Treating Eating Disorders

Ethical, Legal, and Personal Issues

298 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: NYU Press
• ISBN: 9780814787533
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.1998
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: NYU Press - IPS
• Herausgegeben von: P. J. V. Beaumont, W. Vandereycken