380 pg, paper, '09

This book fills the gaps that currently exist in professional education and understanding of what sets eating disorder diagnosis and treatment apart from other disorders. Written by a psychotherapist with 40 years of experience in the field, the author stresses the role of health professionals and parents as pivotal advocates for the child in treatment and recovery. Offers a coherent, integrative treatment package within a sequential and systematic structure of care from diagnosis to recovery.

CONTENTS:

Section 1: Preparing Yourself to Treat Eating Disorders
1 – A Treatment Field in Transition: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
2 – Eating Disorders 101: Knowledge Is Power
3 – Soul Searching: Assessing the Personal Side of Professional Challenges

Section 2: Diagnostic Nuts and Bolts
4 – Eating Disorders and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
5 – Diagnosis of Eating Disorders: Seeing the Whole Picture
6 – Getting Started: Structuring the Diagnostic Process
7 – Diagnosing and Managing Eating Disorders, Feeding Disorders, and Picky Eating Syndrome in Young Children

Section 3: Tapping Treatment Resources
8 – The Therapist's Unique Use of Self Treatment
9 – Partnering for Success: Multidisciplinary Treatment Teamwork
10 – Treatment Modalities and Milieus: Integrating Diverse Resources

Section 4: The Eating Disorders Treatment Toolbox
11 – As the Brain Learns, People Change: Innovative Treatment Approaches That Work
12 – Structuring Eating Disorder Treatment: Laying the Foundation of Care
13 – Eating Disorder Treatment Methods and Approaches: Differentiating and Integrating Methodical Techniques
14 – Practical Building Blocks of Strategic Interviewing: Borrowing Freely From Diverse Treatment Approaches

Section 5: The Reality of Recovery
15 – Recovery, Aftercare, and Relapse: Sustaining the Integrity of the Healing Process Through the Long Haul

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Abigail H. Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP, is an expert in the treatment of eating disorders, treating groups and individuals for 35 years. Abigail is the founder and director of Eating Disorder Specialists of Illinois: A Clinic Without Walls and the author of When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers, and the e-book Doing what Works: A Professionals Guide for Treating Eating Disorders.

REVIEWS:

"Parts of the book should be integrated as mandatory reading for ALL beginning therapists, as I believe that in their quest to ‘use' as many theoretical models as possible from their classes in their daily practice, they often forget the most important contributor to positive outcomes in therapy…the integrative use of self."
— Kimberly Israel, LCSW, MPH, PPSC