Weight Control - A Guide for Counselors and Therapists

Specialists join forces in this new volume to offer a complete, practical guide for understanding and treating obesity and eating disorders. The contributors provide a solid background on the problem, give relevant, detailed discussions of prominent issues, and suggest treatment methods from case studies. With this book in hand, professional counselors including social workers, psychologists, nutritionists, psychiatrists, nurses, dieticians, and health directors will have the information they need to handle specific problems of weight control.

About the author

AARON M. ALTSCHUL is Director of the Diet Management and Eating Disorders Program and Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Medicine, and Community and Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Product details

• Authors: Altschul Aaron
• Assisted by: Aaron M. Altschul (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.1987
• EAN: 9780275926977
• ISBN: 978-0-275-92697-7
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine, MEDICAL / Nutrition, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, Dietetics & nutrition, Dietetics and nutrition, Clinical & internal medicine, Clinical and internal medicine, Health and Wellness: Nutrition and Healthy Living