Main description:

Effective Eating Disorders Treatment offers a comprehensive theoretical background designed to facilitate understanding of how eating disorders develop, guidance on establishing therapeutic alliances, and also identifies key interventions that have been proven to be effective. Readers will also find empirically supported treatment approaches that go beyond traditional research by exploring influential dynamics of the clinical relationship such as perceptions of control, self-blame, choice, and treatment success. This engaging new volume also includes former patient reflections, which are intended to provide a more complete view of current eating disorder treatments and research.

Contents:

Foreword. Part I: Can You Really Help? 1. Addressing Eating Disorders Myths and Treatment Resistance. 2. Developing the Therapeutic Alliance. Part II: Successful Points of Intervention. 3. Is ED a Choice? 4. Externalizing ED. 5. Self-Blame vs Self-Responsibility 6. External vs Internal Loss of Control. 7. Understanding the Lens. 8. The True Self Emerges. Part III: Rounding Out the Treatment Process. 9. The Multidisciplinary Team. 10. Long-Term Clinical Success. References. Index.