The overweight patient : a psychological approach to understanding and working with obesity / Kathy Leach.

By:

Leach, Kathy, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Jessica Kingsley, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781846425202
1846425204
1280738030
9781280738036
9786610738038
6610738033

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Overweight patient.DDC classification:

616.39806 22

LOC classification:

RC628 .L357 2006eb

NLM classification:

2006 J-544
WD 210

Other classification:

44.91

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Contents:

The Overweight Patient; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Obesity and Therapy; 2 Cultural and Parent Influences on Decisions Regarding Weight; 3 Clinical Considerations in Working with the Overweight Patient; 4 Losing Weight, Maintaining Loss and Regaining Weight; 5 Inquiry and Diagnosis; 6 Ego States; 7 The Parent Ego State; 8 The Child Ego State; 9 The Adult Ego State; 10 Psychological Hungers; 11 Games; 12 The Creation of the Body and Eating Functions as Defense Structures; GLOSSARY OF CLINICAL AND TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS TERMS; REFERENCES; RECOMMENDED READING; SUBJECT INDEX.

Summary: This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive methods to increase patients' sense of self-worth, self-knowledge, and motivation to lose weight. The Overweight Patient explores the underlying beliefs and behaviours that may contribute to obesity, including psychological needs, addiction, fear of deprivation, parental influences and sexual fears. Kathy Leach draws a useful distinction between the need to eat and the need to maintain a large body size, and addresses the reasons for both long-term obesity and short-term weight g.

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This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive methods to increase patients' sense of self-worth, self-knowledge, and motivation to lose weight. The Overweight Patient explores the underlying beliefs and behaviours that may contribute to obesity, including psychological needs, addiction, fear of deprivation, parental influences and sexual fears. Kathy Leach draws a useful distinction between the need to eat and the need to maintain a large body size, and addresses the reasons for both long-term obesity and short-term weight g.