Advanced Brief Strategic Therapy for Young People with Anorexia Nervosa

Name: Advanced Brief Strategic Therapy for Young People with Anorexia Nervosa
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Advanced Brief Strategic Therapy for Young People with Anorexia NervosaAn Effective Guide for Clinicians\nAuthor(s): Giorgio Nardone, Elisa Valteroni\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367467876, 978-0367467876\nSynopsis\nThis important new book details a strategic and systemic model for short-term therapy with adolescent su?erers of anorexia nervosa, a psychopathology that seduces patients into starvation as doctors and family look on with increasing desperation. Supported by the successful treatment of hundreds of cases over the past 30 years, the book is the culmination of a long-term intervention programme developed at the Strategic Therapy Centre of Arezzo, Italy.\n\nIt begins by outlining the range of di?erent eating disorders, before identifying the speci?c characteristics that adolescents with anorexia present. The variations of the pathology are then discussed. Not all patients present with the same sympto.