Effective Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

The Heart of the Matter

Margo Maine, William N. Davis, Jane Shure, Margo Maine, William N. Davis, Jane Shure

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9781135924997
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book is the first to address what really happens behind closed doors during eating disorders treatment, as most writing has only addressed theoretical approaches and behavioral strategies. The field has long needed a book that describes the heart of the matter: the therapeutic interventions and interactions that comprise life-changing treatment for this life-threatening disorder. In response to this need, the authors have created a book that reflects the individual therapeutic skills and the collective wisdom of senior clinicians, all of whom have years of experience treating anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Intended to be a deeply thoughtful and instructive volume, Effective Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Heart of the Matter demonstrates the depth, complexity, and impact of the therapeutic process. In particular, the book articulates and explores essential points of information, issues, insights and unresolved questions about eating disorders treatment. Effective Clinical Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders describes and explicates important treatment issues and themes in a nuanced, highly contextualized and qualitative manner.The bookoffers a significant reference for both novice and seasoned therapists, and it includes specific information that will serve to inform and mentor future generations of eating disorders clinicians.

Index

A

Abuse

addressing in family context, 105

emotional, 246–247

within family, 99

physicalization exercise example, 154

Academy for Eating Disorders, xiii

Acceptance

installation in group therapy, 114

of therapist’s body image, 182–183

Action stage, 223

Acupuncture, 67

Addictions

within family, 99

and research on shame, 163–164

Adolescents, feminist-oriented group therapy for, 111, 116–117

Adrenaline, reduction through yoga practice, 70

African-American women of size, 193, 194–195

range of size acceptance for, 199–200

Alienation, from body and disowned self, 146

Altruism, installation in group therapy, 114, 123

Ambivalence, towards recovery, 85

American Holistic Integrative Medical Association (AHIMA), 64

American Psychiatric Association’s Practice Guidelines, 9–10

and importance of therapeutic relationship, 82

Amino acids, 71

Amplification, through guided imagery, 135

Anesthetization, through eating disorders, 26

Anger

in couples therapy, 246–247

as defense against shame, 244

difficulties in releasing, 243

effects on breathing, 133

managing with forgiveness, 243–244

and premature forgiveness, 236

transforming to compassion and self-acceptance, 235, 238

Anorexia nervosa, 3

attempts to disappear in, 242

body image in, 181

case example, 247

chronicity of, 7

denial of anger in, 243

distrust of therapists in, 82

dread of fatness in, 36

and feelings of inadequacy, 87

healing power of love in, 73–74

heritability of, 211

high mortality rates with, 83

importance of accurate diagnosis, 72

individual psychotherapy for, 35–36

individualized meaning of, 220

as maladaptive effort at self-protection, 37

perfectionism in, 239–240

perfectionist families in, 239

pursuit of thinness in, 36

rigid thinking and body in, 157

unenforceable rules in, 239–240

as way of communicating about family problems, 97

Antidepressants, 73–74, 207, 209. See also Psychotropic medications

Anxiety, 211

management by meditation, 152

mindfulness meditation fo...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Senior Editor
• Editors
• Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Section One: Effective Clinical Practices: Approaches
• Section Two: Effective Clinical Practice: Methods
• Section Three: Effective Clinical Practices: Special Themes
• Index