BDD is a common and often crippling psychiatric disorder, yet too frequently it is not diagnosed or not competently treated. This book fills a critical niche by providing concrete, hands-on guidance for conducting state-of-the-art cognitive-behavioral therapy for BDD. The guidelines in this book will be accessible and useful for a wide range of readers, from students just beginning their training in behavioral therapies to seasoned professionals who are already experienced with BDD. An invaluable addition to the field."--Harrison G. Pope Jr., MD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School"This essential, richly detailed guide is written at a level of specificity that will enable even the clinician new to working with BDD to be comfortable implementing the strategies. The manual also provides a concise review of the scientific basis for the approach. All clinicians who treat patients with BDD or other clinically meaningful body image disturbances now have a go-to guide to add to their clinical bookshelves."--J. Kevin Thompson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida"Helping patients accept that their problem is psychological rather than medical is a daunting prospect that is at the heart of treatment for BDD. This book encapsulates the wisdom from extensive clinical experience. It provides the therapist with an evidence-based map for navigating the challenges of this disorder, and has relevance for treating other obsessive-compulsive problems as well."--Janet Treasure, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, Director, Eating Disorders Research Unit, Kings College London, United Kingdom"BDD is a common and often crippling psychiatric disorder, yet too frequently it is not diagnosed or not competently treated. This book fills a critical niche by providing concrete, hands-on guidance for conducting state-of-the-art cognitive-behavioral therapy for BDD. The guidelines in this book will be accessible and useful for a wide range of readers, from students just beginning their training in behavioral therapies to seasoned professionals who are already experienced with BDD. An invaluable addition to the field." - Harrison G. Pope Jr., MD, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School"Helping patients accept that their problem is psychological rather than medical is a daunting prospect that is at the heart of treatment for BDD. This book encapsulates the wisdom from extensive clinical experience. It provides the therapist with an evidence-based map for navigating the challenges of this disorder, and has relevance for treating other obsessive-compulsive and somatizing problems as well." - Janet Treasure, Kings College London, UK"BDD entails substantial suffering and requires skilled therapeutic intervention. This unique treatment manual lives up to the stellar reputations of Wilhelm, Phillips, and Steketee. Their systematic treatment is science based, clinically informed, and practitioner friendly. The manual is generous in its provision of reproducible handouts and assessment tools, and it wisely guides therapy that is tailored to the individual client’s needs." - Thomas F. Cash, Old Dominion University, Virginia, USAThis essential, richly detailed guide is written at a level of specificity that will enable even the clinician new to working with BDD to be comfortable implementing the strategies. The manual also provides a concise review of the scientific basis for the approach. All clinicians who treat patients with BDD or other clinically meaningful body image disturbances now have a go-to guide to add to their clinical bookshelves." - J. Kevin Thompson, PhD, University of South Florida, USATable of ContentsI. Fundamentals of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Its Treatment1. Introduction to BDD 2. Treatment Overview and Roadmap3. Special Considerations in Treating Patients with BDD4. Diagnosing and Assessing BDD and Associated Symptoms5. Enhancing MotivationII. Introductory Sessions: Laying the Foundation for Successful Treatment6. Session 1: Assessing BDD, Orienting the Patient to CBT-BDD, and Assessing Motivation7. Session 2: Education and Case Formulation8. Session 3: Setting Goals, Describing CBT-BDD, and Assessing ThoughtsIII. Core Treatment Components9. Sessions 4-5: Evaluating Self-Defeating Thoughts 10. Session 6: Introducing Exposure 11. Sessions 7-9: Adding Ritual Prevention12. Session 10: Perceptual Retraining for Mirror Checking 13. Sessions 11-20: Introducing Advanced Cognitive Strategies and Moving Forward 14. Termination Sessions, Relapse Prevention, and Booster SessionsIV. Optional Modules for Patients with Relevant Symptoms15. Skin Picking and Hair Pulling 16. Weight, Shape, and Muscularity 17. Cosmetic Treatment 18. Depression

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Book SynopsisBased on the authors'' pioneering work and up-to-date research at London''s Maudsley hospital, A Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa provides adults with anorexia nervosa and the professionals working alongside them with a practical resource to work through together.The approach described is recommended by the National Institute of Clinical and Care Excellence (NICE) as a first-line, evidence-based treatment for adults with anorexia nervosa. A Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa provides adults with anorexia nervosa and the professionals working alongside them with a practical resource to work through together.The manual is divided into accessible modules, providing a co-ordinated, step-by-step guide to recovery. Modules include: Nutrition Developing treatment goals Exploring thinking styles Developing an identity beyonTrade ReviewThe authors are amongst the most experienced clinician-researchers in the field of eating disorders. With the publication of A Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa: The Maudsley Model, they bring their treatment for anorexia nervosa to you. Whether you work through the workbook on your own or together with a therapist, you will be benefitting from the wisdom that can only come from decades of clinical experience. The treatment approach and workbook emerged from listening carefully to patients and carers in order to understand their perspective and their needs for a successful treatment. The book carefully walks you down a path of recovery, richly augmenting text with exercises and illustrations to engage you in the process of achieving wellness. By including true stories from people who have recovered, the authors invite you to enter the recovery space of those who have successfully overcome the burden of anorexia nervosa. They will help you transform your vicious flower of illness into a virtuous flower of recovery and help you to write your own story of who you can and will be once you leave anorexia nervosa behind. You will experience their empathy and understanding in every chapter of this book. A Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa: The Maudsley Model is an important evidence-based tool that is indispensable to your recovery journey. Professor Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED, Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden It gives me great pleasure to provide this endorsement of the MANTRA workbook. Working with people who are simultaneously embracing and battling anorexia nervosa is one of the hardest types of therapy I have encountered in thirty years of practice as a clinical psychologist across a number of clinical settings and conditions. When I first came across the emerging MANTRA approach in 2003, it was like a breath of fresh and invigorating air. It provided a validating and respectful approach, utilized the principles of motivational interviewing in the way material was presented, contained clear connections between the evidence and inclusion of a range of modules, and was associated with creative and engaging exercises that allowed for inclusion of collaborative work with a therapist. Many years have now passed, and a body of solid evidence for the usefulness of MANTRA with anorexia nervosa has accumulated, such that it is now one of three recommended adult outpatient treatments in the 2017 NICE guidelines. This published workbook now gives people with lived experience of anorexia nervosa and therapists alike easy access to MANTRA by providing: Logically sequenced creative and self-reflective exercises that encourage the person with anorexia nervosa to develop an observer’s point of view and see the bigger picture, thus freeing them up to make different choices about how they respond to the anorexia nervosa; Clear advice and tips based on best-practice and informed by emerging research; Illustrative examples from people’s experiences with feeling confused by, and overwhelmed with, anorexia nervosa, and making inroads against this destructive disease. It is certainly my clinical experience with this workbook that people with anorexia nervosa find it engaging, challenging, and promoting self-efficacy and optimism for a future that involves a healthier and richer life that has expanded well beyond the confines of control over food and weight. It should certainly be on every clinician’s shelf if they working with this group of people. Professor Tracey Wade, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Background to MANTRA Chapter 2 Getting Started Chapter 3 No (Wo)Man is an Island – Working with Support Chapter 4 Improving Your Nutritional Health Chapter 5 My Anorexia Nervosa: Why, What and How? Chapter 6 Developing Treatment Goals Chapter 7 The Emotional and Social Mind Chapter 8 Exploring Thinking Styles Chapter 9 Identity Chapter 10 The Virtuous Flower of Recovery from Anorexia Appendix 1 Worksheets for Supporters Appendix 2 Writing in Therapy- Information Sheet Appendix 3 Writing Experiment Sheet Appendix 4 Traffic Light Relapse Prevention Plan

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book gives clinicians a new set of tools for helping people overcome binge-eating disorder and bulimia. It presents an adaptation of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) developed expressly for this population. The treatment is unique in approaching disordered eating as a problem of emotional dysregulation. Featuring vivid case examples and 32 reproducible handouts and forms, the book shows how to put an end to binge eating and purging by teaching clients more adaptive ways to manage painful emotions. Step-by-step guidelines are provided for implementing DBT skills training in mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance, including a specially tailored skill, mindful eating. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible handouts and forms in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size. See also the related self-help guide, The DBT Solution for Emotional Eating, by Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson,Trade Review"Safer et al. have done pioneering work adapting DBT to the treatment of eating disorders. This book provides a comprehensive yet practical and user-friendly guide for clinicians working with these patients. The authors are to be congratulated for providing a mechanism for the dissemination of this empirically validated treatment. Very highly recommended."--James E. Mitchell, MD, The Lee A. Christoferson Chair in Neuroscience Research and Chester Fritz Distinguished University Professor, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences "This well-written book, which has been eagerly awaited by both the DBT and eating disorders communities, is a real gem to add to any clinician's shelf. It will be equally useful to DBT-trained clinicians and to others interested in empirically validated treatments for bulimia and binge-eating disorder. The book has immense instructional potential. Session-by-session descriptions of the treatment will help trainees feel as though they are 'doing it right,' even with their first patient."--Lucene Wisniewski, PhD, Clinical Director, Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders "DBT has shown promise for treating disordered eating, but a detailed manual that describes how to adapt DBT protocols for this population has been sorely needed by clinicians and treatment researchers. Safer, Telch, and Chen, three distinguished experts, have succeeded in meeting this important need."--Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children's Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco; Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago "This book will be a helpful resource for clinicians who treat eating disorders but who are not yet trained in DBT, as well as those who are already familiar with DBT. It offers clear instructions for meeting the treatment needs of people with bulimia and binge-eating disorder. Clinicians can readily pick up and use this manual with their clients."--Shari Manning, PhD, President, Behavioral Tech, LLC; Department of Psychology, University of Washington - The authors present a well-written and practical approach to the treatment of bulimia nervosa and binge eating. They cover rationale for the use of DBT in this population and clearly define assessment and implementation of the skills of Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance. Each of these skills has an excellent description of how to present material in a group format, including potential exercises....The authors also interject excellent case material throughout the book that helps the reader understand how the strategies can be successfully administered. Additionally, the final chapters review the potential for DBT with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and the future directions of this intervention. Overall, this is a highly readable and well-organized book that helps those interested in treating bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder to develop new skills in treatment. --Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 5/22/2009ƒƒ A much needed resource for professionals treating eating disorders. It very clearly details another effective, evidence-based treatment for BED and BN. Those therapists with a firm understanding of CBT and DBT could use this book to adapt their skills to treat clients with eating disorders. Those who already treat eating disorders could, with a commitment to understanding all of the skills and techniques of DBT, use this book to augment their armamentarium and improve their efficacy in treating this difficult population. --Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 5/22/2009ƒƒ The book aims to be useful to both therapists trained in DBT with little or no experience of working with eating disorders and therapists working with eating disorders with no experience of DBT....Each chapter suggests homework practice and therapist interventions, with an array of handouts and worksheets to support and enhance the work being done in therapy. The book offers useful case study accounts, which illustrate the model and its techniques and structure. This book is a must-have for anyone working with eating disordered behaviours. --Addiction Today, 5/22/2009ƒƒ Well written and easy to read, and is a useful resource for practitioners, researchers, and students. In particular, this book will be helpful for those who have experience with DBT but have little knowledge of eating disorders, in addition to those who are seasoned in treating eating disorders but are not trained in DBT....The step-by-step guidelines, discussion points, and case examples are refreshing and informative. The authors should be congratulated for staying adherent to DBT while also adapting the skills discussed and the handouts to be used, targeting them for individuals with BED or BN....A refreshing and extremely well-written book....The combination of illustrative case examples, experiential exercises to increase mindful eating, discussion points, and handouts, serves to help clinicians actually apply this treatment, not just read about it. I highly recommend this book for clinicians looking to apply DBT to clients with binge-eating disorder or bulimia, as this groundbreaking work is a valuable merger of DBT and treatment for eating disorders. --PsycCRITIQUES, 5/22/2009Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Binge-Eating Disorder and Bulimia Nervosa: Why Dialectical Behavior Therapy? 2. Orientation for Therapists 3. The Pretreatment Stage: The Pretreatment Interview and Introductory Sessions 4. Mindfulness Core Skills 5. Emotion Regulation Skills 6. Distress Tolerance Skills 7. Final Sessions: Review and Relapse Prevention 8. Illustrative Case Examples 9. Future Directions Appendix. Information for Researchers

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Book SynopsisAn innovative and customisable n 8-week plan to help you take control of your eating habits-once and for all.Do you feel like your eating gets out of control? When it comes to food, does it feel like your life is controlled by cycles of deprivation and bingeing? Whether or not you've been formally diagnosed with a binge-eating disorder, you know that something needs to change. But like many disorders, what helps one person may not help another. That's why The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help you take charge of your eating habits. Using the eight-week protocol in this workbook, you'll learn how to recognise your triggers, cope with difficult emotions, improve relationships, and make healthy food choices that will ultimately improve how you feel. You'll learn to understand the underlying causes of your binge eating, how to recognise binge-inducing environmental factors, why dieting just doesn't work, and mindfulness techniques to help you stay present when the urge to binge takes hold.If you're ready to break the shame-filled cycle of binge eating, this workbook has everything you need to get started today.

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Book SynopsisBased on the popular anti-diet program, Intuitive Eating, this guided companion will help you pay attention to your body’s natural hunger cues, and develop a healthier relationship with food. Do you use food to comfort yourself during stressful times? Do you deny yourself the pleasure of eating because it causes you to feel guilt or shame? You aren’t alone. Many people today have a complicated and difficult relationship with food. But there is a way to change. Intuitive Eating is a comprehensive, evidence-based program to help you pay attention to your natural cues of hunger and satisfaction, and cultivate a profound connection with your mind and body. This illustrated journal will give you all the tools you need for eating intuitively, and will show you that you are the expert of your own body. You’ll also discover ways to distinguish between physical and emotional feelings, and make peace with food—so that you no longer have constant ‘food worry’ thoughts. Most importantly, you’ll find powerful writing prompts to help you explore yourself as a whole person—regardless of what you eat. Now is the time to move beyond diet mentality, honor your hunger, and make peace with food—and yourself. This journal will help guide the way.

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Book SynopsisFrom comfort eating and skipping meals to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, disordered eating comes in many forms. With expert advice from an experienced psychologist, this book will help you get back on track and get the help you need. Break bad habits and replace them with better ones; understand your issues so that you can move forward; and learn to overcome your fears, love your body and discover how to enjoy food again.

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Book SynopsisDO YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT?HAVE YOU TRIED DIETS AND FAILED?DO YOU WANT A COMPLETELY NEW APPROACH?A Gastric Band is a radical, surgical operation that reduces the available space in the stomach. Paul McKenna’s Hypnotic Gastric Band is a psychological procedure that can help to convince the unconscious mind that a gastric band has been fitted, so the body behaves exactly as if it were physically present.HOW DOES IT WORK?Along with the book, the system contains a free audio hypnosis session and video download instructions to provide complete support for physical and psychological change whilst you lose weight. There’s no physical surgery, no scarring and no forbidden foods. Just follow all the instructions and let Paul help you lose weight.Trade ReviewAn amazing new approach that promises weight loss for good! * Dr Ronald Ruden, MD, PhD *This book may save the National Health Service millions of pounds - it offers people a safer, non-invasive method of significant weight loss * Dr Michael Carmi, MB, ChB, FRCGP *

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Book SynopsisIn this classic text, originally published in 1986, Susie Orbach brilliantly examines the anorectic's struggle. Anorexia is a battle; a battle to be thin; a battle of wills, denial versus desire. It is also about control; by conquering feelings of hunger, the anorectic woman aspires to conquer her emotional feelings as well. For Orbach, the struggle goes further. In this brilliant examination of women and eating disorders, she asserts that the complex relationship between women and food signifies women's battle for autonomy. Women's bodies are both private and public property. Society demands and expects women to look a certain way, to not take up too much space, to be self-effacing and mindful of others. Yet anorexia, whilst an extreme method of conforming to such demands, is conversely a rebellion against such ideas. It is the ultimate control over self, a cry of protest, a hunger strike against the contradictory and overwhelming demands placed on women in contemporary society.Also discussed are attitudes towards eating problems, and how they have changed over recent years, and an innovative approach to residential treatment. This book provides a highly original insight into the underlying causes of eating disorders.Trade Review'A much-needed antidote to the unsympathetic views often aroused by anorexia nervosa.' - The Times Literary Supplement'Ms Orbach extends the feminist analysis systemically, convincingly and movingly to portray the anorexic struggle as a "metaphor of our age".'- The New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsForeword -- Introduction to the 1986 Edition -- Introduction to the 1993 Edition -- Part I -- Anorexia: Metaphor for our Time -- Situating Anorexia -- Starving Amidst Plenty -- The Breeding of Body Insecurity -- Hunger Strike -- Part II -- Towards a Model of Self-help: Themes to be Considered and Tackled -- Bridging the Chasm -- Food: From Poison to Palatable -- Focusing on the Body: The Corporeal Sense of Self -- Behind the Defence -- Medical Issues -- Afterword

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Book SynopsisToxic. Unexplainable. Deadly. This is the reality of living with a mental illness. When your mind becomes your own killer, death seems like a sweet release. This gripping and heart-wrenching story reveals the brutal reality of life with an eating disorder. Stephanie Shott is a bright and life-loving young woman who has had to deal with all the horror and difficulty of anorexia. In this moving and inspirational book, ‘Just Keep Swimming’, Stephanie bravely and boldly opens herself up to the reader and tells her story. This harrowing story of dealing with anorexia and beating it is engrossing, disturbing and utterly inspirational.

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Book SynopsisAvoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a new diagnosis commonly encountered by a range of health care professionals, yet currently no standard of care exists. This book outlines a new cognitive-behavioral treatment for patients with ARFID that has been developed in response to this urgent clinical need.Trade Review'This practical, accessible manual, written by two of the leading experts in the emerging avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) field, will be a very welcome addition to the clinician's library. I anticipate that it will quickly become a much used volume by anyone offering care and treatment to patents with this disorder. Until now there has been very little by way of guidance in terms of evidence based treatments specifically for ARFID. This clearly written book, based on sound theoretical principles, enables the outstanding skills, expertise and insights of its authors to be shared by a much wider audience, which can only benefit patient care.' Rachel Bryant-Waugh, Head of the Feeding and Eating Disorders Service, the Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (DCAMH), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children'It is rare that a newly conceptualized mental disorder is introduced into systems of nosology without an existing treatment approach with some evidence for efficacy; but, this was the case with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). Now, from one of the leading eating disorders centers in the world comes a very well-conceived stage model of intervention that can be personalized for the individual patient, as well as the patient's family. Anyone treating eating disorders should find this new clinical manual invaluable.' David H. Barlow, Boston University'Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) sounds a little less unfamiliar today than when it was introduced by DSM-5 only five years ago. Since then, a small cadre of clinical researchers has devoted considerable energy to explore treatments for this patient population. Thomas and Eddy have been leaders in this domain. Through their focused efforts, the authors have put together an extraordinarily helpful treatment manual that everyone who wants to learn more about ARFID, whether a treating clinician, curious trainee, or worried parent, would be well advised to consult. This clinician manual first provides the reader with an excellent psycho-educational overview of ARFID, before delineating the four stages of CBT-AR. The authors round out this manual by demonstrating their treatment approach by way of five elucidating clinical case examples. This book is a most welcome addition to the small family of clinical treatment manuals for eating disorders.' Daniel Le Grange, University of California, San Francisco'As an ARFID advocate, author on the topic, and mother to a recovered child with ARFID, I couldn't be more thrilled with this book. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder is vital toward the education and treatment of ARFID. With comprehensive and detailed information, workable steps for treatment, and actual case studies, this book is desperately needed in the eating disorder community, and one that I wish had been available when our family was struggling to find answers. There is much to learn about ARFID, but this manual is a terrific starting point in helping clinicians, physicians, therapists, and even parents learn more about this very prevalent and very mysterious eating disorder that affects children and adults of all ages.' Stephanie Elliot, ARFID advocate, author of Sad Perfect'This book is important. For the first time we have a detailed yet comprehensive account of how to treat patients with 'avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder'. The authors are to be congratulated on producing this invaluable resource.' Christopher G. Fairburn, University of OxfordTable of ContentsDedication; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. What is ARFID?; 2. Overview of existing treatments for feeding, eating, and anxiety disorders; 3. Assessment of ARFID; 4. Cognitive-behavioral model of ARFID; 5. Overview of CBT-AR; 6. Stage 1: Psychoeducation and early change; 7. Stage 2: treatment planning; 8. Stage 3: maintaining mechanisms in order of priority; 9. Stage 4: relapse prevention; 10. CBT-AR case examples; 11. Conclusion and future directions; Appendix 1: CBT-AR competence ratings; Appendix 2: CBT-AR adherence: session-by-session ratings; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe go-to reference and practice guide for using motivational interviewing (MI) to enhance conversations about nutrition and fitness is now in a thoroughly revised second edition with 70% new material. Easy to incorporate into everyday interactions, MI offers simple yet powerful tools for helping clients work through ambivalence, break free of diets and quick-fix solutions, and overcome barriers to change. Extensive sample dialogues illustrate the dos and don'ts of counseling clients about meal planning and preparation, exercise, body image, disordered eating, and more. Supplemental reproducible handouts can be downloaded and printed from the companion website. In addition, instructors who adopt the book for courses receive access to PowerPoint slides, worksheets, and exam questions. New to This Edition *Chapters on medical nutrition therapy, health coaching, follow-up sessions, and counselor health and boundaries. *Restructured to reflect developments in MI and the authors' training approach; includes new and revised sample dialogues. *Increased attention to weight stigma and social determinants of health, such as racism and unequal access to health care. *Expanded companion website, now including resource links and an online-only chapter, What to Do When There's Little Time, in addition to 21 handouts. This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.

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Book SynopsisI haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does.At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.Having met the man of her dreams (and wanting a future and a baby together), she embarked on the hardest struggle of all: to beat anorexia. It was time to start eating again, to regain her fertility and her curves, to throw out the size-zero clothes and face her food fears. And, as if that wasn't enough pressure, Emma took the decision to write about her progress in a weekly column for The Times.Honest, hard hitting and yet romantic, An Apple a Day is a manifesto for the modern generation to stop starving and start living.This compelling, life-affirming true story is essential reading for anyone affected by eating disorders (whether as a sufferer or carer), anyone interested in health and social issues - and for medical and health professionals.Trade ReviewIn An Apple a Day Emma comes across as brave, real and determined. I'm sure that in sharing her story many others will be encouraged to speak out from the stigma of this horrible illness and realise that there is a life worth living beyond calorie counts and scales. It is a battle worth fighting. * Grace Bowman, author of 'Thin' *There is one non-fiction book which I can honestly say went some way towards saving my life... I offer up almost daily, silent, thanks to Emma Woolf for being brave enough to tell her story which made me brave enough to face up to mine. * http://marthameg.wordpress.com/ *... Giving a clear insight into the feelings that underpin this complex disorder, Emma also shines a light on addiction generally; the self-destructive and self-sabotaging tendencies that go hand in hand with poor self-worth and skewed perspective... Eloquent, profoundly moving, romantic and, at times, shockingly candid, Emma's fearless and honest account is ultimately one of hope. * Spirit FM Book Club *a compelling account of anorexia which in deceptively simple style, really gets under the skin of why people starve themselves. Woolf, the great-niece of Virginia, has already charted her progress in a weekly column for the Times which received a huge response from fellow sufferers and their loved ones. * The Bookseller *An Apple a Day tells a powerful story, heart warming and heart rending by turns. It is ultimately a story filled with hope, and Emma Woolf's moving, deeply personal account of her journey out of anorexia will bring that hope to so many more people trapped by this dreadful illness. * Susan Ringwood (Chief Executive, Beat) *Frank and compelling... made me understand anorexia in a way I never have before. * BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour *Having gone through both the disease and the recovery at one time myself, I share her conviction that we need more understanding of this complicated condition. Stories of survival from those who have suffered with the illness need to be brought forward if we are to one day unlock this chamber of secrets. * PinkVox.com - Joanna Patricia Caveney *If you read one thing this year, make it An Apple a Day. * Pop Goes Culture Blog *In this heartfelt look at the causes of her eating disorder, Woolf emphatically states that her anorexia was not the result of striving to look good based on unrealistic media images but rather a mental illness based on her need for control... As Woolf walked through her personal process of self-discovery and change in her newspaper columns, she touched a chord with fellow sufferers, their families and their therapists, whose responses she includes. Her perceptive and articulate account is frank about the mental torment she endured without being morose. Insightful and informative, with fresh insights into the nature of eating disorders. * Kirkus *Love your column... Read it religiously. Very positive. And brave. * Twitter follower *So much more than a memoir... told through touching prose about her relationships and career. It's such a compelling read, you may well be glued to the book until the final page. * Healthy *The contrast between her privileged life and her personal misery is strikingly established in this book before she begins to deal positively with her long-standing 'addiction to hunger'... 'Coming out' about her condition and narrating the process of recovery has been as much agony as therapy, but it has been a needful exercise for the writer and her support group of readers. * The Times *The title of her book is laced with irony: an apple a day does not keep the doctor away if that is all you are eating... her words are neatly woven, not sentimental - the account of the life and love of a thirty-something woman... It could be any of us. Some of the most interesting passages are about how she 'outed' herself, first to her boyfriend, Tom, and later to readers of The Times, in a popular column which continues each Tuesday... Just a few weeks ago she ate her first chocolate bar in 15 years. * The Islington Tribune *There are many books written by people who have struggled with anorexia. Perhaps every heroic journey deserves the right to be heard especially by others who suffer, to know that they are not alone. By the same token these books need to be read by healers who seek to guide sufferers into a different way of life. Emma's book however differs from all the others I have read. It is not just Emma's elegant way with words, it is also her ability to document her thoughts and behaviour while also exposing them to her own insightful analysis and curiosity. I felt humbled, never having quite realized, despite my years of experience, the extent to which this illness can hold someone hostage to its power even when it is held up to the light of intense and public scrutiny. The one take-home message brought home to the reader is that healing anorexia is little to do with gaining weight; this will reduce some of the symptoms while at the same time making other life experiences feel infinitely more dangerous - like emerging feelings and the challenges of sharing your life with other people. It also proves that anorexia can only be properly faced, fought and even hopefully mastered when weight isn't dangerously low. I will recommend Emma's personal account to every therapist I train, while wishing her the happy ending she so clearly deserves. * Deanne Jade, psychologist and founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders *It helped me though my experience of filming To The Bone.... It gave me the guidance to tell my story * Lily Collins, actress and model, in Red Magazine *Woolf bravely and publicly catalogues her journey to recovery from her eating disorder. It is very inspiring. * Lily Collins, actress and model in Sunday Telegraph’s Stella Magazine *Featured in Harper's BAZAAR, July 2012 * Harper's Bazaar *Featured in Psychologies magazine, September 2012 * Psychologies *Featured on BBC 2's Newsnight, 31 July 2012 * BBC 2's Newsnight *Featured on BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour * BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour *

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Book SynopsisEating disorders are complicated and personal, but so many books avoid going into what recovery really feels like. How do you manage setbacks? What about reclaiming your identity when an eating disorder has felt so intrinsic to who you are? How are you supposed to cope at work or when you''re travelling?This book guides you through the realities of eating disorder recovery, from an author who''s lived it. From advice on body image and handling other people''s opinions, to navigating holidays and unexpected emotions that crop up during recovery, it takes you step-by-step through the realities of recovery and helps you to make positive, sustainable progress.Whether you''re just starting your recovery, looking for help to stay motivated, or supporting a loved one, this guide will show you how to avoid pitfalls with practical advice from someone who''s really been there.

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between autism and eating disorders is often overlooked or misunderstood. Written by two experienced clinicians working with young people, Autism and Eating Disorders in Teens covers topics including identification of both conditions, diagnosis and the recovery process, challenging current thinking and promoting new ways of working to promote treatment and awareness. Autism and eating disorders often present in similar ways, whether through restrictive or selective eating behaviours, or rigid or obsessive thought patterns. As a result, individuals may receive treatment for one condition with the other - although present - going undiagnosed. This is a practical guide for the adults supporting this group of teens, recommending changes in policy and practice in order to improve the care of young people experiencing these conditions. Drawing on in-depth case studies highlighting the need for young people and their families to feel understood and listened to, the authors show how we can empower these young people to reach their full emotional and physical potential.Trade ReviewParents, professionals and those who have autism will appreciate this practical and comprehensive guide to understanding the association between autism and eating disorders, and the modifications to therapy that are needed to accommodate the characteristics of autism. This guide will provide much food for thought. -- Tony Attwood, Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, AustraliaA brilliant work... a definite must read for clinicians from both fields of expertise and everyone who is or have a loved one struggling with eating difficulties. It inspires us to think flexibly, to adapt practice, to listen but mostly to work alongside with the individual respecting who they are and what recovery means to them and their family. -- Paola Falcoski MSc, Advanced Specialist Eating Disorders DietitianWritten by an autistic spectrum condition nurse specialist and a dietician specialising in paediatric eating disorders, the book covers topics such as identification of both conditions, diagnosis and recovery, along the way challenging current thinking and promoting new ways of working. Drawing on in-depth case studies highlighting the need for young people and their families to feel understood and listened to, the authors show how, through changes at practice and policy level, these young people can be empowered. * Human Givens Journal *

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Book SynopsisEating disorders are serious conditions that can be hard to treat; however, the chances of overcoming an eating disorder increase when exposure therapy is used as part of the overall treatment strategy. Exposure therapy involves confronting (rather than avoiding) challenging scenarios that evoke distress, and though this technique has typically been used mainly by psychotherapists, people struggling with eating disorders can use it on their own to reduce troubling eating behaviors. Eat Without Fear provides practical, reader-friendly information about this innovative, scientifically-supported approach, as well as guidance on how to apply it effectively to beat an eating disorder using a team approach that involves family members, friends, and other loved ones. Readers will benefit from the use of easy-to-understand language describing the key concepts of eating disorders and how exposure therapy can help treat them. Additionally, the book guides readers through therapeutic activities t

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Book SynopsisHow does food make you feel?If it''s a source of guilt, shame, or punishment, have you ever stopped to ask why?We''ve become so used to the concept of ''good'' and ''bad'' foods that we barely notice the drastic statement we''re making when we say we are a bad person for eating something sweet. In FOOD THERAPY, Pixie Turner presents a new approach to our relationship with food. Instead of focusing on rules, reduction and restriction, this practical book will help you uncover the psychological roots of your eating habits - and introduce you to a new mindset that will free you from a destructive relationship with food. Whether you struggle with disordered eating, body image problems, or feel trapped by diet culture, Pixie''s experience as a registered nutritionist and psychotherapist allows her to guide you through how your feelings affect what you eat. By showing how our eating habits are often an attempt at solving underlying problems, and how to faTrade ReviewEssential reading for your mental and physical health - I am beyond happy that this book finally exists. Anything Pixie Turner touches will make you feel better, and reading this book is like seeing a new therapist. There isn't a human being on this Earth who doesn't need to read this book. The only thing that could make this book better is if I had been able to read it when I was a lot younger -- Sofie Hagen, author of HAPPY FAT and host of WHO HURT YOU

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Book SynopsisThe highly respected and widely known Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Sufferers and Friends was written in 1997. This long-awaited new edition builds on the work of the first book, providing essential new and updated research outcomes on anorexia nervosa. It offers a unique insight and guidance into the recovery process for those who suffer from an eating disorder as well as advice and information for their loved ones. Written collaboratively by both an expert in the field and someone with personal experience of eating disorders, this book offers exceptional understanding of the issues surrounding the illness. Divided into four sections, it includes: an outline of anorexia nervosa coping strategies for sufferers advice and information for families, carers and friends guidelines for professionals who are involved in the sufferer's life. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. About the Authors. Section I: An Overview. What is Anorexia Nervosa? Avoid the Blame Game. Centuries of Trying to Understand Food Refusal. Section II: For Sufferers. Starting the Recovery Journey. Understanding Your Self. The Dangers of Anorexia Nervosa. Body Composition and Nutrition. Digging Deeper: Understanding Personality Patterns. Links in Generations. Recovery IS Possible. Section III: For Families, Carers and Friends. Helping to Eliminate the Eating Disorder. Pulling Together as a Family. Confronting the Eating Challenge. Recovery is More Than Gaining Weight. Section IV: Guidelines for Professionals. Guidelines for Therapists and Carers. The Family Doctor – Making a Diagnosis. Guidelines for School Staff. Where to get Support. Appendix.

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Book SynopsisThe book illustrates how parents who are participating in family-based treatment (FBT) for their child's eating disorder (ED) may enhance their chances of achieving optimal outcomes for their child by more successfully navigating the challenges that often impede progress in treatment and recovery.The stance of the book is transdiagnostic, so that the information provided spans all ED diagnoses including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and atypical ED presentations as well as conditions that fall outside current diagnostic criteria. This book aims to help parents identify how they can make the most out of FBT therapy no matter which ED symptoms their child experiences. Case vignettes across the diagnostic and clinical spectrum are used liberally throughout the book, not only to illustrate examples of some of the specific challenges families face, but to help parents normalize the emotions they may feel around their experience of trying to help their child and around their experience of participating in the FBT intervention itself. A respectful and supportive tone makes this resource accessible and jargon-free for parents, and provides useful information and approaches for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and allied health practitioners who deliver FBT to young people and families.Trade Review"This is the book I've been waiting for—the definitive guide to implementing family-based treatment (FBT) at home, by the top experts in the field! Whether your child has anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, this book will be your lifeline. Making Family-Based Treatment For Eating Disorders Piece by Piece picks up where weekly therapy sessions end and real life begins, with genuine validation, practical advice, realistic case examples, and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations. I will be recommending it to all of my FBT families."Jennifer J. Thomas, PhD, co-director, Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; associate professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; immediate past president, Academiy for Eating Disorders"Every parent undergoing FBT will want to read this book. It covers the most challenging scenarios illustrated by real examples from families including how to separate the illness from your child, how to stay aligned with your refeeding partner, and how to handle big emotions such as self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Examples are provided for all types of eating disorders. This comprehensive resource is a valuable follow up to 'Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder', and provides more in-depth solutions to some of the most common pitfalls encountered during FBT. Clinicians who provide FBT will also find this book extremely helpful." Jennifer Couturier, MD, MSc, FRCPC, medical co-director Eating Disorders Program, McMaster Children's Hospital; associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada "Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is the best available, quickest acting intervention for eating disorders in adolescents. Whilst FBT may not work for everyone, an effective 'dose' of FBT as soon as possible after diagnosis confers the best prognosis. This book, based on over 20 years of clinical research experience of delivering and studying FBT, addresses the doubts, anxieties and challenges parents commonly experience when implementing FBT. Written by experts, full of empathy and understanding, and underpinned by science, this book is a 'call to arms' for parents and clinicians about why trying and persisting with FBT is the best first line strategy in combatting these potentially devastating disorders. Real world examples, in the form of brief vignettes, illustrate each of the topics across the full range of eating disorder diagnoses: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. I recommend this book as essential reading for all parents of adolescents newly diagnosed with an eating disorder." Dascha Nicholls, professor, Imperial College London; national specialist advisor on eating disorders, NHS England; past president, Academic for Eating DisordersTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The First Challenge: Taking Immediate and Decisive Action 2. The Madness of Causes: Losing Focus by Trying to Figure Out Why the Eating Disorder Developed 3. Working Together: When We are in a Lifeboat, We All Need to Row Together 4. Big Feelings: How Too Much Worry About a Child's Emotions Can Undermine Success 5. Stop Blaming Your Child or Yourself: How Knowing Fighting an Eating Disorder is Different From Fighting Your Child or Yourself Helps You Succeed 6. Do Not Try to Reason with an Eating Disorder: Why Trying Reasoning with a Child with Eating Disordered Thinking Doesn't Work 7. Deferring to Experts is Not the Answer: How Expecting Other Professionals to Solve the Problem Can Interfere with Progress in FBT 8.Why is This So Hard: How Patience and Persistence are the Keys to Success in FBT 9. Does Everything Have to Stop? Balancing Academic Progress, Athletics, or Activities and ED Recovery 10. Don't Give Up Too Soon: Why it is Important to Accomplish the Goals of FBT to Reduce the Likelihood of Relapse 11. Find Support: Why it is Important for Parents to Seek Support from Professionals, Families, Friends, and Organizations 12. Bringing it All Together and Moving On

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Book SynopsisGetting Better Bite by Bite is an essential, authoritative and evidence-based self-help programmethat has been used by bulimia sufferersfor over 20 years. This new edition maintains the essence of the original book, while updating its content for today''s readers, drawing on the latest knowledge of the biology and psychology of bulimia and its treatment. The book provides step-by-step guidance for change based on solid research. The use of everyday language, stimulating contemporary case study story-telling and evocative illustrations in Bite by Bite provide encouragement, hope and new perspectives for all readers. This handy-sized book fills a need for easy-to-understand information about Bulimia Nervosa, a serious and prevalent eating disorder. Ulrike Schmidt and Janet Treasure are world-renowned researchers and authorities on eating disorders, and June Alexander, a former sufferer of anorexia and bulimia, is a respected writer and internationally-known eatingTrade Review"Countless subjects afflicted with bulimia have already benefited from using the original self-help manual, one of the first written after the description of these disorders. The new edition retains the appeal of the original through a friendly style, moving case-vignettes and ingenious illustrations. Some additions enable the inclusion of new research on the body image disturbance and on refined treatment techniques, while an extra chapter facilitates access to sources of help in different parts of the world. I recommend this book with full enthusiasm." - Gerald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London"Ulrike Schmidt, Janet Treasure and June Alexander make an outstanding team in this second edition of one of the foremost self-help manuals for sufferers with bulimic disorders. Drs Schmidt and Treasure are at the cutting edge in their clinical and research work in this domain, and adding June Alexander to this team provides this edition an eloquent voice that represents sufferers and carers. This book is a great practical guide for those who are unwell, and also for those you are there to guide these individuals through their struggles toward recovery - professionals, families and friends alike."- Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children’s Health, University of California, San Francisco, USA "Getting Better Bite by Bite is a beautiful illustrated step-by-step guide for eating disorders recovery. Through rich storytelling and concrete practical exercises reflecting decades of collective clinical experience, this book accompanies the reader across the stepping stones to recovery. Warmth, compassion, and deep understanding flow from every page integrating perspectives of two of the most respected eating disorder clinicians in the world and a survivor/advocate. This guide avoids jargon and provides solid advice for anyone with an eating disorder. A rich resource for every library and a comforting companion for anyone contemplating recovery." - Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED, Professor, Karolinska Institutet and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Author of Midlife Eating Disorders and Binge Control"Countless subjects afflicted with bulimia have already benefited from using the original self-help manual, one of the first written after the description of these disorders. The new edition retains the appeal of the original through a friendly style, moving case-vignettes and ingenious illustrations. Some additions enable the inclusion of new research on the body image disturbance and on refined treatment techniques, while an extra chapter facilitates access to sources of help in different parts of the world. I recommend this book with full enthusiasm." - Gerald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London"Ulrike Schmidt, Janet Treasure and June Alexander make an outstanding team in this second edition of one of the foremost self-help manuals for sufferers with bulimic disorders. Drs Schmidt and Treasure are at the cutting edge in their clinical and research work in this domain, and adding June Alexander to this team provides this edition an eloquent voice that represents sufferers and carers. This book is a great practical guide for those who are unwell, and also for those you are there to guide these individuals through their struggles toward recovery - professionals, families and friends alike."- Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children’s Health, University of California, San Francisco, USA "Getting Better Bite by Bite is a beautiful illustrated step-by-step guide for eating disorders recovery. Through rich storytelling and concrete practical exercises reflecting decades of collective clinical experience, this book accompanies the reader across the stepping stones to recovery. Warmth, compassion, and deep understanding flow from every page integrating perspectives of two of the most respected eating disorder clinicians in the world and a survivor/advocate. This guide avoids jargon and provides solid advice for anyone with an eating disorder. A rich resource for every library and a comforting companion for anyone contemplating recovery." - Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED, Professor, Karolinska Institutet and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Author of Midlife Eating Disorders and Binge Control"From the outset, Gettign Better Bite by Bite engages readers to realistically an wholeheartedly consider waht it will take--and what it will mean--to change thier lives and become free from bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder. Drawing upon years of clinical experience and the most up to date treatment research, this volume can be used as a self-help guide to changing long-standing eating disorder pattersn and get readers on the road to recovery. In fact, research has found that use of this book is an efficatious therapeutic intervention... Schmidt, Treasure, and Alexander have woven a uniquely authoritative volume that is as engaging and emphatic as it is practical and directive. Getting Better Bite by Bite is an invaluable resource for sufferers as well as carers." - Peter Doyle, Academy of Eating Disorders ForumTable of ContentsIntroduction. A Few Words of Caution. What this Book Can and Can’t Do. The Way Forward. Do I Suffer From Bulimia? How to Use This Book. First Steps. Back to The Future. Making Your Decision to Go. How to Stage Your Journey. Tools For the Journey. How to Facilitate Change by Keeping a Therapeutic Diary. New Skills to Cope with Old Difficulties. Dieting: A Health Warning. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder. In the Healthy Weight Range. Health Hazards of Dieting. How Much do I Need to Eat? Achieving Optimal Weight and Shape. Regaining Eating Control.The Black Hole of the Insatiable Stomach. Why Can’t I Control My Eating? How to Stop Binges. Lapses. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too. Facing the Facts. Why You Are Right to Worry. What Type of Weight Controller Are You? How to Stop Vomiting. How to Stop Abusing Laxatives, Diuretics, Medications. Learning to Feel Good about Your Body. How Body Image Problems Are Caused and Maintained. Challenging Unhelpful Beauty Ideals and Fat Talk. Getting to Know Your Body. Looking After Your Body. Other Helpful Strategies. Living With Your Body. Note. Being Fatter May be Better. Health Risks in Being Overweight. Nothing Beautiful About Dieting. Avoiding the Lonely Trap. Shake, Shake, Shake Your Body. Relapse: Walking In Circles—Or Not. Preventing Slips. What to do if a Slip Occurs. Add Pleasure to Your Day. Childhood Wounds. Sexual Abuse. Trying to Make Sense of it. Grappling With Guilt and Self-Blame. After-Effects of Abuse. Get a Toehold on Trust. Coming to Terms. Food for Thought. Feeling Like You Don’t Fit in. The Gloom-and-Doom Scenario. When Life is Dreadful. Wracked By Guilt. Please, Please Them. Out of Control with Control. Defusing Self-Defeating Thoughts. Shoo Away Shame. Finding Your Voice. Learning to Stand Your Ground. Anything For a Quiet Life. Ground-Rules For Assertive Behavior. Putting Assertiveness Into Practice. The Seduction of Self-destruction. The Slippery Slope of Alcohol and Drugs. When to Worry About Alcohol Intake. Living Dangerously. Spending What You Don’t Have. Note. Web of Life: Parents, Partners Children, and Friends. At Home With the Family. Friends. Sexual Relationships. Children.Working to Live, Living to Work. Common Work Problems.The End of Your Journey—Or Not. If You Are Still Stuck. Time to Get Real About You. Recovery: An Adventure in Self-Discovery. Where to Get Help. Appendix.

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Book SynopsisEating can be a source of great pleasure--or deep distress. If you've picked up this book, chances are you're looking for tools to transform your relationship with food. Grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this motivating guide offers a powerful pathway to change. Drs. Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson have translated their proven, state-of-the-art treatment into a compassionate self-help resource for anyone struggling with bingeing and other types of stress eating. You will learn to: *Identify your emotional triggers. *Cope with painful or uncomfortable feelings in new and healthier ways. *Gain awareness of urges and cravings without acting on them. *Break free from self-judgment and other traps. *Practice specially tailored mindfulness techniques. *Make meaningful behavior changes, one doable step at a time. Vivid examples and stories help you build each DBT skill. Carefully crafted practical tools (you can download and print additional cTrade Review"The emotional side of out-of-control eating is powerful and real. This easy-to-read, research-based book helps you gain awareness of--and break--the links between emotional distress and food. Highly recommended."--Lucene Wisniewski, PhD, private practice, Cleveland, Ohio "Food meets so many of my emotional needs that the idea of eating less has always been a shock to my system. This book is helping me deal with emotions differently. The tools, details, and practice opportunities I needed are all here."--Cori A., San Francisco "This book provides practical strategies and examples, addressing tough issues in a way that puts solutions in anyone's grasp. Very approachable, helpful, and useful."--James Lock, MD, PhD, coauthor of Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, Second Edition "I'm grateful for this life-changing book. Using the tools in this program, I was able to stop binge eating and also learned emotional awareness skills that have allowed me to make better decisions for myself and my family. I highly recommend it."--Linda G., Calgary, Canada -Table of ContentsIntroduction What You Will Learn in This Program: Preview of Upcoming Chapters 1. The DBT Approach to Stopping Binge Eating 2. Making a Commitment to Stop Binge Eating 3. Discussing Program Goals and the Tools to Get You There 4. Learning to Become Your Own DBT Coach 5. The Benefits of Dialectical Thinking and Mindfulness 6. Becoming a More Skillful Observer 7. Staying on Track 8. Mindful Eating and Urge Surfing 9. Being Mindful of Your Current Emotion and Radically Accepting Your Emotions 10. Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind and Building Mastery 11. Building Positive Experiences: Steps for Increasing Positive Emotions 12. Distress Tolerance 13. Reviewing, Planning for the Future, and Preventing Relapse Appendix. What Studies Form the Basis for This Program? Resources

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Book SynopsisIntuitive Eating is a groundbreaking approach to nutrition that recognizes the body''s natural hunger cues and signals. Structured around the 10 principles of intuitive eating, this comprehensive professional manual gives psychotherapists, dieticians, and nutritionists session-by-session techniques to teach clients how to implement the core tenets of intuitive eating, and promote a healthy and nourishing relationship to food.A comprehensive manual for teaching intuitive eating to patients and clients-for psychotherapists, dieticians, and nutritionists.Intuitive Eating is a groundbreaking approach to nutrition that recognizes the body''s natural hunger signals. There are numerous benefits associated with eating intuitively, including improved mental health, self-esteem, body image, weight stability, and dietary patterns. Structured around the 10 principles of intuitive eating, this comprehensive professional manual offers psychotherapists, dieticians, and nutritionists sessio

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide enables those working with young children to better understand, manage and support children's relationship with food. Revealing the different ways in which children can relate to food, it gives accessible guidance and advice about how to help children to develop psychologically healthy eating habits and behaviours, and how to tackle feeding issues such as picky eating, obesity and food anxiety. Included is an easy-to-use reference section for trouble-shooting, which contains advice on how special needs such as autism can affect children's feelings about food.Trade ReviewIf we are to tackle the obesity epidemic and, more importantly, build self-esteem and body confidence, we need to start working with young people from a very early age ... Cormack provides many practical ways to provide this nurturance, offering creative solutions to eating problems in young children and embedding these solutions within the practice of early years professionals. Case studies bring the book to life, making it accessible and very user-friendly. While it is aimed at professionals, I would recommend it to parents too. -- Dr Nicola Davies, Health Psychologist, Counsellor, and AuthorComprehensive guidance that will support the personal, social and emotional development of young children ... Both early years professionals and parents would benefit from reading this book. -- Emma Bacon, Author of Rebalancing Your Relationship with FoodJo Cormack's book Helping Children Develop a Positive Relationship with Food does just that! [It] makes caring for children easier and more satisfying, and children will eat better for it. It's a win-win. -- Jenny McGlothlin MS, CCC-SLP author of Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky EatingAs a pediatric dietitian working with families on a variety of feeding issues, I am so thrilled Jo's book is now available ... I hope to see this timely resource on the desk of each child-minder, preschool and nursery teacher in the UK and beyond. -- Natalia Stasenko MS, RD, Feeding BytesOnly a few books have changed the way I think and Helping Children Develop a Positive Relationship with Food is one of them... Before reading it, I honestly thought I knew what I was doing in terms of how to provide food for a child, but Jo Cormack's book has flipped my opinions upside down and enlightened me to perhaps a more sensible and positive approach. -- Special Educational Needs Resources BlogTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Section One: All about a good relationship with food. 1. What is a positive relationship with food and why does it matter? 2. Self-regulation. 3. The division of responsibility model. 4. Exposure and variety. Section Two: Under pressure. 5. What is a controlling feeding style? 6. Why is being controlling unhelpful? 7. Attention and praise. 8. Who knows best? Learning to trust children. Section Three: Food and feelings. 9. Understanding emotional eating. 10. Rewarding and punishing with food. 11. How we talk about food. 12. Reflecting on your own relationship with food. Section Four: Implications for practice - fostering a positive relationship with food. 13. Structure. 14. Content. 15. Serving family style. 16. Staff training. Section Five: Your food ethos. 17. The eating environment. 18. The social side of eating. 19. Modelling. Section Six: Nutrition and healthy eating. 20. Healthy eating and the EYFS framework. 21. Fun not fear - how to teach about nutrition. 22. Your food policy. Section Seven: Working with parents. 23. Being a team. 24. Empowering without blaming. 25. Understanding eating skills. 26. All about drinking. Section Eight: What we can do away from the table. 27. The power of play. 28. Helping children engage with their food. Section Nine: A closer look at picky eating. 29. Picky eating - is there really a problem? 30. What is behind picky eating? 31. Core principles when working with picky eaters. 32. Strategies to help picky eaters. Section Ten: Special cases. 33. ARFID. 34. Allergies and intolerances. 35. ASD. 36. Sensory processing. 37. Oral motor skills. 38. Obesity. Section Eleven: A case study. Nurture Early Learning, New Zealand. Final thoughts. Resource guide. References.

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Book SynopsisEating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence which may be transitory, to serious and chronic mental illnesses. The Anorexic Mind offers a coherent approach to these difficult and demanding problems, always underlining the point that while many of the manifestations are physical, eating disorders have their origins as well as their solutions, in the mind. While anorexia nervosa may be considered the central syndrome in eating disorders, this book also considers how it links and differs from bulimia nervosa, the more common, related disorder. In the process of the research on anorexia and bulimia, valuable insights have been gained into the very common problem of overeating.The author takes a developmental approach to eating disorders, and is very aware of the continuities between infantile, adolescent and adult experience. Our earliest relationship is a feeding relationship and feeding difficulties early in life are not rare. The view taken in The Anorexic Mind is that feeding difficulties indicate and reflect relationship difficulties whether they occur in infancy, adolescence or adulthood. Most eating disorders apparently begin at adolescence, though if a careful history can be obtained, it is often clear that there have been relationship difficulties at earlier stages of development.If eating disorders are understood as reflections of relationship difficulties, the author believes that they are best treated within a therapeutic relationship. Examples are given of treatment by formal psychotherapy or psychoanalysis where early difficulties become visible and treatable within the transference relationship to the therapist. The most serious cases of anorexia and bulimia nervosa are treated within institutional settings, and many patients have a number of long admissions.Part of the Tavistock Clinic Series.Trade Review'The Anorexic Mind is the culmination of thirty years of clinical practice, teaching, and consultation about the often intractable problems of anorexia and bulimia. One of the many strengths of the book is its dual focus: it moves between psychoanalytic work in the consulting room on the one hand, and work with very ill people in inpatient settings on the other. As a consequence, the respective chapters draw both on long-term intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy and also on approaches to mental health that stem from traditions that lie at the heart of the work of the Tavistock Clinic.' - Margot Waddell, from the Series Editor's Preface 'Marilyn Lawrence has produced a book on anorexia nervosa which is both authoritative and imaginative. It covers the subject widely and deeply, with historical, social and psychological perspectives. The authority comes from experience, as well as a wide general knowledge - that is her considerable experience of consulting to units struggling with this profoundly disturbing disorder and from her psychoanalytic experience of anorectic and bulimic individuals. Her imaginative approach is exemplified in the clinical work she reports and in her exploration of possible explanations of this widespread and potentially dangerous condition. As she shows, though anorexia is superficially contrary to reason at depth it has its own deadly logic. Professional workers, interested intellectuals and worried parents will all find this book informative and orientating. What makes it an even greater asset in the confusing, conflicted and ideologically infused field of eating disorders, is the balance of its clinically informed opinions.' - Ronald Britton, FRCPsych., F Inst Psychoanal., DPMTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Historical Perspectives2. Assessing risk in eating disorders3. Eating disorders and object relations4. Anorexia, femininity and the sexual development of girls5. Matters of life and death6. Psychotherapy with eating disorder patients7. Psychological thinking in hospital settingsConclusions

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Book SynopsisGrounded in decades of influential research, this book thoroughly examines perfectionism: how it develops, its underlying mechanisms and psychological costs, and how to target it effectively in psychotherapy. The authors describe how perfectionistic tendencies--rooted in early relational and developmental experiences--make people vulnerable to a wide range of clinical problems. They present an integrative treatment approach and demonstrate ways to tailor interventions to the needs of individual clients. A group treatment model is also detailed. State-of-the-art assessment tools are discussed (and provided at the companion website). Throughout the book, vivid clinical illustrations make the core ideas and techniques concrete.Trade Review"This book could be a career saver for narrowly trained recent graduates who have discovered they need a greatly expanded repertoire to cope with clinical reality. Steeped in research and rich with clear examples from clinical practice, the book shows how the destructive 'trait' of perfectionism can be better understood in interpersonal and intrapsychic terms that are directly related to family history, social context, and more. It includes very informative discussions of how to use the authors' integrative approach in individual and group therapy."--Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, Department of Psychology (Emeritus), University of Utah "The authors have made enormous contributions to our understanding of perfectionism, an affliction that permeates our culture and is implicated in a plethora of mental disorders. This definitive volume lays out their transdiagnostic model of perfectionistic behavior and how to treat it. The best and most comprehensive volume on perfectionism, this is a 'must read' for scholars and clinicians who study and treat all forms of psychopathology."--Randy O. Frost, PhD, Harold and Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology, Smith College "A near-perfect overview of the scope and dangers of perfectionism. The authors define the problem and carefully review the development of major concepts and models. They present creative ways of helping patients burdened with pathological perfectionism, illustrated with clinical vignettes. I recommend this important book."--J. Scott Rutan, PhD, private practice, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts "Hewitt et al. are world leaders in the field who have pioneered our understanding of the demands of self-perfection, the perfection of others, and fear that others expect perfection from us. As this book brilliantly highlights, the cost of these mental struggles can be enormous, driving people to severe depression, other mental health problems, and even suicide. It is also well known that perfectionists can be difficult to help, making the authors' compassionate insights for therapeutic engagement immensely useful. This is an outstanding book for its scholarship, clarity, and clinical wisdom--I learned a lot from it, and others will, too."--Paul Gilbert, PhD, FBPsS, OBE, Centre for Compassion Research and Training, University of Derby, United Kingdom "An excellent contribution. This book has special relevance for the field of eating disorders, as sufferers are driven by perfectionism about their weight and appearance. Clinical illustrations give a vivid impression of the development of perfectionism and the different functions of perfectionistic behavior, and make the book well suited for training."--Susanne Lunn, MSc, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark -Very comprehensive…including research findings, case examples, and the history of literature on perfectionism….The authors make the important point that people who suffer from perfectionistic standards often do not get help with this specific problem….One very positive aspect of the book is that it integrates theoretical approaches without trying to push only one orientation….The authors do an excellent job of showing the heterogeneity of perfectionists--etiologies can be very different, although not surprisingly, they share a background of unmet needs….The authors have succeeded in demonstrating that perfectionism is a fundamental personality construct and cannot be minimized by reducing it to neurotic conscientiousness of the five-factor model of personality.--PsycCRITIQUES, 9/18/2017Table of Contents1. Introduction to Perfectionism 2. The Comprehensive Model of Perfectionistic Behavior 3. Evidence for the Clinical Relevance of Perfectionism 4. The Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model: Development of Perfectionism 5. The Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model: Perfectionism and Maladjustment 6. A Theoretical Model for Treatment of Perfectionistic Behavior 7. Psychodiagnostic Assessment of Perfectionism 8. Clinical Cases and Common Themes 9. Individual Psychotherapy of Perfectionism 10. Group Psychotherapy of Perfectionistic Behavior Epilogue. Overview and Future Considerations References Index

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Book SynopsisARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers is an accessible summary of a relatively recent diagnostic term. People with ARFID may show little interest in eating, eat only a very limited range of foods or may be terrified something might happen to them if they eat, such as choking or being sick. Because it has been poorly recognised and poorly understood it can be difficult to access appropriate help and difficult to know how best to manage at home.This book covers common questions encountered by parents or carers whose child has been given a diagnosis of ARFID or who have concerns about their child. Written in simple, accessible language and illustrated with examples throughout, this book answers common questions using the most up-to-date clinical knowledge and research.Primarily written for parents and carers of young people, ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder includes a wealth of practical tips and suggested strategies to equip parents and carers with the means to take positive steps towards dealing with the problems ARFID presents. It will also be relevant for family members, partners or carers of older individuals, as well as professionals seeking a useful text, which captures the full range of ARFID presentations and sets out positive management advice.Trade Review"ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers is an outstanding resource designed to help parents/carers understand the complexities of a diagnosis of ARFID, its consequences and treatment. This accessible guide combines clinical cases and up-to-date research. Bryant-Waugh’s depth of experience working with children and families with ARFID brilliantly captures how to make sense of the everyday challenges that a diagnosis of ARFID brings to children and their families. This "go-to" resource fills a much needed gap in providing parents/carers with strategies in supporting their child with ARFID." - Debra K. Katzman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto"This is a brilliantly written, clear, practical and engaging book by the world-expert in the field. It uniquely combines research and clinical wisdom, illustrated by multiple varied examples, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the problem and how to address it. The 5-step approach is exceptionally valuable with sequential guidance about how to enable positive change. It is essential reading for any parent or practitioner wanting to help children overcome these difficulties and is a fantastic resource that has the potential to transform lives." - Roz Shafran, Professor of Translational Psychology UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health"This is a long overdue guide for parents. Dr Bryant-Waugh has been a leading clinical and research expert in feeding difficulties for many years, and it is pleasing to see this wealth of experience and advice into one volume. I have no doubt it will be extremely helpful for families and children with ARFID. The suggested approaches are positive, non-blaming and focused on hope, for this is key as many children will manage and improve, but a whole family and inspiration of confidence are needed. This book provides both." - Dr Lee Hudson, Consultant Paediatrician Great Ormond Street Hospital"ARFID Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: A Guide for Parents and Carers is an outstanding resource designed to help parents/carers understand the complexities of a diagnosis of ARFID, its consequences and treatment. This accessible guide combines clinical cases and up-to-date research. Bryant-Waugh’s depth of experience working with children and families with ARFID brilliantly captures how to make sense of the everyday challenges that a diagnosis of ARFID brings to children and their families. This 'go-to' resource fills a much needed gap in providing parents/carers with strategies in supporting their child with ARFID." Debra K. Katzman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Canada"This is a brilliantly written, clear, practical and engaging book by the world-expert in the field. It uniquely combines research and clinical wisdom, illustrated by multiple varied examples, to provide a comprehensive understanding of the problem and how to address it. The 5-step approach is exceptionally valuable with sequential guidance about how to enable positive change. It is essential reading for any parent or practitioner wanting to help children overcome these difficulties and is a fantastic resource that has the potential to transform lives." Roz Shafran, Professor of Translational Psychology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK"This is a long overdue guide for parents. Dr Bryant-Waugh has been a leading clinical and research expert in feeding difficulties for many years, and it is pleasing to see this wealth of experience and advice in one volume. I have no doubt it will be extremely helpful for families and children with ARFID. The suggested approaches are positive, non-blaming and focused on hope, for this is key as many children will manage and improve, but a whole family and inspiration of confidence are needed. This book provides both." Dr Lee Hudson, Consultant Paediatrician, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 01. What is ARFID? 02. Who can develop ARFID? 03. Why does someone develop ARFID? 04. What are the consequences of having ARFID? 05. What can I do? 06. What is the best treatment for ARFID? 07. What about the future? Closing words

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Book SynopsisReaders are walked through strategies by a therapist and her former patient.Trade Review"Carolyn Costin and Gwen Grabb have done it again! I desperately needed this book when I was struggling with my own eating disorder. The 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook is a must for all individuals touched by the treacherous illness." -- Jenni Schaefer, author of Goodbye Ed, Hello Me; Life Without Ed; Almost Anorexic "The 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook translates inspirational ideas into practical plans for recovery and redemption. Readers learn how to access their healthy self to quiet and heal the eating disorder self, gradually developing and deepening their spiritual awareness and shedding light on the soul self that will sustain recovery. " -- Margo Maine, PhD, FAED, CEDS, Eating disorder specialist and author, National Eating Disorders Association Board Advisor "I cannot recommend the 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder Workbook more highly to anyone struggling with an eating disorder. The authors speak from the heart to those at every stage of recovery-expertly tuning in to both the eating disorder voice and the healthy voice to help you motivate change. For anyone who's even considering walking the path of recovery, this workbook will be a game changer." -- Kristina Saffran, co-founder of Project HEAL

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Book SynopsisA step-by-step holistic approach to eating disorder recovery, using self-compassion and embodiment practices to reduce symptoms, increase body awareness and acceptance, reconnect to others, and step back into an integrated lifeThose who struggle with disordered eating often find themselves in an unrelenting cycle of harsh self-judgment, painful emotions, and harmful behaviors. Seeing the body as an adversary, these patterns can lead many people to become withdrawn or isolated. Ann Saffi Biasetti’s powerful holistic approach to liberating people from disordered eating focuses on growing self-compassion and embodiment. This insight, informed by yoga and mindfulness meditation, views the body not just as something to be healed or restored but as a source of great wisdom and knowledge. Dr. Biasetti offers yoga-based movement, body-awareness practices, meditations, and journaling exercises to help release long-held habits of self-criticism and perfectionism. Her step-by-step program will rebuild self-compassion, self-care, body awareness, acceptance, and connection to the self and to others.

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Book SynopsisFamily-based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders is an outpatient therapy in which parents are utilized as the primary resource in treatment. The therapist supports the parents to do the work nurses would have done if the patient were hospitalized to an inpatient-refeeding unit, and are eventually tasked with encouraging the patient to resume normal adolescent development. In recent years many new adaptations of the FBT intervention have been developed for addressing the needs of special populations. This informative new volume chronicles these novel applications of FBT in a series of chapters authored by the leading clinicians and investigators who are pioneering each adaptation.Trade Review"This is an important and timely book. The editors, themselves key figures in the development and provision of family based treatment (FBT) for eating disorders, have put together a series of important chapters by leading clinicians and researchers...The final chapter is a work of genius – if you want to know whether you are really practising FBT (as opposed to a pale imitation), read this chapter." - Mark Berelowitz, ACAMHTable of Contents1 The Role of the Family in Eating Disorders. 2 What’s New is Old and What’s Old is New: The Origins and Evolution of Eating Disorders Family Therapy. Part I: Innovative Adaptations of Family Therapy for Eating and Weight Disorders. 3 In Vivo Family Meal Training for Initial Non-Responders. 4 Parent Focused Treatment. 5 A Brief, Intensive Application of Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders. 6 Exposure-Based Family Therapy. 7 Multi-Family Therapy. 8 Parent Support as an Adjunct to Family Therapy. Part II: Specialty Populations. 9 Family Therapy for Prodromal Anorexia Nervosa. 10 Family-Based Treatment for Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: A Transdevelopmental Approach. 11 Family Therapy for Transition Youth. 12 Family-Based Therapy for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Families Facing Food Neo-phobias. 13 Family-Based Therapy for Adolescent Weight Loss Surgery. 14 Integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Family Therapy for Adolescents with Affect Dysregulation. 15 Emotional Experience and Regulation in Eating Disorders: Theory, Evidence, and Translational Application to Family Treatment. Part III: Dissemination and Implementation. 16 Implementing Behavioral Family Therapy in Complex Settings. 17 Delivering Family-Based Treatment in a Specialty Practice Setting. 18 Internet Assisted Family Therapy and Prevention for Anorexia Nervosa. 19 Dissemination of Family-Based Treatment. 20 Conceptualizing Fidelity in FBT as the Field Moves Forward: How Do We Know When We’re Doing it Right?

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Book SynopsisCaring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual provides a framework for carer skills workshops which can be used by anyone working with these conditions. Based on the successful New Maudsley Model, which equips carers with the knowledge and skills needed to support those with an eating disorder, the book consists of two sections which will help facilitators to deliver skills workshops to carers. The first section provides the theoretical background, while the second uses exercises to bring the New Maudsley Model to life. The skills workshops provide a much-needed lifeline, giving carers an opportunity to meet in a safe, non-judgemental and confidential environment, and to learn to recognise that changes in their own responses can be highly beneficial. With session-by-session guidelines and handouts for participants, Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual will be of aid to anyone working with someone coping with these conditions. Trade Review"Caring for someone with an eating disorder is, without a doubt, a critical part in support of the recovery of the sufferer. Therefore, guiding and taking care of the carer have taken front-row seats in this process. The authors are leading authorities in this domain and Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder, based on their The New Maudsley Model, is a very helpful session-by-session guide to participants and facilitators of skills workshops in order to train, equip, and support carers in their difficult task. This book is not only an outstanding go-to guide for carers and those who support carers, but it also will provide much-needed information to all clinicians who wish to better understand and support families and friends who are taking care of a loved one with an eating disorder." - Daniel Le Grange, Ph.D., FAED, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children's Health, Director, Eating Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry and UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL."Recognition of the importance of bringing carers and loved ones into treatment and attending to the burden on close family members has transformed the care of people with eating disorders across the age range and across the stages of the illness. This manual, born of years of personal and clinical experience of working with adults with eating disorders and substantiated by research, is an accessible guide for facilitators keen to put this knowledge into action through support of parents and carers based on the highly acclaimed Skills Based Caring for a Loved one with an Eating Disorder (The New Maudsley Method). Bursting with practical and creative ideas, peppered with top tips to help negotiate the challenging emotional nature of the work, and all underpinned by theory and research evidence in an easy to understand form, it provides a step by step yet flexible guide and toolkit for practitioners in delivering skills workshops for carers." - Dr Dasha Nicholls, Reader in Child Psychiatry, Imperial College London Chair, Eating Disorders Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists"The New Maudsley Model of sharing skills with carers has the potential to transform services and improve clinical outcomes. Building on the self help book, this is a brilliantly concise guide to delivering carer skills workshops, with session by session facilitator crib sheets, exercises and worksheets. More than anything, it’s the collaborative, empathic & non-judgemental style of delivery and interaction that matters - and it is this style that is described and attended to invaluably throughout the book. Helpful to all of us in our day to day work with carers." - Dr Frances Connan, PhD, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director for Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service"This ground-breaking book fills an important gap by providing a step by step guide for initiating and facilitating a skills workshop for caregivers of people of all ages living with eating disorders. With compassion, warmth, straightforward & non-blaming language, this must-read book provides both professional and non-professional carers with theories, practical strategies and hands on exercises to enhance communication and promote relational change. It brings hope about the possibility of transformation for all affected by eating disorders."- Gina Dimitropoulos, MSW, PhD, RSW, RMFT, social worker, family therapist and professional carer, University of Calgary"This is a book that the field has desperately needed—a clear yet comprehensive guide to navigating an area too often relegated to being overwhelming in its complexity. With the key element of empowering carers, championed by Langley and her co-authors, it provides a set of tools that professionals, carers, and sufferers may all use to steer and enhance recovery—concrete steps and worksheet-guided exercises, backed by research and theory, and delivered with understanding and compassion. Highly recommended." - Dr Joanne Dolhanty, PhD, CPsych, Developer of Emotion Focused Skills Training for Parents & Families."The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual is THE game changer for carers, clinicians and multi-family group leaders. The modules truly bring The New Maudsley Approach to life and I can’t wait for our team to try out all the new exercises in our multi-family program." - Roxanne Rockwell, PhD. Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Adolescent Eating Disorder Services at the University of California, San Diego. "Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual is the new and exciting companion to Skills-based Learning for caring for a loved one with an Eating Disorders. It is exactly what you need if you are training and supporting carers of sufferers with eating disorders. Based on research and the unique expertise of Janet Treasure, Jenny Langley and Gillian Todd this manual provides ideas and exercises that are user-friendly and invaluable." - Dr Nadia Micali MD, MRCPsych, PhD, FAED, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Eating disorders and Adolescent Mental Health (ED&AMH) research team , Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Palliative Care and Paediatrics Section, Population, Policy and Practice Research Theme, UCL Institute of Child Health"In this book, Janet, Jenny and Gill gather many years of experience working with carers in workshops and other settings and bring a comprehensive theoretical and experiential background based on the New Maudsley Model for professional and non-professional carers to effectively support someone with an eating disorder in their path to recovery. Through the contents of each chapter of the book, carers will be able to acquire theoretical and practical abilities from a unique approach that includes skills from the transtheoretical model of change, motivational enhancement therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and emotional processing techniques to help their loved one to be able to overcome this illness and deal with the setbacks. Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills Based Training Manual is a "must have" for anyone who is part of the "care team": it is a step-by-step guide to implement carer workshops and also a treasure of useful tools that gently leads carers to transform their caregiving experience into the main healing resource to support their sufferers and make their change possible." - Carolina López, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Surgery, East Division, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile. "We have successfully used and tested the "New Maudsley Model" in a German-speaking Austrian population with anorexia nervosa including the Succeed DVD. This new manual will extremely foster a quick dissemination of this successful treatment model to all supporting carers in need, giving them step-by-step advice how to care best. Warmly recommended!" - Prof Andreas Karwautz, MD, Vienna, Austria"When faced with the often frightening and daunting task of caring for a loved one with an eating disorder, there is no better resource than this which explains how to help others to do so in such a clear and thoughtful way. The authors outline how to set up workshops which share information and professional skills with carers, provide practical solutions to challenges based on their extensive experience of delivering these workshops and offer a thorough template for a series of workshops which have in the past received excellent feedback from carers in attendance. I shall be drawing on this resource in my own practice." - Dr Amy Harrison, Family Therapist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Eating Disorder Service Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceSection OneChapter 1 Introduction and background to skills-based caringChapter 2 Practical issues for running the workshopsChapter 3 Facilitator delivery style, values and spiritChapter 4 Facilitator guide to Motivational Interviewing and emotional processingSection TwoIntroduction Module 1 - Starting off and setting the scene for recovery 1.1. Welcoming the carers1.2 Introductions1.3 Agreeing ground rules for the group1.4 Emotional response to caregiving1.5 The Readiness Ruler1.6 Working with a joint understanding – basic facts and recoveryModule 2 - Psychoeducation and developing empathy 2.1 Considering causes and maintaining factors2.2 Considering ambivalence with a focus on the benefits of an ED2.3 Understanding the trap of an eating disorder: the toxic effect of prolonged starvation and repeated habits 2.4 Building empathy for the challenges of weight restoration – the metabolism effect2.5 Building empathy for the sufferer – coping strategies and the crap day exercise2.6 Externalising the illness, part one: how have Edi’s personality traits changed through ED?2.7 Externalising the illness, part two: introducing the red balloon/ blue balloon metaphor2.8 Building empathy for the sufferer – popping the balloon2.9 Externalising the illness part three: visual exerciseModule Three – How the Eating Disorder Impacts on Interpersonal Relationships3.1 Exploring the Animal Metaphors3.2 Which 'Animals' Does Edi Interact with at Home and Outside the Home? 3.3 Considering How Edi Responds to the Animals3.4 Creating a Productive PartnershipModule Four – The Cycle of Change and Introduction to Communication Skills 4.1 Stages of Change Model4.2 Decisional Balance4.3 Readiness Ruler and DARN-C 4.4 OARS (including LESS is More)4.5 Advice givingModule Five – Advanced Communication Skills 5.1 Emotional Intelligence 5.2 Emotion-Focused relationships using Attend, Label, Validate, Soothe (ALVS)5.3 The Reassurance Trap and Rolling with Resistance5.4 Five Key Principles: DEARS, Developing Discrepancy, Expressing Empathy, Amplifying Ambivalence, Rolling with Resistance, Supporting Self-efficacy5.5 Ambivalence Empowering Carers When Edi is in Pre-Contemplation or Facing a Lapse When in Recovery5.6 Hopelessness: Empowering Carers When Edi Feels it is All Too Much and May be Expressing Suicidal IdeationModule Six – Working as a Herd of Elephants – Collaboration Between All Carers 6.1 Making the Most of Family and Friends network6.2 Partners, Single Parents and the Exhausted, Isolated Carer 6.3 Siblings and Peers6.4 Making the Most of the GP Appointment 6.5 Going to A&E in an Emergency – including Medical Risk Assessment 6.6 Collaborating with School/ Work/ University 6.7 Building Empathy with the Care Team – the Changing Places Task 6.8 Encouraging Collaborative Care Using Motivational Language with the Care Team 6.9 Letter-writing to Repair Ruptured RelationshipsModule Seven – Exercises for Carers to Plan for Change7.1a Simple Reflection Exercises7.1b Carers Reflecting on the Impact of ED on their Everyday Lives and Role-Modelling Self Care using SMART Baby Steps.7.2 A Five-Step Approach to Planning for Change, Incorporating using a Spider diagram and Planning SMART Baby Steps7.3 Completing the Accommodation and Enabling Scale for Eating Disorders 7.4 Accommodating Scenario – Using OARS and the ABC Model 7.5 Enabling Scenario – Using the ABC Model to Create a Menu of Options 7.6 Carers Managing Their Own Emotional Responses 7.7 Considering the Concept of Reasonable Risk 7.8 Coping Strategies for Carers – Maintaining a Heathy Balance Module Eight - Coaching Edi to Make Their Own Changes 8.1 A Five-Step Approach to Plan for Behaviour Changes 8.2 Using the ABC model to Understand a Behaviour and Consider a Menu of Options8.3 Using DARN-C to Elicit Change Talk8.4 SMART Planning for Behaviour Change 8.5 When the Carers Face Unexpected Resistance8.6 When the Carers Face Chronic and Unrelenting ResistanceModule Nine – Reclaiming Core Family Values and House Rules and Boundaries 9.1 Reclaiming Normal Core Family Values9.2 Considering house rules and boundaries that are non-negotiable.9.3 Talking is a Good Consequence9.4 Core Values and Boundaries – Adult SufferersModule Ten – Managing Undereating, Re-Feeding and Overeating10.1 Eating is Non-Negotiable for Everyone10.2 Carers Understanding that Re-feeding is a Huge Task10.3 The Key Steps to Restoring Regular Eating Patterns10.4 The Nutritional Risk Ruler10.5 The Nutritional Risk Ruler – When Medical Risk is Very High10.6 Talking About Gaining Weight10.7 Communication around Mealtimes – Calm and Warm10.8 Meal Support 10.9 Communication and Coaching for Rigid Rules and Compensatory Behaviours Including Overeating and Purging10.10 Refusal to Eat with the Family – Using the ABC Model to Create a Menu of OptionsModule Eleven – Managing Longer-Term Difficult Behaviours and Stumbling Blocks 11.1 Tolerance of a Healthy Weight11.2 Body Image Issues 11.3 Self-HarmModule Twelve – Relapse, Contingency Planning And Moving on 12.1 Timeline Example for Edi12.2 Forward Planning for Difficult Life Events, the Carer Perspective12.3 Ups and Downs of Recovery12.4 Looking Forward and Stepping BackIndex

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Book SynopsisThis practical, accessible book teaches readers how to practice healthy body image habits and let go of an emphasis on body image through research, activities, and personal stories.Body neutrality is a body image approach focused on finding acceptance and liberation from the body-focused culture in which we live. Body neutrality is a shift toward seeing our bodies as a vessel of who we are rather than as who we are. This guide is organized into thirteen chapters, each outlining a different concept of body neutrality ranging from comparison and identity to mindfulness and gratitude, inviting participation from the reader through end-of-chapter activities. For anyone aiming to release the enslaving emphasis placed on appearance in a world where body obsession has become inappropriately normal, this book will provide insight and practical guidance toward freedom.Body Neutrality is for anyone struggling with self-esteem and body image issues who aimsTable of Contents1. Introduction to Body Neutrality 2. The Comparison Trap 3. Identity Is Separate from Physicality 4. Mindfulness and Body Image 5. Most Things Are More Important than Appearance 6. I Release the Enslaving Emphasis I Place on My Body 7. Our Bodies Aren’t Meant to be "Achievements" 8. Body Empowerment 9. Body Gratitude 10. Body Neutrality Is a Practice, Not a Destination 11. You’re Allowed to Take Up Space 12. What Happens When You’re Body Neutral?

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Book SynopsisEating disorders affect people from all backgrounds, and often go untreated for years. This book offers an accessible and evidence-based overview.Chapters explore some of the most common risk factors that can predispose, precipitate, and perpetuate an eating disorder, as well as understanding the typical way they are diagnosed and treated. Interwoven with real life stories, and written by authors with diverse experiences, they provide the tools necessary to understand eating disorders better. Topics include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, treatment, diversity in eating disorders, and how to support someone living through these conditions. A glossary of useful key terms is included, along with chapter summaries and up-to-date research.This book is essential for all health care professionals and students, as well as those suffering with an eating disorder and their families and friends.Trade Review“It really works to have a mix of contributors who can talk about the issues from all angles. So you’ve got the expert view, which is so informative - and really important to helping with early detection - but you’re also hearing from people with lived experience of eating disorders, their family and carers, reinforcing the message that recovery is always possible.”Stacey Dooley, author of ‘Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Crisis’, UK.“This book is an excellent combination of professional and lived experience voices resulting in a comprehensive and easily digestedoutline of Eating Disorders; an illness that is seldom well understood but which people do recover from, when treated. The authors eloquently explain important topics such as assessments, treatment, medical emergencies and the diversity of how eating disorders can affect anyone of any age. I recommend this book for health and school professionals as well as families and friends.”Professor Tim Kendall, NHS Mental Health National Clinical Director, UK.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Eating Disorders Overview 3. Diversity in Eating Disorders 4. Anorexia Nervosa 5. Bulimia Nervosa 6. Binge Eating Disorder 7. Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder 8. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder 9. Pica 10. Rumination Disorder 11. Treatment 12. Supporting someone living through an eating disorder 13. Letters of Hope 14. Glossary

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Book SynopsisBinge Eating Disorder, written by a clinician and an advocate who have personally struggled with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), illuminates the experience of BED from the patient perspective while also exploring the disorder's etiological roots and addressing the components of treatment that are necessary for long-term recovery. Accessible for both treatment providers and patients alike, this unique volume aims to explore BED treatment and recovery from both sides of the process while also providing a resource for structuring treatment and building effective interventions. This practical roadmap to understanding, resilience, and lasting change will be useful for anyone working clinically with or close to individuals suffering from BED, as well as those on the recovery journey.Trade Review"Required reading! Through personal stories and professional expertise, Amy and Chevese offer a powerful psychological and weight-inclusive understanding of Binge Eating Disorder. It's imperative that professionals understand how to help their clients who struggle with out-of-control eating, and that the millions of people who struggle with BED lose the shame and blame that can accompany this diagnosis. Binge Eating Disorder offers these solutions."—Judith Matz, LCSW, co-author of The Diet Survivor’s Handbook and Beyond a Shadow of a Diet"As pioneers in the BED community, Amy and Chevese bring an extraordinary combination of professional and personal wisdom to this field. With profound awareness of the many intersecting factors that can negatively impact recovery, they effectively dispel entrenched myths and offer extensive information and resources for advocacy and support, and ultimately, hope for healing. This book is a gift to anyone seeking freedom from BED and a valuable resource for those who care for them."—Anita Johnston, PhD, author of Eating in the Light of the Moon and director of ‘Ai Pono Eating Disorder Programs, Hawaii"Amy and Chevese share their perspectives from decades of experience with Binge Eating Disorder, from survival strategies to recovery; both personal and clinical, solo and community. Their wisdom makes this book rich, rare, and soulful. May we all have access to the communities led by Chevese and access to therapists like Amy."—Deb Burgard, PhD, FAED, licensed psychologist in private practiceTable of ContentsAbout the Authors. Acknowledgments. Note to the Reader 1. Cookies Under the Floorboards and Doritos Under the Bed 2. How BED Happens and Why it Makes Sense: Moving Forward by Healing the Past 3. Taking Your POWR Back 4. The Epic Myths About Your Body That Keep You Stuck (and How to Give Them Up) 5. I Live Here and I’ll Decide: Treating Your Body as Your Home 6. Staying on the Road of Recovery (Even When You Hit a Pothole). Appendix A. Online Resources for Community Building. Index

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Book SynopsisEating disorders present diagnostic and treatment challenges to clinicians. While such disorders need both medical and psychological treatment, patients may be too medically ill for a thorough psychiatric evaluation and may be misunderstood by many primary care physicians. In this book, Drs. Philip S. Mehler and Arnold E. Andersen provide a user-friendly and comprehensive guide for primary care physicians, mental health professionals, and others who encounter patients who have eating disorders. Mehler and Andersen identify common medical complications that people who have eating disorders face and answer questions about how to treat them. They also cover such serious complications as osteoporosis, cardiac arrhythmia, electrolyte abnormalities, and gastrointestinal sequelae. Incorporating illustrative case studies, medical background on the complications, guidelines for diagnosis and treatment, and an up-to-date list of selected references, chapters cover important topics including teaTable of ContentsPreface, by Philip S. Mehler1. Diagnosis and Treatment of the Eating Disorders Spectrum in Primary Care Medicine, by Arnold E. Andersen2. The Role of the Multidisciplinary Team and Levels of Care in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, by Craig Johnson, Kenneth Weiner, Russell Marx, Philip S. Mehler, Cynthia Pikus, and Anne Marie O'Melia3. Medical Evaluation of Patients with Eating Disorders, by Kristine Walsh, Philip S. Mehler, and Jennifer McBride4. Nutritional Rehabilitation, by Philip S. Mehler5. Evaluation and Treatment of Electrolyte Abnormalities, by Margherita Mascolo and Philip S. Mehler6. Gastrointestinal Complications, by Philip S. Mehler7. Cardiac Abnormalities and Their Management, by Katherine V. Sachs, Philip S. Mehler, and Mori Krantz8. Obstetric-Gynecologic Endocrinology and Osteoporosis, by Philip S. Mehler9. General Endocrinology, by Philip S. Mehler10. The Dual Diagnosis of Eating Disorder and Diabetes Mellitus, by Ovidio Bermudez and Philip S. Mehler11. Oral, Dental, Ear, and Eye Complications, by Carrie Brown and Philip S. Mehler12. Athletes and Eating Disorders, by Arnold E. Andersen13. Males with Eating Disorders, by Arnold E. Andersen14. Using Medical Information Psychotherapeutically, by Arnold E. Andersen15. Ethical and Medicolegal Considerations in Treating Patients with Eating Disorders, by Patricia Westmoreland and Philip S. Mehler16. Medical Information for Nonmedical Clinicians and Educators, by Arnold E. Andersen17. Innovative Psychological Treatments of Eating Disorders, by Arnold E. AndersenList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisHighly practical and clinician friendly, this book provides evidence-based tools for tailoring psychotherapy to the needs of clients with bulimia nervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS), including binge-eating disorder. It offers specific guidance for conducting thorough clinical assessments and conceptualizing each case in order to select appropriate interventions. A proven cognitive-behavioral treatment protocol is presented and illustrated with a chapter-length case example. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes a session-by-session treatment plan and 20 reproducible forms, handouts, and worksheets that clinicians can photocopy or download and print for repeated use.Trade Review"CBT is the gold-standard treatment for bulimia nervosa, but many therapists lack training in the approach. This guide presents the behavior change tools that comprise this intervention in the form of worksheets and a complete case example. The authors do an excellent job of disseminating core skills."--Janet Treasure, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, Eating Disorders Research Unit, Department of Academic Psychiatry, Guy's Hospital, London, UK "This is a helpful and informative guide for the clinician working with bulimic-spectrum disorders and an essential educational aid for clinicians in training. Focusing on the cognitive-behavioral model of bulimia, the volume contains many helpful tools."--Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in Children's Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco; Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago "This is a great book that provides comprehensive instruction in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of bulimia and binge-eating disorder. It is grounded in the most recent empirical findings and offers a session-by-session format with practical, easy-to-follow guidelines. The reproducible worksheets, forms, and figures facilitate therapeutic impact and reduce the therapist's workload. This book can be used by clinicians in direct practice, by supervisors with trainees, and with graduate students in psychology and counseling. I will use it in my training and supervision of doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in eating disorder treatment."--Sherrie S. Delinsky, PhD, private practice, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Instructor, Harvard Medical School "A disfigured reflection in a carnival mirror encapsulates the negative self-image and distorted perceptions evident in bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders. Zweig and Leahy provide the tools, strategies, and interventions necessary to clear up distortions in the mirror. This is one of those rare books that are enjoyable to read, pragmatic, and deeply rooted in science and theory. Clinicians will read and reread this book and, ultimately, patients will reap the benefit. If you are interested in improving treatment outcomes, this is a resource you will want to pull from your shelf whenever you begin treating someone with bulimia or binge-eating disorder."--Dennis Greenberger, PhD, Director, Anxiety and Depression Center, Newport Beach, California "Zweig and Leahy have written the definitive practitioner's guide to CBT for bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. This book is an essential addition to the library of both the novice and the experienced cognitive-behavioral therapist working with eating-disordered patients. Zweig and Leahy walk the reader through treatment step by step/m-/from assessment and case conceptualization to treatment planning and particular cognitive techniques. Readers will particularly appreciate the sample case chapter illustrating treatment from start to finish. The compendium of assessment measures in the appendix is an added bonus."--Lisa A. Napolitano, PhD, Director, CBT/DBT Associates, New York City - A detailed and highly instructive guide....The book offers a session-by-session map of how common problems might be addressed, from initial assessment including motivational assessment and psycho-education through behavioral methods, cognitive methods, and development of alternative coping strategies, constituting a 20-session treatment plan for adolescent and adult patients. The book is filled with useful worksheets, plus appendices with assessment instruments. New practitioners and even veterans will find useful guidance for the basic CBT approach here. --Gürze Books Eating Disorders Review, 12/21/2011ƒƒ A useful and informative manual....A range of clinical techniques is presented....I found these immediately useful for bulimic patients, as well as for patients in general....What I found to be the most impressive aspect of the book, was the authors' description of the possible integration of alternative therapeutic techniques, such as those of interpersonal psychotherapy....I found the section discussing managed care to be very thoughtful and considerate to therapists, especially in the current health care climate....A very interesting and helpful book that would be useful for any practitioner working with patients who struggle with bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder. --Eating Disorders, 11/07/2012Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bulimia Nervosa 3. Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning 4. Detailed Treatment Plan for Bulimia Nervosa 5. Case Example 6. Treatment within a Managed Care Context Appendix A. “Transdiagnosis” of Eating Disorders Appendix B. Selected Assessment Tools Appendix C. Recommended Additional Reading

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Book Synopsis''Raw, frank and utterly heartfelt, but full of love and joy too, one of the most moving and uplifting memoirs I''ve ever read.'' Daisy Buchanan''Evanna''s account of overcoming an eating disorder gives an unsparing insight into the mental health system, and the journey to true recovery. A beautifully courageous and honest memoir.'' Bonnie Wright''As well as charting her adolescent battle with anorexia, it offers a darkly compelling, highly topical account of journeying from girlhood to womanhood in the spotlight of global celebrity.'' The Mail on Sunday''A raw and powerful memoir, it shares lessons banishing self-hatred.'' The Sunday Telegraph''Gradually, I began to feel this dawning awareness that womanhood was coming for me, that it was looming inevitably, and it didn''t feel safe...''Evanna Lynch has long been viewed as a role model for people recovering fr

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Book SynopsisFeminist critique has yet to deconstruct the new ‘superwoman’ ideal: the modern woman who can and must have everything, but who, in reality, is never good enough. This media myth is fertile ground for harmful practices that focus on a woman’s own body and of course for specific consumerist behaviours. Media equalization of success, self-control, and attractiveness with a thin, healthy body frame these achievements as individual responsibility. Thus, in a society where women can now do anything, only the woman herself can be blamed if she does not achieve her full potential. Combining scientific approach with personal voices, Eating Disorders in a Capitalist World presents a critical analysis of the social context of eating disorders based on in-depth interviews with women suffering from anorexia and bulimia. Employing a variety of influential socio-cultural theories, Jelena Balabanić Mavrović closely relates various environmental influences on the development of low self-esteem, poor self-image and body dissatisfaction to the shaping of normative femininity and the experience of gender socialization in Western society. Chapters also provide a detailed review of the socio-historical development of discourses and practices related to anorexia and bulimia, including ‘healthism’, the war on obesity, and other current trends. Providing a new perspective on female identity, Eating Disorders in a Capitalist World offers a complete insight into the world of eating disorders in today’s society, exposing how new forms of freedom for women have also become new forms of self-surveillance.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. In-Depth Interviews with Women with Eating Disorders Chapter 3. Development of Eating Disorders in the Socio-Historical Context Chapter 4. Socio-cultural Theories of the Development of Eating Disorders (Anorexia and Bulimia) Chapter 5. Research on Contemporary Social Changes and Eating Disorders Chapter 6. Gender Roles and the Body Chapter 7. Thematic analysis Chapter 8. Insecure Femininity Chapter 9. The Despised vs. The Idealized Man Chapter 10. The Body is the Fundamental Determinant of a Female Identity Chapter 11. Magical Food - The Morality of Food Consumption Chapter 12. Independent Meanings of Binge Eating and Vomiting Chapter 13. Spontaneous Eating and Using Food against Internal Chaos Chapter 14. A Healthy Diet and Exercising – Disorder or Health? Chapter 15. The Context of Growing Up: Confirmation of the Biopsychosocial Model of the Emergence of the Disorder Chapter 16. Final Discussion

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Book SynopsisEating disorders know no boundaries. They don't discriminate.Every story of living with an eating disorder is unique. Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate brings together thirty-one of them, each tackling the stereotypes and misconceptions about what eating disorders look like and who they impact.Athletes, activists, directors, models, health professionals, and more share their experiences of eating disorders, including binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, ARFID and OSFED, and highlight the complexities of how race, gender, culture and social media can influence our experiences of body and food.Compiled by Dr Chuks Nwuba, who has cared for some of the UK's most unwell eating disorder patients, and TikToker and eating disorder advocate Bailey Spinn, this stirring anthology is one of hope and encouragement for anyone who feels misunderstood and underrepresented. With writing from:Rachael Alder-Byrne - Molly Bartrip - Sophie Baverstock - Hana Brannigan - Cynthia Bulik - Dianne Buswell - Lee Chambers - Dave Chawner - Sam Clark-Stone - Megan Jayne Crabbe - James Downs - Shannon Dymond - Emme - Becky Excell - Lindsey Holland - Bobby Kasmire - Sam Layton - Amalie Lee - Raffela Mancuso - Ro Mitchell - Bayadir Mohamed-Osman - Smriti Mundhra - George Mycock - Marilyn Okoro - Nigel Owens - Jasmine C. Perry - Laura Mae Ramsey - Lara Rebecca - Kristina Saffran - Selly - Ryan Sheldon - Clare Steedman - Afftene Ceri Taylor - Amanda Taylor - Eva Trujillo - Hope Virgo - Jessica Wilson Trade ReviewEating Disorders Don't Discriminate is a glorious book that not only serves to show the wide ranging impact of eating disorders, but also brings these experiences to life through giving a voice to people who may not have seen themselves represented in eating disorder dialogue until now. An important, refreshing and essential read. -- Cara Lisette, CBT therapist, Registered Mental Health Nurse and author of The Eating Disorder Recovery JournalEating Disorders Don't Discriminate is an essential book that doesn't just focus on the medical or scientific aspects of disordered eating, but rather plants its roots in the humanness of it all. A humanness that is most often missed in conversations like these -- and is desperately needed to be felt by anyone who has battled an eating disorder or helped a loved one on their own journey. -- Zach Stafford, Tony Award-winning producer of A Strange LoopThe work of Dr Chuks and Bailey is so incredibly important for highlighting how eating disorders can affect any gender, race, age or ethnic background and addresses the myths and misconceptions when it comes to eating disorders and their presentation. -- Dr Hazel Wallace, Sunday Times Best-Selling Author and Founder of the The Food Medic

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Book SynopsisDo your patients resist behavior change? Do you need tips and tools to help empower your patients on the road to better health? This guide will help you move your patients toward change. Topics include the transtheoretical model and stages of change; the chronic care model; motivational interviewing; goal setting; and building long-term support for patients.

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