The eating disorder sourcebook : a comprehensive guide to the causes, treatments, and prevention of eating disorders /
Carolyn Costin.
- 3rd ed.
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007.
- xvi, 334 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-328) and index.
From diet to disorder : problems and prognosis -- Young, white, and female : myth or reality? -- Activity disorder : when a good thing goes bad -- Genes or jeans : what causes eating disorders? -- Eating disorder behaviors as adaptive functions -- To thoes who love them : guidlines for family and significant others -- Assessing the situation -- Treatment philosophy and approaches -- Individual therapy : putting the eating disorder out of a job -- Sharing the pain and the promise in group -- Family therapy : working with families and significant others -- Enough about your mother, what did you have to eat today? -- Medical assessment and management-- The psychiatrist's role and psychotropic medication -- When outpatient treatment is not enough -- Alternative approaches to eating disorders -- Increasing awareness and prevention.
Provides information and guidance for sufferers of eating disorders or exercise addiction; people close to them; or treatment professionals, discussing the underlying causes of these disorders, treatment options, expectations in individual, group, and family therapy, and what to do if outpatient treatment is not enough.