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100 Questions & Answers About Eating Disorders

Author(s): Carolyn Costin, PhD, MA, MEd, Monte Nido Residential Center
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763745004
  • ISBN-10:0763745006
  • Paperback    221 pages      © 2007
Price: International Sales $24.95 US List
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Overview

Approximately 3 percent of all females suffer from anorexia and up to 4 percent suffer from bulimia in their lifetimes. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient with an eating disorder, or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from an eating disorder, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Eating Disorders gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions. Written by an expert on the subject, with "insider" commentary from actual patients, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone struggling with the medical, psychological, or emotional turmoil of this condition.

 

100 Questions & Answers About Eating Disorders is like having a conversation or consultation in the office of a 30 year veteran of eating disorders, asking 100 of the most important questions and only paying the price of the book for it.

 

People from all over the country come to have consultations and clinics with the author. This book gives you  her insight and expertise on 100 of the most frequently asked questions in simple conversational language.

 

ShowTable of Contents

Part 1: Overview of Eating Disorders

Part 2: Medical Issues Associated with Eating Disorders

Part 3: What Causes an Eating Disorder?

Part 4: Getting Help

Part 5: When to Consider a Treatment Program

Part 6: Philosophical Approaches to Treating Eating Disorders

Part 7: Guidelines for Families and Significant Others

Part 8: Getting Better

Part 9: Preventing Eating Disorders

Part 10: Alternative Treatments

 

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Carolyn Costin, PhD, MA, MEd-Monte Nido Residential Center

Carolyn Costin, Marriage and Family Therapist, has been treating eating disorders since l977. Her extensive experience in the field and her own personal recovery from anorexia nervosa enhance her understanding of these complex disorders. Carolyn is the founder and director of the Eating Disorder Center of California, and two residential treatment centers for eating disorders, Monte Nido in Malibu, California and Rain Rock in Eugene, Oregon. In addition to her other responsibilities, Carolyn is well known as a passionate presenter on eating disorders, appearing as a keynote speaker at national conferences and sought after by the media as an expert on these illnesses. Her other books, The Eating Disorder Source Book and Your Dieting Daughter, have helped professionals and the lay public in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of eating and body image problems. To contact Carolyn, email her at mntc@montenido.com or visit her main website at www.montenido.com.

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