Treating eating disorders : ethical, legal, and personal issues

Treating eating disorders : ethical, legal, and personal issues / edited by Walter Vandereycken and Pierre J.V. Beumont.

Covers the major areas of pressure and responsibility upon practising therapists in the treatment of eating disorders, including the problems of transference, dealing with the patient''s family, nursing care, issues of gender, compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed...

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Other Authors: Vandereycken, Walter, 1949-, Beumont, Pierre J. V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Athlone Press, 1998.
Series:Studies in eating disorders.
Subjects:
Eating disorders > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Eating disorders > Law and legislation.
Psychotherapist and patient.
Medical ethics.
Medical personnel and patient.
SELF-HELP > Eating Disorders.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Eating Disorders.
Medical personnel and patient
Medical ethics
Psychotherapist and patient
Eetstoornissen.
Therapieën.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Challenges and risks for health care professionals; 2 Knowable secrets: Transference and countertransference manifestations in eating disordered patients; 3 Gender of the therapist: Daring to ask the questions; 4 Personal experiences of a male therapist; 5 Families, therapists and family therapy in eating disorders; 6 Compulsory treatment of anorexia nervosa patients; 7 Food refusal, forced feeding and the law of England and Wales; 8 A plea against compulsory treatment of anorexia nervosa patients.
  • 9 Ethical considerations in the implementation of behaviour modification programmes in patients with anorexia nervosa: A historical perspective10 Counting the cash: Ethics and market forces in relation to the provision of treatment for eating disorders; 11 Treatment of eating disorders in the context of managed health care in the United States: A clinician''s perspective; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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