Treating Eating Disorders: Ethical, Legal, and Personal Issues

by W. Vandereycken (Editor), P. J. V. Beaumont (Editor)

Overview

The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care fo their patients, from transference to difficulties in dealing with the patient's family.
Treating Eating Disorders addresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the gender of the therapist affects treatment figure centrally in this invaluable navigational guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814787540
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	12/01/1998
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Walter Vandereycken is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology Institute, Catholic University of Louvain and Clinical Director, Centre for Behaviour Therapy, Alexanian Psychiatric Hospital, Tienen, Belgium. He is the co-author of From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation.

P. V. J. Beaumont is Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Editorial Reviews

Addresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Vandereycken (psychiatry, U. of Leuven) and Beumont (psychiatry, U. of Sydney) explore legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and the influence exerted by the gender of the therapist. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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