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What Every Therapist Needs to Know
About Treating Food and Weight Issues
Product Code: WET
Availability: In stock. Price: $25.00 240 pg, paper, ‘08 Therapists often encounter clients with mild to moderately troubling eating and weight issues, less severe than anorexia, bulimia, or binge-eating disorder. They emerge as minor themes that lurk behind major presenting problems such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, and marital discord, and therapists who aren’t looking for them may miss opportunities to address them. Koenig provides practitioners with clinical strategies and therapeutic techniques to help explore their clients’ feelings about food and their bodies in order to get at the root of these issues. Packed with insights and practical tips, this unique book teaches clinicians how to help clients make peace with food and the scale and balance nutrition and exercise inn a healthy lifestyle. CONTENTS: 1 – A Comprehensive Approach to Treating Eating, Weight, and Body Image Issues ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., has worked as a specialist in the psychology of eating for 30 years. She lectures and teaches widely and has a private therapy practice in Sarasota, Florida. REVIEWS: “As an expert in bridging the chasm between the emotional and physical aspects of eating and weight issues, Koenig gives us a comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing those concerns that are interwoven into every aspect of our clients’ lives. I love this book and have not seen anything like it out there. “I loved this book! Koenig has successfully created an important resource for both the experienced clinician and the everyday practitioner. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the seriousness of an individual’s struggle to maintain a healthy relationship with food and his or her body. A unique and practical guide, it is an important addition to the field of eating disorders.” |
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