- Hardcover: 284 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (Feb 15 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0787900532
- ISBN-13: 978-0787900533
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 581 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #431,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Using a wealth of clinical examples, and offering a creative array of techniques and strategies, McFarland has put together a practical, hands-on manual for dealing, in a time-effective manner, with clients struggling with eating disorders. This book will be a useful resource for clinicians in the trenches!" --Steven Friedman, Harvard Community Health Plan
"With this book, the eating disorders field has finally matured past describing the problem and developed a solution orientation. Traditionally, bulimic and anorexic clients have been viewed as difficult to help and long-term treatment candidates. McFarland shows there are ways to treat these problems efficiently and effectively.... Having treated eating disorders with traditional pathology-based and long-term approaches for many years, McFarland is a credible advocate of this new, more brief, and managed-care friAndly method. Extremely well-written and readable." --William Hudson O'Hanlon, coauthor, In Search of Solutions and A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy
"Barbara McFarland's book will empower clinicians and clients alike. With a masterful grasp of therapy trAnds, she distills her wisdom in years of treating this difficult problem and describes her own journey to more effective treatment. Clinicians will find a great deal of specific help and potent concepts." --Lynn D. Johnson, director, Brief Therapy Center, Salt Lake City
"In straightforward, clear, and pragmatic language, McFarland presents a model that focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses, on solutions rather than problems, and on hope rather than despair. Her book should be on the shelf of every clinician who works with clients who have eating problems." --Scott D. Miller, Brief Therapy Network
"An encouraging work that offers more realistic hope for the clients and recognizes and builds on their strengths. This book is recommAnded reading for anyone who has an interest in the treatment of eating disorders." --Maren Engel, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy
"With this book, the eating disorders field has finally matured past describing the problem and developed a solution orientation. Traditionally, bulimic and anorexic clients have been viewed as difficult to help and long-term treatment candidates. McFarland shows there are ways to treat these problems efficiently and effectively.... Having treated eating disorders with traditional pathology-based and long-term approaches for many years, McFarland is a credible advocate of this new, more brief, and managed-care friAndly method. Extremely well-written and readable." --William Hudson O'Hanlon, coauthor, In Search of Solutions and A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy
"Barbara McFarland's book will empower clinicians and clients alike. With a masterful grasp of therapy trAnds, she distills her wisdom in years of treating this difficult problem and describes her own journey to more effective treatment. Clinicians will find a great deal of specific help and potent concepts." --Lynn D. Johnson, director, Brief Therapy Center, Salt Lake City
"In straightforward, clear, and pragmatic language, McFarland presents a model that focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses, on solutions rather than problems, and on hope rather than despair. Her book should be on the shelf of every clinician who works with clients who have eating problems." --Scott D. Miller, Brief Therapy Network
"An encouraging work that offers more realistic hope for the clients and recognizes and builds on their strengths. This book is recommAnded reading for anyone who has an interest in the treatment of eating disorders." --Maren Engel, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy
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In straightforward, clear, and pragmatic language, McFarland presents a model that focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses, on solutions rather than problems, and on hope rather than despair. Her book should be on the shelf of every clinician who works with clients who have eating problems.
--Scott D. Miller, Brief Therapy Network
Drawing from her own clinical experience, Barbara McFarland demonstrates how solution-focused brief therapy is one of the more efficient approaches in treating eating disorders. Her practical, hands on strategies and interventions guides you through each step of the treatment process.
--Scott D. Miller, Brief Therapy Network
Drawing from her own clinical experience, Barbara McFarland demonstrates how solution-focused brief therapy is one of the more efficient approaches in treating eating disorders. Her practical, hands on strategies and interventions guides you through each step of the treatment process.
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This review is from: Brief Therapy and Eating Disorders: A Practical Guide to Solution-Focused Work with Clients (Hardcover)
This is a very well written and professionally informative book.The drawback to most professional works dealing with counselling practice is the way the information is presented--often much incisive information but presented without what I term the practical thread of application.This book is written intelligently and is immensely practical, a genuine pleasure to read.The author explains why she uses solution based short therapy and then reviews other methods of counselling, discusses each area of the process with case histories of anorexics,bulimics and so on plus their family interactions.My practice involves a general medicine practice ,with large chunks of family counselling interspesed, and this book is so useful both for initial assessment and management of eating disorders and many other aspects of life for teens and adults.It cannot sort out all patient issues and there are of course, referrals onwards,but it has worked very well for many of my patients.The astounding thing for many doctors is that so many of our patients have eating issues and we can offer so much by some of the simple steps in this book, which does not assign blame to any one, but instead actually makes patients sit back in wonder and lead "alternate lives" as the book puts it.We are often so guilty of ignoring the tentative feelers put out by patients as to "other concerns" of theirs,extending beyond medication, and this book offers the best first steps and often all the steps that are required.It will not tie up hours of your time,and yet leaves you with a sense of having helped your patient beyond medication,and referring them onwards at the appropriate time if need be. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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This review is from: Brief Therapy and Eating Disorders: A Practical Guide to Solution-Focused Work with Clients (Hardcover)
This is a very well written and professionally informative book.The drawback to most professional works dealing with counselling practice is the way the information is presented--often much incisive information but presented without what I term the practical thread of application.This book is written intelligently and is immensely practical, a genuine pleasure to read.The author explains why she uses solution based short therapy and then reviews other methods of counselling, discusses each area of the process with case histories of anorexics,bulimics and so on plus their family interactions.My practice involves a general medicine practice ,with large chunks of family counselling interspesed, and this book is so useful both for initial assessment and management of eating disorders and many other aspects of life for teens and adults.It cannot sort out all patient issues and there are of course, referrals onwards,but it has worked very well for many of my patients.The astounding thing for many doctors is that so many of our patients have eating issues and we can offer so much by some of the simple steps in this book, which does not assign blame to any one, but instead actually makes patients sit back in wonder and lead "alternate lives" as the book puts it.We are often so guilty of ignoring the tentative feelers put out by patients as to "other concerns" of theirs,extending beyond medication, and this book offers the best first steps and often all the steps that are required.It will not tie up hours of your time,and yet leaves you with a sense of having helped your patient beyond medication,and referring them onwards at the appropriate time if need be. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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