| Description |
1 online resource (227 pages) |
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Cover; Clinician's Guide to: Getting Better Bit(e) By Bit(e); Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Clinician's Guide to Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e); Introduction; The Therapeutic Relationship; Introducing Bit(e) by Bit(e); Theoretical Background About Behaviour Change; Facilitating Change; Essentials of Motivational Interviewing; Guidelines for Motivational Interviewing; The Goal of the Therapeutic Alliance; The First Meeting; Written Feedback; Sessions 1-3; Difficulties with Change; Core Values: Goal Setting; Moving into Action; Commitment to Change; Sessions 4-8: Action |
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Interpersonal DifficultiesTermination of Treatment; Relapse Prevention; Case Report 1.; Case Report 2.; Appendix: Workbook-Motivational Enhancement Therapy; Worksheet 1: To Change or Not to Change?; Worksheet 2: Is Change Reasonable?; Worksheet 3: Difficulties of Change; Worksheet 4: Future Times; Worksheet 5: Plans for Change; Worksheet 6: What Should I Weigh?; Worksheet 7: What Do I Need to Eat?; Worksheet 8: Stuck in the Dieting Pit; Worksheet 9: The Web of Life-Interpersonal Difficulties; References |
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Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e) A Survival Kit for Sufferers of Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating DisordersIntroduction; 1. The Way Forward; Do I Suffer from Bulimia?; How to Use this Book; First Steps; Back to the Future; Making Your Decision to Go; How to Stage Your Journey; 2. Tools for the Journey; How to Keep a Therapeutic Diary; New Skills to Cope with Old Difficulties; Further Reading; 3. Dieting: A Health Warning; Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder; What Weight Is Healthy?; The Health Hazards of Dieting; How Much Do I Need to Eat? |
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Working with Your Body to Obtain Your Optimal Weight and ShapeHow to Relearn Eating Control; 4. Bingeing, Nibbling, and Compulsive Overeating: The Black Hole of the Never-satisfied Stomach; Why Is My Eating Uncontrolled?; How to Stop Binges; Lapses; 5. Vomiting, Laxatives, and Diuretics: Have Your Cake and Eat it-Or Not?; Facing the Facts; Why You Are Right to Worry; What Type of Weight Controller Are You?; How to Stop Vomiting; How to Stop Abusing Laxatives, Diuretics and Other Medications; 6. Learning to Feel Good about Your Body; Learning about Body Shapes; Getting to Know Your Body |
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Looking after Your BodyLiving with Your Body; Note; Further Reading; 7. Jack Spratt's Wife: Being Fatter May be Better; The Health Risks of Being Overweight; Pie in the Sky; Only the Lonely; Shake, Shake, Shake Your Body; Further Reading; 8. Relapse: Walking In Circles-Or Not?; Preventing Slips from Occurring; What to Do if a Slip Occurs; A Woman's Work Is Never Done-or Is It?; 9. The Wounds of Childhood; Sexual Abuse; Trying to Make Sense of It; Grapple with Guilt and Self-blame; Will the Effects Always Be There?; Get a Toehold onto Trust; Coming to Terms; Further Reading |
| Summary |
The publication four years ago of Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e), written by two eating disorder specialists at London's world-famous Maudsley Hospital, was a milestone in the treatment of bulimia. For the first time a self-help book was shown, by rigorous clinical trials, to cure a significant fraction of women suffering from bulimia, and to reduce the therapist contact time needed by others. Getting Better Bit(e) by Bit(e) offered an efficient way of treating bulimic patients, which would be valued by any resource-conscious health service. The authors of <EM |
| Notes |
10. Food for Thought |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bulimia.
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Bulimia
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Bulimia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmidt, Ulrike
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| ISBN |
9781135816049 |
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1135816042 |
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