The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care fo their patients, from transference to difficulties in dealing with the patient's family.
Treating Eating Disorders addresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the gender of the therapist affects treatment figure centrally in this invaluable navigational guide.
ISBN: 9780814787533
ISBN-10: 0814787533
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 1st December 1998
Publisher: New York University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 2.9
Weight (kg): 0.386