Eating Disorders: The Journey to Recovery Workbook

by Laura J. Goodman, Mona Villapiano

Overview

The widely updated second edition of Eating Disorders: Journey to Recovery Workbook helps those struggling with eating disorders in their recovery, guiding the reader through a greater consideration of body image, compulsive exercising, and personal and societal relationships based on Prochaska’s Stages of Change Theory. The workbook explores complicated issues having a direct effect on the eating disorder, including trauma, depression, gender identity, abuse, and the media. Updated to include the acknowledgement of binge-eating disorder, selective eating, and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), this second edition encourages self-paced learning and practice adjunct to one-on-one and group therapy from two seasoned clinicians in the treatment of eating disorders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815384182
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/14/2018
Edition description:	New
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Laura Goodman, LMHC has spent the past 25 years working as a licensed mental health counselor, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. In addition to psychotherapy services, Ms. Goodman’s practice also includes consultation services, in-service trainings, and speaking engagements in the field of eating disorders and related fields.

Mona Villapiano, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. Over the past 35 years, Dr. Villapiano has treated hundreds of clients and their families while also developing and directing inpatient, partial hospital, and evening treatment programs. Recently retired from clinical work to move to San Francisco to care for her grandson, Dr. Villapiano continues to write and do research in the field of eating disorders.

Table of Contents

Dedication Introduction Preface Acknowledgements 1. How to Use this Workbook 2. Guiding Your Journey: The Tree, the Web, and the Box 3. What You Need to Know About Eating Disorders 4. Your Relationship with Food 5. The Female Body: Spirituality and Religion 6. The Female Body: History of Size and Thinness 7. Body Image 8. Your Relationship with Exercise 9. Women’s Issues 10. Men’s Issues 11. LGBTQ+ Issues 12. Substance Abuse and Eating Disorders 13. Trauma and Abuse 14. Special Circumstances: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Depression, Diabetes, Celiac and Other Autoimmune Diseases, and PANDAS 15. The Treatment Team 16. Adjunctive Treatments and Practices: Meditation, Mindfulness, Yoga, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or Tapping Technique), and Acupuncture 17. Media Madness 18. For Families, Friends, and Loved Ones 19. Concluding Your Journey: The Tree, Web, and Box Revisited Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Jennifer J Halvorson, MS, RD (Chicago Center for Clinical Research)
Description: This is a self-paced workbook targeted for those with eating disorders to help them take an active role in their treatment process. The workbook can be used alone or in conjunction with counseling.
Purpose: The purpose is to offer a person with an eating disorder a way to further explore his or her relationship with food. The educational material and the thought-provoking exercises provide a means for analyzing current eating behaviors and offers guidance on making behavior changes. This is an important contribution to this field, and the authors clearly meet their objectives.
Audience: This well designed workbook is geared for eating disorder sufferers who desire additional self-help therapy; however, mental health professionals will find the exercises helpful to compliment therapy discussions. The authors, who have extensive experience in this field, provide a credible knowledge base for this book.
Features: The workbook offers easy to understand educational material on major issues affecting those with eating disorders. Following the educational topics are insightful exercises that help explore these issues on a personal level. In addition, the book is filled with personal stories from recovered eating disorder clients who share their painful struggles in the uphill battle to recovery. The resources and references at the end of the workbook, which include useful Internet sites, offer the reader other avenues to seek information.
Assessment: This is a very useful workbook for those with eating disorders and for mental health professionals to use in conjunction with counseling. It is a valuable resource that provides an opportunity for a client to explore personal issues and offers useful tools to be used in a self-paced fashion.

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