Books
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"8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder"
By: Carolyn Costin & Gwen Grabb
8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder is a unique and personal look into Carolyn's "Keys" to overcoming an eating disorder and finding true recovery. Carolyn, and co-author Gwen Grabb, bravely share their unique stories of suffering from, and eventually overcoming, their own severe eating disorders. Using self-disclosure and clinical expertise, Costin and Grabb walk readers through the ins and outs of the recovery process, describing what therapy entails, clarifying the common associated emotions such as fear, guilt, and shame, and, most of all, providing motivation to seek help if you have been discouraged, resistant, or afraid.
Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled depth of awareness into just what it takes to successfully beat this challenging and seemingly intractable clinical issue. This book offers hope to readers that full recovery is possible.
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"8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder"
By: Carolyn Costin & Gwen Grabb
8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder is a unique and personal look into Carolyn's "Keys" to overcoming an eating disorder and finding true recovery. Carolyn, and co-author Gwen Grabb, bravely share their unique stories of suffering from, and eventually overcoming, their own severe eating disorders. Using self-disclosure and clinical expertise, Costin and Grabb walk readers through the ins and outs of the recovery process, describing what therapy entails, clarifying the common associated emotions such as fear, guilt, and shame, and, most of all, providing motivation to seek help if you have been discouraged, resistant, or afraid.
Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled depth of awareness into just what it takes to successfully beat this challenging and seemingly intractable clinical issue. This book offers hope to readers that full recovery is possible.
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"Your Dieting Daughter: Antidotes Parents can Provide for Body Dissatisfaction, Excessive Dieting, and Disordered Eating"
By: Carolyn Costin
Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman's development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30. Costin has updated the first edition of this book to reflect her 15 additional years of expertise on dealing with the tricky issues of body image, food, and weight in a culture that places an unhealthy emphasis on being thin. Whether you are interested in being a good role model for you daughter, helping girls and women who are currently suffering from an eating disorder or body image issues, or raising the next generation of girls to value the size of their heart over their body size, this is a book not to be missed.
"The Eating Disorder Sourcebook"
By: Carolyn Costin
The Eating Disorder Sourcebook is a comprehensive resource for patients, professionals, and families who suspect or know that an eating disorder is affecting their lives. The Eating Disorder Sourcebook third edition includes: A chapter on the sociocultural, psychological and biochemical causes of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
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Special topic chapters on males with eating disorders, exercise addiction, medication, and medical management.
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The delineation of assessment and therapeutic techniques with how to and what to expect chapters on individual, group and family therapy.
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How to get the right help and how to choose professional including therapists, doctors, and dietitians.
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Explanations of the variety of treatment options available: outpatient, inpatient, residential etc., including a review of nationally known treatment programs.
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A guide for recovery and what to expect for professionals, patients and families including excerpts from patient's journals and transcribed therapy sessions.
"100 Questions &
Answers About Eating Disorders"
By: Carolyn Costin
There are many thorough but complex academic books on eating disorders. There are also first person accounts on the subject. This book like all of Carolyn Costin's work is academic but personal and easy to read. It serves as a quick reference guide to anyone wanting to learn more about eating disorders.
When a sufferer or loved one has an eating disorder, quick simple to understand help is needed right away. Carolyn's style is friendly and warm and although she covers important professional information she does it with the confidence and expertise acquired over 30 years of personal experience. Carolyn includes her own insights as well as providing readers with the voice of clients themselves. This makes 100 Questions a personal book about a very personal topic. This book has also been translated into Croatian.
"Yoga and Eating Disorders: Ancient Healing for Modern Illness"
Yoga and Eating Disorders bridges the knowledge and practice gaps between mental health providers and yoga practitioners who work with clients suffering from disordered eating. Combining the wisdom of 20 experts in eating disorders treatment and yoga practice, this invaluable resource explores the use of yoga in therapy, ways yoga teachers can recognize and respond to disordered eating, recovery stories, research into yoga's impact on symptoms, and much more.
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