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Treatment Manual for Anorexia
Product Code: TMP
Availability: In stock. Price: $30.00 270 pg, paper, ‘01 This practical manual offers a step-by-step guide to the treatment of anorexia nervosa in adolescents. Using the Maudsely method of family-based intervention, the book focuses on mobilizing parents and siblings as a resource. The approach is ideal for weight restoration and improved parent-adolescent relationships, and the book features detailed intervention guidelines and samples of therapy sessions with dialogue and clinical notes. The Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa will enhance the practice of child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapists, and others working with patients who have eating disorders. CONTENTS: 1 – Introduction and Background Information on Anorexia Nervosa ABOUT THE AUTHORS: James Lock, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Daniel le Grange, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of Chicago. W. Stewart Agras, MD, is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Christopher Dare, MD, is a Reader in Psychotherapy and Head of the Section of Psychotherapy at the Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, at the Maudsley Hospital in London. REVIEWS: "This book is an important addition to the literature on the treatment of anorexia nervosa. It provides an authoritative and detailed description of the Maudsley method, the leading family-based treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa. The book will be an invaluable resource for clinicians for years to come." "Family-based treatment is one of the few demonstrably effective interventions for anorexia nervosa. This treatment manual explains the development of this approach and, even more important, provides a detailed description of how it can be implemented. Lock and his colleagues have provided practitioners with a most useful tool to assist their patients.” |
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