Product Description: More and more clinicians as well as researchers realize that anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa often are extremely difficult to treat and that the short-term outcome can be very misleading. In many cases these disordersprevail for a long period of time and can have serious consequences for the patient's further life...read more

Product Description: This practical guide describes a wide variety of therapeutic methods and strategies for treating bulimia nervosa on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. The flexible framework presented is governed by pragmatism rather than by an ideology and reflects the extensive clinical experience and research of a multidisciplinary team...read more

Product Description: Few topics in the field of eating disorders engender as much emotional debate as that of prevention. Too often, preventative plans against eating disorders are highly praised, but not carried out in practical actions. It is often easier and more immediately fulfilling to focus on treatment and not to wait for the long-term effects of prevention, despite the fact that treatment alone does nothing to reduce the incidence of eating disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Covers the major areas of pressure and responsibility upon practising therapists in the treatment of eating disorders, including the problems of transference, dealing with the patient's family, nursing care, issues of gender, compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities and terminal care...read more