Emma Gray

Beating Your Eating Disorder: a Cognitive-Behavioral Self-Help Guide for Adult Sufferers and their Carers: General points to help normalize your food intake

academic work 175; see also cognitive changes acceptance, of body image 84, 87, 91 accreditation of clinicians 121 achievement, sense of 26 action (starting to change) 25; see also time for action active listening 104–5 advantages of eating disorders see pros and cons Aesop’s fable 104 alcohol 2, 60, 69 alertness 151; see also cognitive changes anorexia; see also eating disorders complications 156–8 physiology (biology) 54 Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous 149 anticipating obstacles 35–6 anti-contemplation 24, 104 anxiety 34, 48, 141 carers 102 CBT self-help program 49–50 challenging 71 exposure 78–9 apathy 151; see also cognitive changes application to self-help program xii–xiii, 13, 48, 59, 106; see also making time for therapy approaching the sufferer 100 assertiveness 38 assessment, preparation for forma 115–16 assumptions, dysfunctional see beliefs atypical cases 6, 12, 19 Australian organizations, eating disorder support 149 automatic thoughts/behavior 60, 71, 72, 75 avoidance 49, 88, 99; see also safety behaviors

Beating Your Eating Disorder: a Cognitive-Behavioral Self-Help Guide for Adult Sufferers and their Carers: Have I done myself permanent damage?

Preface: read this bit first Part I. Getting Started: 1. Who is this book for? 2. The key elements of cognitive-behavioural therapy and the self-help approach 3. How to use this book Part II. For the Sufferer: 4. Am I making a fuss about nothing? 5. Motivating yourself to treat your eating disorder 6. Is now the time to act? 7. Getting started with CBT Part III. The CBT Self-Help Programme: 8. Start here: how to use this programme 9. The practical steps of CBT for your eating disorder Part IV. For Carers: 10. Am I to blame for the eating problem? 11. What can I do to support the sufferer? Part V. Transitions into More Formal Help: 12. Thinking about getting more formal therapeutic help 13. Starting the process of getting formal therapeutic help 14. What to look for in a good CBT practitioner 15. The role of carers in the transition to more formal help Part VI. Letting Go of the Eating Disorder: 16. The journey of recovery 17. Relapse prevention 18. Have I done myself permanent damage? 19. Carers need to move on too Conclusion: eating normally again References and further reading Appendices Index.