Treating Eating Disorders: A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787903302 ISBN 13: 9780787903305

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1996

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A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique

This unique volume details how some of the most eminent clinicians in the field combine and integrate a wide variety of contemporary therapies--ranging from psychodynamic to systemic to cognitive behavioral--to successfully treat clients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorders. Filled with up-to-date information and important approaches to assessment and treatment, the book offers a hands-on approach that cogently illustrates both theory and technique. Joellen Werne places the eating disorders in their current sociocultural context, highlights recent findings from clinical research, and discusses the major theoretical models that inform current practice.

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JOELLEN WERNE M.D., is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

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Through the presentation of individual cases, this book offers up-to-date information and important approaches to assessment and treatment of clients with eating disorders. The book offers a hands-on approach detailing the unfolding of a case in all its complexity which cogently illustrates both theory and technique. As contemporary treatment continues to move in the direction of embracing multiple perspectives, Treating Eating Disorders will prove to be an invaluable resource.

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Since first identified almost fifty years ago, the complex nature of treating eating disorders has been well documented. To be effective, clinical treatments must address the many dimensions of the symptomsbehavioral, cognitive, intrapsychic, interpersonal, and medical.Treating Eating Disorders details how some of the most eminent clinicians in the field combine and integrate a wide variety of contemporary therapies to successfully treat clients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorders. Through the in-depth presentation of individual cases, thoughtfully discussed within the context of each author's point of view, the book offers up-to-date information and important approaches to assessment and treatment of clients with eating disorders. Joellen Werne, editor of Treating Eating Disorders, places the eating disorders in their current sociocultural context, highlights recent findings from clinical research, and discusses the major theoretical models that inform current practice. The eleven contributors utilize a variety of therapies (individual, group, family, couple, in- and outpatient or day treatment settings), either singly or in combination, and draw on theoretical frameworks ranging from psychodynamic to systemic to cognitive behavioral. The book offers a hands-on approach detailing the unfolding of a case in all its complexity that cogently illustrates both theory and technique.This unique volume provides professionals with** a variety of treatment models that combine diverse theoretical concepts and techniques into approaches that can be responsive to patients' differing needs

• detailed examples of two treatment modalitiesgroup and individualthat are patterned on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• two family treatments conducted from a systemic perspective, and several further examples of successful family involvement integrated within other, primarily psychodynamic, therapies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787903302
• ISBN 13: 9780787903305
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378
• Herausgeber: Werne Joellen, Yalom Irvin D.
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar