Recovery from Eating Disorders: A Guide for Clinicians and Their Clients - Hardcover

Noordenbos, Greta

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118469208 ISBN 13: 9781118469200

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

With a uniquely perspective on the key factors in recovery from eating disorders, this practical guide for patients and clinicians draws from relevant, real-life case studies.

• Focuses on real-life recovery strategies that involve motivational factors, physical and psychological health, and issues such as self-esteem, body attitude, emotion regulation and social relationships.
• Draws on extensive qualitative research with more than 80 former sufferers
• Offers experience-based guidance for professionals assisting clients in their recovery process

About this title

About the Author

Greta Noordenbos is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Founder of the Dutch Commission for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, she has contributed to health policy in the field and has co-edited Dutch language titles Handbook of Eating Disorders (2008) and The Prevention of Eating Disorders (1998).

From the Back Cover

Recovering from eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa is a long and difficult process, which Recovery from Eating Disorders charts through the testimony of former patients who have battled these conditions – and won. Full of insight and personal revelation, these case histories exemplify above all else that full recovery is possible.

Aimed at readers on both sides of the clinical process, whether patients or health professionals, the guide provides a detailed survey of successful approaches to tackling eating disorders, showing how these contribute to finely calibrated strategies for physical, psychological and social recovery. It includes material covering every stage of the eating disorder cycle, from warning signs to the conditions that sustain the improvements in health and quality of life that are in each case so hard-won.

From the Inside Flap

Recovering from eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa is a long and difficult process, which Recovery from Eating Disorders charts through the testimony of former patients who have battled these conditions – and won. Full of insight and personal revelation, these case histories exemplify above all else that full recovery is possible.

Aimed at readers on both sides of the clinical process, whether patients or health professionals, the guide provides a detailed survey of successful approaches to tackling eating disorders, showing how these contribute to finely calibrated strategies for physical, psychological and social recovery. It includes material covering every stage of the eating disorder cycle, from warning signs to the conditions that sustain the improvements in health and quality of life that are in each case so hard-won.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118469208
• ISBN 13: 9781118469200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174