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Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder
August 30th, 2009
This Skills-based learning for caring for a loved one with an eating disorder: The new Maudsley method book will help you cope better with the challenge of helping your loved one recover. Although intended for carers, this book should be mandatory reading for professionals involved in the treatment of people with an eating disorder. - Eric F. van Furth, Ph.D. President, Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), Clinical Director, Center for Eating Disorders, Leidschendam, The Netherlands
This book will be a wonderful resource for parents, friends and families of those who suffer from eating disorders. - Kitty Westin, President, The Anna Westin Foundation
Few books provide specific guidance for family members about how they can help their children, siblings, partners, and spouses who are struggling with an eating disorder. This book is an exception.- James Lock, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Stanford University and author of Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
The combination of practical suggestions, real life situations and a sound theoretical basis in the Maudsley model make this book invaluable for any family with a loved one struggling to overcome an eating disorder. - Susan Ringwood, Chief Executive Officer of beat
In bygone days parents were blamed when a young person developed an eating disorder. The authors dismiss this injustice and instead focus on carers learning the skills necessary to help those they care for overcome their eating disorder. The advice is subtle and is derived from the practical experience of professionals treating sufferers from eating disorders. – Gerald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, The Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
I would highly recommend that health professionals buy this manual and in turn recommend it to anyone involved in the care of someone with an eating disorder. It is the type of book the whole family can benefit from. - Gillian Todd, Psychological Medicine, Vol. 39, 2009
Product Description
Skills-based Learning for Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support and encourage those suffering from an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery.
Through a coordinated approach, this book offers information alongside detailed techniques and strategies, which aim to improve professionals' and home carers' ability to build continuity and consistency of support for their loved ones. The authors use evidence-based research and personal experience, as well as practical support skills, to advise the reader on a number of difficult areas in caring for someone with an eating disorder. These include:
- working towards positive change through good communications skills
- developing problem solving skills
- building resilience
- managing difficult behavior.
This book is essential reading for both professionals and families involved in the care and support of anyone with an eating disorder. It will enable the reader to use the skills, information and insight gained to help change eating disorder symptoms.
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Surviving an Eating Disorder
August 29th, 2009
This book, Surviving an Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends, addresses these concerns in a thorough and straightforward way. Its authors, all skilled clinicians, bring both their expertise and compassion to an area in which meaningful dialogue is often difficult. They understand the importance of being able to recognize the early signs of an eating disorder and provide concrete guidance toward that end.
Their sensitivity to both caregivers and prospective patients makes this book highly accessible and eminently useful to those on both sides of the problem. I have and will continue to recommend it with great confidence.
Surviving an Eating Disorder has become a classic since it was first published in 1988. It was one of the first books to offer effective support and solutions for family, friends, and all others who are the "silent sufferers" of eating disorders. This updated and revised edition provides the latest information on how parents, spouses, friends, and professionals can thoughtfully determine the right course of action in their individual situations.
With its combination of information, insight, case examples, and practical strategies, Surviving an Eating Disorder opens the way to new growth and helpful solutions in your relationship with your loved one.
About the Author
Michele Siegel, Ph.D., initiated the idea for this book and was co-founder with Judith Brisman of the Eating Disorder Resource Center. She died in 1993.
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Common Eating Disorders
August 10th, 2009
Below are the most common eating disorders found. The three most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Some sources say that binge eating is the most common eating disorder nowadays, however anorexia and bulimia have been common eating disorders for a very long time.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Anorexia Nervosa is the eating disorder whereby the anorexic person self imposed fasting or dieting with severe weight loss that is at least 15% below the recommended weight.
People with anorexia nervosa will be over exercising in an attempt to lose weight. They are obsessed with eating diet food, not eating at all, and weighting themselves often. Anorexia Nervosa can lead to severe malnutrition, brain damage, sterility, damage to vital organs, heart failure and even death.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
Severe Bulimia Nervosa is a worse eating disorder than Anorexia Nervosa. People with Bulimia Nervosa will eat, possibly a large amount of food quickly. However, they will vomit it all out. Vomiting, emetics, laxatives, diuretics and diet pills are common tools for people with Bulimia Nervosa.
Bulimic people usually have fluctuating weight and very unhealthy. However, there are different level of Bulimia Nervosa and usually people don't have the severe case of Bulimia Nervosa and light treatment is enough to cure this eating disorder.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Binge eating disorder will make people eat large amount of food in an uncontrollable way. During a binge episode, patients will eat fast and eat a lot of food until they are extremely full. After the binge episode, patients may feel guilty of eating too much food, eating bad food, and embarrassed. Many people eat too much food until they are overly full but that does not mean they have a binge episode.
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