What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Treating Eating and Weight Issues

Koenig's book is written for practitioners who lack expertise in this area, and provides clinical strategies and therapeutic techniques to explore clients' feelings about food and their bodies to get at the root of these issues. It includes descriptions of how food and weight problems surface in conjunction with psychological and medical conditions, as well as how they create difficulties in various life stages and situations. Packed with insights and practical tips, this unique book teaches clinicians how to help clients make peace with food and the scale and balance nutrition and exercise in a healthy lifestyle.

About the author

Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is an expert on the psychology of eating--the why and how, not the what of it. She lives and practices in Sarasota, FL.

Summary

Explores the ways in which people express emotions through food and how to balance nutrition with enjoyment and lifestyle.

Product details

• Authors: Karen R. Koenig
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2008
• EAN: 9780393705584
• ISBN: 978-0-393-70558-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 157 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 378 g
• Series: Norton Professional Books (Pap; Norton Professional Books (Pap
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology