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Book SynopsisCounseling for Eating Disorders in Women focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family. Women with problems connected with over-eating, under-eating, and poor eating form a significant proportion of counselors’ lists with a distinctive set of problems and challenges. This book adopts the unique approach of the Living Therapy series, using fictitious dialogue to illustrate the person-centered approach enabling the reader to experience directly the diverse and challenging issues surrounding patients. This is difficult to achieve with conventional text books. This book is invaluable for trainees and experienced counselors, members of support organizations, and women suffering from eating disorders, their friends and families.
Trade Review"'Excellent, innovative, helpful and very powerful. The strengths of this book are...the ease with which Richard is able to demonstrate how the theory of the person-centred approach can aid our understanding of a client with an eating disorder and how he can explain the potential process of change for someone with an eating disorder; secondly, I have been impressed by the depth of relationship that Richard is able to convey through the different sessions, even though the sessions themselves are fictitious, which felt powerful enough for the reader to be able to enter the experience as a 'fly on the wall' and very swiftly have an experiential understanding of the session. I value not only his style of writing but also his presentation of the person-centred approach in practice. This is a beautifully crafted and thought provoking book - a real gift.' Lorna Marchant, in the Foreword"
Table of ContentsPart 1: Beginnings and difficulty in disclosure. Reflecting on expressions of concern for a client's health and well-being. More history and a bad day. Exploring why? Feeling low, everything's a struggle, need to get a life. Supervision - the need to accept the whole client. Four sessions of the client coming to terms with her life. The client experiences a revelation about herself. Part 2: Client reacts to the counselors honesty, wants to leave and nearly passes out. Disclosures from the client's past. Supervision. The internal world begins to break down. I'll try. That's all I can say. I'll try. Who am I now? Reflections. Rogers seven stages of constructive personality change. Contacts.
