Author: Jeffries, Hasan Kwame

Price: $23.84

Category:United States History
Publication Date:2010-08-02T00:00:01Z
Pages:372
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0814743315
ISBN:13:9780814743317
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.