Eating Disorders > Professional/Educator/Parent

This insightful book examines different types of eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating, and discusses causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention. It comes with up-to-date information and first-hand accounts shed light on the body image and eating disorders that are becoming increasingly common in adolescence.

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A Proven-Effective, Step-by-Step Guide to End Your Battle with Food and Satisfy Your Soul. In The Emotional Eating Workbook , you'll learn about the real psychological needs that underlie your food cravings, how to meet those needs in positive ways, be mindful of your body, and find the deep satisfaction many overeaters seek in food. The Anchor Program approach detailed in this book is not about dieting. It's about being anchored to your true, authentic self. When you find your unique anchor, you will relate better to your body, you'll know intuitively how to feed your body, and you'll reach the weight that's right for you.

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A Proven Program to Break the Cycle of Bingeing and Out-of-Control Eating Grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this motivating guide offers a powerful pathway to change. Drs. Debra L. Safer, Sarah Adler, and Philip C. Masson have translated their proven, state-of-the-art treatment into a compassionate self-help resource for anyone struggling with bingeing and other types of "stress eating."

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This ground-breaking book gives clinicians a new set of tools for helping people overcome binge-eating disorder and bulimia. It presents an adaptation of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) developed expressly for this population. The treatment is unique in approaching disordered eating as a problem of emotional deregulation. Step-by-step guidelines are provided for implementing DBT skills training in mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance, including a specially tailored skill, mindful eating.

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This workbook teaches readers a healthier coping mechanism for dealing with their feelings called dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Using skills drawn from this proven approach, along with motivational interviewing, readers learn to regulate their emotions in effective ways that are healthy for mind and body. Worksheets and exercises throughout the book help readers put new skills like commitment, mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness into practice. This book also helps readers identify and address mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression, that are often comorbid with bulimia.

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A Guide to Recovery This intimate self-help guidebook offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. It includes a two-week program to stop bingeing, ideas for things to do instead of bingeing, a guide for support groups, specific advice for loved ones, and "Eat Without Fear," Lindsey Hall's story of her self-cure, which has inspired thousands of other bulimics. This 25th anniversary edition updates all information from previous editions, with additional material on assessment, new diagnostic categories, men and bulimia, evidence-based treatment, family-assisted recovery, the influence of media (including the Internet), the essentials of "long-term recovery," and much more.

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Do you feel like your eating gets out of control? When it comes to food, does it feel like your life is controlled by cycles of deprivation and bingeing? Whether or not you've been formally diagnosed with a binge-eating disorder, you know that something needs to change. But like many disorders, what helps one person may not help another. That's why. The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help you take charge of your eating habits.

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Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions Checking and rechecking one's appearance in the mirror may be more than vanity; it could be a sign of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. This condition can lead to unnecessary plastic surgery, eating disorders, steroid abuse, even suicide. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is highly treatable. This workbook contains cognitive-behavioral techniques that are provided in a step-by-step, easy-to-follow format. The authors are experts in the field of OCD and offer this book as a guide through a proven intervention plan.

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