Beating Eating Disorders Step by Step: A Self-Help Guide for Recovery

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Author:
Paterson, Anna
Number of Pages:
224
ISBN-13:
9781843103400
ISBN-10:
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03/15/2007
Publisher:
Singing Dragon
Beating Eating Disorders Step by Step: A Self-Help Guide for Recovery - ISBN: 9781843103400
People living with eating disorders find it hard to take the step of choosing recovery, often because the disorder has developed as a way of `coping' with problems or stresses in the their life. This book outlines new and positive ways of dealing with eating disorders for people living with eating disorders and their families. A practical workbook written by someone who has lived with eating disorder, it provides advice and strategies to aid understanding and to help the reader to gain control of their illness. Anna Paterson leads the reader through easy-to-use therapeutic exercises, such as describing the pros and cons of an illness, writing a farewell letter to it, and using role-reversal scenarios to get a new perspective on their attitude to eating. She emphasizes the importance of taking things at your own pace and in the final section of the book provides a set of diet plans specifically designed for anorexics, bulimics and compulsive overeaters. This book will be valued by people living with eating disorders and their families, and also the psychologists and psychotherapists, counsellors, health professionals and social workers who work with them.