What Does Eating Disorder Recovery Look Like?
Answers to Your Questions about Therapy and Recovery
Published on 21. August 2023
208 pages
978-1-83997-219-5 (ISBN)
Description
Do you have questions about eating disorders that you are afraid to ask? How about questions you did ask, but couldn't get an answer to?
From the causes of eating disorders to the most effective treatment approaches, this guide offers honest answers to difficult questions. Drawing on their experience supporting young people and adults with eating disorders, the authors provide insight into treatment and share information about recovery that is often harder to find.
Ideal for individuals and families at every stage of the recovery process, this book is relevant and sensitive to all types of eating disorder and has been developed to include insights from first-hand experience, alongside expert guidance. It also acknowledges the specific questions families, carers and non-medical professionals might have, helping them to understand the recovery process and better support others.
From the causes of eating disorders to the most effective treatment approaches, this guide offers honest answers to difficult questions. Drawing on their experience supporting young people and adults with eating disorders, the authors provide insight into treatment and share information about recovery that is often harder to find.
Ideal for individuals and families at every stage of the recovery process, this book is relevant and sensitive to all types of eating disorder and has been developed to include insights from first-hand experience, alongside expert guidance. It also acknowledges the specific questions families, carers and non-medical professionals might have, helping them to understand the recovery process and better support others.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-83997-219-5 (9781839972195)
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Lucia Giombini | Sophie Nesbitt
What Does Eating Disorder Recovery Look Like?
Answers to Your Questions about Therapy and Recovery
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08/2023
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Persons
Lucia Giombini and Sophie Nesbitt are Clinical Psychologists specialising in supporting young people and adults with eating disorders. They are based at Rhodes Wood Hospital, a specialist inpatient unit for childhood and adolescent ED in Hatfield, UK. Both authors are associate fellow members of the British Psychological Society, and work in private practice within their own clinics.
Content
- Intro
- What Does Eating Disorder Recovery Look Like?
- Cover
- Of related interest
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Why This Book?
- Why and how we have written this book
- Our letter
- 2. What Are Eating Disorders?
- Eating disorders are difficult to understand
- What are eating disorders?
- Different types of eating disorders
- What causes eating disorders?
- How common are eating disorders?
- The COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on eating disorders
- Risk assessment and the importance of physical risk management
- Treatment approaches
- 3. What Is So Important about Food?
- Why does food become the enemy?
- Food to survive
- Food to be (or not to be) with others
- Food to feel
- 4. Why Don't I Like My Body?
- I have a body, I am my own body
- The development of body image
- The inability to see ourselves
- The obsession to see ourselves
- 'You won't hurt me any more!'
- 5. Is Recovery Possible?
- The meaning of recovery
- Perspectives on recovery
- Living with and tolerating uncertainty
- 6. What Happens in Therapy?
- The therapeutic process: A circular pathway
- The initial phase of therapy
- Aspects of the therapeutic relationship
- What do we talk about in therapy?
- From managing the eating disorder symptoms...
- ...to searching for meaning
- Your emotional needs are important
- The pitfalls of comparison
- Perfectionism
- 7. When Does Therapy End?
- Before ending
- Therapeutic endings
- Afterword
- References
- Index
