100 Questions & Answers About Eating Disorders: . (100 Questions and Answers About...) - Softcover

Costin, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763745006 ISBN 13: 9780763745004

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2007

Synopsis

Approximately 3 percent of all females suffer from anorexia and up to 4 percent suffer from bulimia in their lifetimes. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient with an eating disorder, or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from an eating disorder, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Eating Disorders gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions. Written by an expert on the subject, with

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About the Author

Carolyn Costin, Marriage and Family Therapist, has been treating eating disorders since l977. Her extensive experience in the field and her own personal recovery from anorexia nervosa enhance her understanding of these complex disorders. Carolyn is the founder and director of the Eating Disorder Center of California, and two residential treatment centers for eating disorders, Monte Nido in Malibu, California and Rain Rock in Eugene, Oregon. In addition to her other responsibilities, Carolyn is well known as a passionate presenter on eating disorders, appearing as a keynote speaker at national conferences and sought after by the media as an expert on these illnesses. Her other books, The Eating Disorder Source Book and Your Dieting Daughter, have helped professionals and the lay public in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of eating and body image problems. To contact Carolyn, email her at mntc@montenido.com or visit her main website at www.montenido.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763745006
• ISBN 13: 9780763745004
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221