The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties: A Comprehensive Guide from Professional and Personal Perspectives - Softcover

James Downs

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191341468X ISBN 13: 9781913414689

Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

A practical guide to the experience and treatment of eating difficulties…

Over the last thirty years, eating difficulties have become increasingly prevalent across the UK and worldwide. Written by clinicians, therapists and researchers, as well as those affected by eating difficulties and their families, this comprehensive book explores practical ways to help people with eating difficulties to live and thrive in their communities. It recognizes all experiences of eating difficulties as equally valid and worthy of support, and seeks to provide those with personal experience of these issues with comfort, affirmation, empowerment, a sense of agency and hope.

The chapters cover a huge range of important topics, including the role of social media and the fashion industry, eating difficulties in the context of autism, and how best to support the LGBTQ+ community and those from diverse religious backgrounds. It explores the value of exercise, nutrition and sleep, and considers support from parents and schools for children. A range of treatment options are also considered and evaluated, from established routes like CBT and inpatient care to more creative approaches such as writing, dance and equine therapy.

About this title

About the Author

JAMES DOWNS is a mental health campaigner and expert by experience in eating difficulties. He holds various roles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and NHS England aimed at improving support for those experiencing mental health problems and their carers.

MARK HOPFENBECK is an anthropologist, assistant professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Individual Partner at the Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.

HANNAH LEWIS is a researcher at Queen Mary, University of London where she studies prevention strategies for eating difficulties and body dysmorphic disorder – both of which she has lived experience of. She also delivers mental health and resilience training for charities.

ISLA PARKER is a freelance editor and writer who promotes the understanding of health issues and well-being. Her interest in how literature explores illness has led to her writing a novel for teenagers about anorexia, loosely based on her own experience.

NICOLE SCHNACKENBERG divides her time between working as an educational psychologist and her position as a trustee of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation. She is also a director of the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance and a trustee of the Give Back Yoga Foundation UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191341468X
• ISBN 13: 9781913414689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Mark Hopfenbeck, Hannah Lewis, Isla Parker, Nicole Schnackenberg