This is a practical guide to the medical complications and treatment of anorexia nervosa and related eating disorders. A user-friendly structure allows the reader to access information on the basis of physical complaint (e.g. chest pain) or body system (e.g. neurological or respiratory). Practical guidance is provided on history taking, physical, and laboratory examination, and looking after special categories of patients such as prepubertal, males, adolescents, and during pregnancy. The principles and practice of treatment are fully covered including medical and nutritional therapies. Psychiatric and psychological issues are also addressed and provide details of specific psychological therapies. The text is supplemented with diagnostic colour photographs of important physical manifestations of eating disorders. Although the text is suitable for all health care professionals looking after these patients, special information is provided for general practitioners, nursing staff and family carers and including the patients themselves.
Medical Management of Eating Disorders (Cambridge Medicine)
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'The strength of this book is that it combines expertise of medicine and psychiatry to produce a practical guide to the medical complications and management of AN and related disorders. This book can serve as a reference textbook and partly as a manual for consultation. All in all, the authors have succeeded in producing a highly practical and comprehensive guide to the medical complications and management of AN and related disorders. Hong Kong Medical Journal
'A major strength is the quality and breadth of the information provided … scores highly on user-friendliness … clearly written with the reader in mind … valuable reading to all staff new to the field of eating disorders, to the medical and nursing staff of my in-patient eating disorder unit, to interested general practitioners and practice nurses, to paediatric services, to dieticians, to keen medical students and to some patients and parents.' Psychological Medicine
'This is very much a book for a range of professionals who need an accessible and ready source of information regarding the medical complications of the eating disorders, at their fingertips. It is also a useful introductory text … I found this book accessible and easy to use for answering quick medical queries or concerns (as I had hoped!). The use of case examples was valuable in bringing clinical material to life. … This book has achieved its author's goals of being both a reference textbook and a manual for consultation.' European Eating Disorders Review
'A major strength is the quality and breadth of the information provided … scores highly on user-friendliness … clearly written with the reader in mind … valuable reading to all staff new to the field of eating disorders, to the medical and nursing staff of my in-patient eating disorder unit, to interested general practitioners and practice nurses, to paediatric services, to dieticians, to keen medical students and to some patients and parents.' Psychological Medicine
'This is very much a book for a range of professionals who need an accessible and ready source of information regarding the medical complications of the eating disorders, at their fingertips. It is also a useful introductory text … I found this book accessible and easy to use for answering quick medical queries or concerns (as I had hoped!). The use of case examples was valuable in bringing clinical material to life. … This book has achieved its author's goals of being both a reference textbook and a manual for consultation.' European Eating Disorders Review
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This is a practical guide to the medical complications and treatment of anorexia and related eating disorders. It covers medical and nutritional therapies and psychiatric and psychological aspects including psychological therapies. It is suitable for all health care professionals looking after these patients.
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Lots of people are self styled "weight loss gurus" or academic "head in the clouds" researchers and they very rarely cover both sides of the issues involved around eating disorders...
Although this book is written by two academics it needs to be read by the "weight loss gurus" and translated into "laymans terms".
It helps to remember there is more than one perspective when working with eating disorders or weight loss / gain issues.
This book is one of the most comprehensive and specialised books on this subject and is a really good resource because of the way it is set out.
Part one covers the medical perspective and it is interesting that dieting can be a form of mis-management rather than the answer. It has a very good section on history taking / initial consultation and also the issues that occur by bodily system function and what the physical complaints will be. I have a very good friend who suffers with sleep apnea and yet is unaware of this even when pointed out so it's not as simple as just knowing...
Part two covers treatment and principles and the common problems that occur - especially around nutrition.
Part three is about special issues such as diabetes or specific populations - male - adolescent - pregnant etc.
Part four covers psychiatric and psychological stuff - physical disease and mental illness and also the interventions of choice. Be aware that interventions of choice is not the same as what works...
Part five is called areas of special interest and covers areas where the two authors really shine - especially around anorexia - not surprising really because Laird and Pierre have over 50 years of experience in this area.... Read more ›
Although this book is written by two academics it needs to be read by the "weight loss gurus" and translated into "laymans terms".
It helps to remember there is more than one perspective when working with eating disorders or weight loss / gain issues.
This book is one of the most comprehensive and specialised books on this subject and is a really good resource because of the way it is set out.
Part one covers the medical perspective and it is interesting that dieting can be a form of mis-management rather than the answer. It has a very good section on history taking / initial consultation and also the issues that occur by bodily system function and what the physical complaints will be. I have a very good friend who suffers with sleep apnea and yet is unaware of this even when pointed out so it's not as simple as just knowing...
Part two covers treatment and principles and the common problems that occur - especially around nutrition.
Part three is about special issues such as diabetes or specific populations - male - adolescent - pregnant etc.
Part four covers psychiatric and psychological stuff - physical disease and mental illness and also the interventions of choice. Be aware that interventions of choice is not the same as what works...
Part five is called areas of special interest and covers areas where the two authors really shine - especially around anorexia - not surprising really because Laird and Pierre have over 50 years of experience in this area.... Read more ›
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