Counselling for Eating Disorders in Women: A Person-Centered Dialogue

by Richard Bryant-Jefferies

Overview

Counseling for Eating Disorders in Women focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family. Women with problems connected with over-eating, under-eating, and poor eating form a significant proportion of counselors’ lists with a distinctive set of problems and challenges. This book adopts the unique approach of the Living Therapy series, using fictitious dialogue to illustrate the person-centered approach enabling the reader to experience directly the diverse and challenging issues surrounding patients. This is difficult to achieve with conventional text books. This book is invaluable for trainees and experienced counselors, members of support organizations, and women suffering from eating disorders, their friends and families.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315345741
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/22/2017
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	346 KB

About the Author

Richard Bryant-Jefferies

Table of Contents

Part 1: Beginnings and difficulty in disclosure. Reflecting on expressions of concern for a client's health and well-being. More history and a bad day. Exploring why? Feeling low, everything's a struggle, need to get a life. Supervision - the need to accept the whole client. Four sessions of the client coming to terms with her life. The client experiences a revelation about herself. Part 2: Client reacts to the counselors honesty, wants to leave and nearly passes out. Disclosures from the client's past. Supervision. The internal world begins to break down. I'll try. That's all I can say. I'll try. Who am I now? Reflections. Rogers seven stages of constructive personality change. Contacts.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Nicholas Greco IV, MS, BCETS, CATSM, FAAETS (C3 Education and Research, Inc.)
Description: This exceptionally well written book walks the reader through the many facets of counseling clients with eating disorders. The author uses fictitious dialogue to illustrate the effectiveness as well as the complexity of the person-centered approach. This informative book mimics having your own supervisor beside you.
Purpose: The purpose of this book and this series is to illustrate and promote the person-centered dialogue, highlighting the events that occur during counseling sessions. Another worthwhile purpose is to inform and educate readers not only in this approach but in psychotherapy.
Audience: Both seasoned and new clinicians will benefit from this book as will graduate students new to the profession. The author is one of the foremost authorities on the person-centered approach, and his work is a testament to his expertise.
Features: The major highlight of this book is its design. Besides the customary introduction and foundational knowledge base on eating disorders, the book has two essential parts: Carol who struggles with binge-eating and Mandy who is severely underweight. Both are followed through numerous sessions with all of the ups and downs that naturally come about in therapy. The realism and attention to detail in these cases is rarely matched by other books.
Assessment: Once again the author has outdone himself with this excellent addition to the complex treatment of eating disorders. This is an exceptionally well written and realistic look at the implementation of the person-centered approach and an invaluable tool to have.

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