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1 online resource (230 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; About the Authors; Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Overview of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa; CLINICAL FEATURES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; ASSESSMENT OF THE EATING-DISORDERED PATIENT; Eating Behaviors; Overview and Initiating Factors; Weight History; Typical Daily Intake; Bingeing; Purging; Other Relevant Information; Medical and Psychological Complications; History of Emotional Disturbance; Medical History; Family History; Other Personal History; Recommendations for Physician Versus Nonphysician Therapists |
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GENERAL TREATMENT STRATEGIESInterventions to Normalize Eating; Focusing on a Nondieting Approach to Eating; Facilitating Patient Self-monitoring; Psychoeducation; Body Image/Weight and Shape; Family/Marital Relationships; Sexual/Physical Abuse; Other Issues; The Role of Medication; Vocational Considerations; SUMMARY; 2. Review of the Current Literature on Marriage and Eating Disorders; THE COUPLE PROFILE*; Wives; Husbands; RECURRENT THEMES; Eating Symptoms as a Distraction from Other Problems; Family-of-Origin Issues; Boundary Diffusion and Replication of the Family of Origin; Role Definition |
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The Importance of AppearancePower and Control; Avoidance of Intimacy and Sexuality; Sexuality; Sexual and Physical Abuse; Timing of the Onset of the Eating Disorder; Pregnancy and Childbirth; Parenting; MARITAL TREATMENT; Indications for and Contraindications to Marital Treatment; Marital Assessment Formats; Goals of Couple Treatment; Specific Treatment Techniques; Impasses in Treatment; Relapse and Prognosis; Relapse; Prognosis; Support Groups for Husbands; SUMMARY; 3. Marriage and Eating Disorders: A Bridge between Family and Couple Theory; FAMILY-OF-ORIGIN DYNAMICS |
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Behavioral Patterns in the Eating-Disordered Nuclear FamilyFamily Typologies; Attachment Dynamics in Eating-Disordered Families; Shame in Eating-Disordered Families; THE MARITAL DILEMMAS; Marriage and the Family Legacy; The Struggle for Security: Relational Power and Control; Gender and Sexuality; Intergenerational Pushes and Pulls; SUMMARY; 4. Assessment of the Couple; STAGES OF THE ASSESSMENT; Context of the Assessment; Reason for the Assessment; Couple's Understanding of the Eating Disorder; Couple History; Sexual History; Individual Histories; Boundary Issues-Marital/Interpersonal |
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Boundary Issues-Sexual abuseIntergenerational Boundaries; Genograms; Role of Food, Exercise, and Appearance in a Relationship; Problem-Solving Abilities; SPECIAL ISSUES; Meal Sessions as an Assessment Technique; Assessment Tools; Couples with Children; Families of Origin; Homosexual Couples; Contraindications to Treatment Beyond the Assessment; SUMMARY; 5. Brief Couple Treatment for Eating Disorders; BRIEF MARITAL TREATMENT; Overview; Inclusion and Boundaries; Control; Symptom Separation; Meal Sessions as an Intervention; Intimacy; SUMMARY; 6. Long-Term Treatment of Eating-Disordered Couples |
| Summary |
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
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ASSESSMENT |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Eating disorders -- Patients -- Family relationships
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Eating disorders -- Treatment
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Marital psychotherapy.
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Married people -- Mental health
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Divorce therapy.
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Marital Therapy
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Divorce therapy
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Eating disorders -- Patients -- Family relationships
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Eating disorders -- Treatment
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Marital psychotherapy
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Married people -- Mental health
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shekter-Wolfson, Lorie F
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Brandes, Jack S
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Lackstrom, Jan B
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Garfinkel, Paul E
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| ISBN |
9781317838944 |
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1317838947 |
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