Eating Disorders For Dummies
Eating Disorders For Dummies

Author: Susan Schulherr

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1118052218

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Do you think that you or someone you love may suffer from and eating disorder? Eating Disorders For Dummies gives you the straight facts you need to make sense of what’s happening inside you and offers a simple step-by-step procedure for developing a safe and health plan for recovery. This practical, reassuring, and gentle guide explains anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder in plain English, as well as other disorders such as bigorexia and compulsive exercising. Informative checklists help you determine whether you are suffering form an eating disorder and, if so, what impact the disorder is having or may soon have on your health. You’ll also get plenty of help in finding the right therapist, evaluating the latest treatments, and learning how to support recovery on a day-by-day basis. Discover how to: Identify eating disorder warning signs Set yourself on a sound and successful path to recovery Recognize companion disorders and addictions Handle anxiety and emotional eating Survive setbacks Approach someone about getting treatment Treat eating disorders in men, children, and the elderly Help a sibling, friend, or partner with and eating disorder Benefit from recovery in ways you never imagined Complete with helpful lists of recovery dos and don’ts, Eating Disorders For Dummies is an immensely important resource for anyone who wants to recover — or help a loved one recover — from one of these disabling conditions and regain a healthy and energetic life.

Overcoming Binge Eating For Dummies
Overcoming Binge Eating For Dummies

Author: Jennie Kramer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-08-28

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1118550870

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Control binge eating and get on the path to recovery Overcoming Binge Eating for Dummies provides trusted information, resources, tools, and activities to help you and your loved ones understand your binge eating — and gain control over it. Written with compassion and authority, it uses stories and examples from the authors' work with clients they've helped to overcome this complicated disorder. In Overcoming Binge Eating For Dummies, you'll find information and insight on identifying the symptoms of binge eating disorder, overcoming eating as an addiction, ways to overcome the urge to binge, how to institute a healthy eating pattern, ways to deal with anxiety and emotional eating, and much more. Provides professional resources for seeking additional help for binge eating Includes advice on talking with loved ones about binge eating Offers tips and guidance to establish a safe and healthy recovery plan Overcoming Binge Eating For Dummies is for those currently suffering or recovering from BED, as well as families and friends looking for a comprehensive and expert resource to this widespread but largely misunderstood disorder.

Addiction and Recovery For Dummies
Addiction and Recovery For Dummies

Author: Brian F. Shaw

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-05-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1118069986

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Evaluate medications and treatment programs Break free from addictive substances or behaviors and get a fresh start Think you have an addiction? This compassionate guide helps you identify the problem and work towards a healthy, realistic approach to recovery, explaining the latest clinical and self-help treatments for both adults and teens. This book also offers tips on reducing cravings, handling your relationships, and staying well for the long run. Discover how to * Identify the reasons for addiction * Choose the best treatment plan * Handle slips and relapses * Detect addictions in a loved one * Find help and support

Talking to Eating Disorders
Talking to Eating Disorders

Author: Jeanne Albronda Heaton Ph.D.

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-07-05

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1440624984

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When a friend or family member shows signs of an eating disorder, the first impulse is to charge in, give advice, and fix what is wrong. But these tactics-however well-intentioned-can backfire. This compassionate guide offers ways to tackle the tough topics of body image, media messages, physical touch, diets, and exercise-along with a special section on talking about these issues with children. It includes information about when to get professional help, how to handle emergencies, and answers to difficult questions such as "Am I too fat?" or "Is this ok to eat?"

Medical Management of Eating Disorders
Medical Management of Eating Disorders

Author: C. Laird Birmingham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0521727103

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Now in its second edition, this established text provides the practical information needed to treat patients with anorexia nervosa and related eating disorders. It is suitable for all health care professionals involved in eating disorder management, with special information provided for general practitioners, nurses, family carers and nutritionists.

Pocket Guide for the Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders
Pocket Guide for the Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders

Author: James Lock, M.D., Ph.D.

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 2018-10-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1615371567

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An exceptionally practical book for clinicians who are interested in evaluating and treating eating disorders in children and adults, this guide provides expert guidance in a succinct and accessible format.

Help for Eating Disorders
Help for Eating Disorders

Author: Debra Katzman

Publisher: R.Rose

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780778801153

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Most teenagers have a friend who has been affected by an eating disorder. Such disorders affect almost 20% of teenage girls in North America at some point in their development. Magazines and movies constantly stress a thin body image as the defining force for popularity. The message teenagers get is that thin is the only route to popularity and happiness. Through the Eating Disorder Program, Drs. Katzman and Pinhas, at The Hospital for Sick Children, have developed a program that helps young people and their parents deal with the problems of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. First, the book shows parents how to identify an eating disorder and when to become concerned about it. Second, there is vital information for parents on how to become informed users of the health care system and how to collaborate in their child's treatment. Third, practical support for parents, family members and coaches enables them to participate in the recovery of a child or adolescent with an eating disorder. Worksheets, diaries and first-person case studies assists parents and caregivers to help youth overcome an eating disorder.

Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders
Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders

Author: David M. Garner

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 1997-04-18

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9781572301863

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Updated to reflect recent DSM categorizations, this edition includes coverage of binge-eating disorder and examines pharmacological as well as psychotherapeutic approaches to treating eating disorders.

Eating Disorders Explained
Eating Disorders Explained

Author: Frederick Earlstein

Publisher: NRB :Publishing

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781946286970

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Some people think that individuals with eating disorders just cry for attention or it is just a diet that went too far. Both are not true. This condition is a serious mental ailment. Compared to other psychiatric conditions, eating disorders have the highest death rate-studies show that suicidal rates for those that suffer from anorexia nervosa are at least 30 times higher. You may have heard of or know someone who has an extremely unhealthy eating and exercise habits in order to achieve a perfect body, and you want to help them. Or you may be overly concerned about your body shape and silently suffering an eating disorder, and you want to overcome it. This is the book for you! Eating Disorder Myths and Facts, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Stress Eating, Symptoms, Treatments, Health Tips and More!