Guide to Treating Anorexia Nervosa. A Family-Based Approach

The book provides practitioners with a clear foundation for mobilizing parents to facilitate their child's weight gain and return to normal eating, improve parent-child relationships, and redirect the adolescent's development. Each stage of the therapy presented in the book is described in detail, session by session. Detailed case illustrations show how to engage clients in the work, flexibly applying proven therapeutic procedures. This edition of the book discusses the latest research on AN and its treatment, including the general studies on which the approach presented here is based, clarifying key concepts and techniques, and describing many new clinical strategies. This indispensable guide presents leading empirically supported approaches to treating adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). The approach described in this book stands out in that it places a central role throughout the therapy process on the parents, siblings, and the patient. The book provides practitioners with a clear foundation for mobilizing parents to facilitate their child's weight gain and return to normal eating, improve parent-child relationships, and redirect the adolescent's development. Each stage of the therapy presented in the book is described in detail, session by session. Detailed case illustrations show how to engage clients in the work, flexibly applying proven therapeutic procedures.