Treating Eating Disorders: Ethical, Legal and Personal Issues - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0814787541 ISBN 13: 9780814787540

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

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.

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The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful, and therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care of their patients, such as transference, and difficulties in dealing with the patient's family. This volume discusses the pressure and responsibility faced by practising therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Central themes are the legal, ethical and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the sex of the therapist affects treatment.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0814787541
• ISBN 13: 9780814787540
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 286
• Redattore: Vandereycken Walter, Beumont Pierre J. V.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile