Parents with Eating Disorders: An Intervention Guide - Softcover

Sadeh-Sharvit, Shiri; Lock, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138293490 ISBN 13: 9781138293496

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This groundbreaking volume presents a new conceptual approach to treating adults with eating disorders and their children. By utilizing Parent-Based Prevention, a state-of-the-art intervention program from Stanford University for families who risk raising children in the context of parental eating disorders, Parents with Eating Disorders offers a practical, evidence-based manual to working with affected families with the goal of preventing disordered eating from being passed to future generations. Additional resources include intervention planning and self-assessment forms intended for clinicians to use as they implement the program.

About this title

About the Author

Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Visiting Instructor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Eating Disorders Research Program in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her clinical and research interests include eating disorders throughout the life cycle, family-based interventions, incorporating technology in mental healthcare, and clinical training.

James Lock, MD, PhD is Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also serves as Director of the Eating Disorder Program for Children and Adolescents at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Clinics. His work is foundational in family-based interventions for eating disorders in youth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138293490
• ISBN 13: 9781138293496
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204