Eating Disorders Sourcebook

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• Introduction1. From Diet to Disorder: Problems and Prognosis2. Young, White, and Female: Myth or Reality?3. Activity Disorder: When a Good Thing Goes Bad4. Genes or Jeans: What Causes Eating Disorders?5. Eating Disorder Behaviors are Adaptive Functions6. Assessing the Situation7. Treatment Philosophy and Approaches8. Individual Therapy: Putting the Eating Disorder out of a Job9. Sharing the Pain and the Promise in Group10. Enough About Your Mother, What did You have to Eat Today?11. Medical Assessment and Management12. The Psychiatrist’s Role and Psychotropic Medication13. When Outpatient Treatment is Not Enough14. Alternative Approaches to Eating Disorders15. To Those Who Love Them: Guidelines for Significant Others16. Increasing Awareness and PreventionAppendices

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