| The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook: Your Comprehensive, Step-By-Step Guide to Recovery Contributor(s): McCabe, Randi E. (Author), McFarlane, Tracy L. (Author), Olmsted, Marion P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1572243260 ISBN-13: 9781572243262 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2004 Annotation: Severe dieting often results in periods of reactive binge eating--a phenomenon experienced by one in twenty American women. Responses to these episodes may include prolonged fasting, self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and obsessive exercise: all symptoms of bulimia. This workbook contains proven-effective tools to help bulimics break the cycle of bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior changes. By working through the exercises, they normalize eating and deal with whatever issues underlie the symptoms. Recovering bulimics take control of their recovery process with a variety of self-monitoring assessments. Real-life examples offer encouragement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Eating Disorders & Body Image |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| LCCN: 2004272061 |
| Series: New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 8.52" W x 10.98" (1.22 lbs) 225 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Severe dieting often results in periods of reactive binge eating, a phenomenon experienced by one in twenty American women. Responses to these periods may include prolonged fasting, self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and obsessive exercise: all symptoms of bulimia. This workbook contains tools to help bulimics break the cycle of bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior changes. Practical advice and real-life examples reinforce attitudes and offer encouragement. Discover that it is possible to overcome the disorder and live a happier, more fulfilling life. Through their cutting-edge research at the internationally renowned Toronto Hospital Eating Disorders Program, the authors of The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook have developed a step-by-step program for recovery whose efficacy has been proven in clinical trials. The authors empower bulimia suffers to take control of their lives, not only by providing information and advice, but by giving them a personalized format with which they can put these new behavior changes into practice - a process that is critically important for lasting recovery. This comprehensive guide covers everything from bulimia's symptoms, causes, and risks to how to normalize eating, shift eating-disordered thoughts, build on personal strengths, improve self-esteem, deal with underlying issues, prevent relapse, and understand what medications can help. With many real-life examples, this book also helps readers learn through the experiences of other sufferers how to overcome their disorder and live a happier, more fulfilled life. |
Contributor Bio(s): McCabe, Randi E.: - Randi E. McCabe, PhD, is psychologist-in-chief and director of the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton. She is also associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioural neurosciences at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. |