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The Radically Open DBT Workbook for Eating Disorders: From Overcontrol and Loneliness to Recovery and Connection
By Astrachan-Fletcher, Ellen
By Hall, Karyn D.
By Simic, Mima
Foreword by Lynch, Thomas R.
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 224
Publisher New Harbinger Publications
A groundbreaking workbook to help you develop healthy coping strategies, build a solid support network, and stay on the path to recovery.If you've been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors. However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders of overcontrol (OC).With this compassionate workbook, you'll learn how to move beyond the unhealthy coping strategies that keep you feeling isolated and lonely, find tips for building a solid support network and enriching social connections, and develop your own personalized plan for staying on the path to recovery. You'll also find assessments to help you determine the root cause of your OC disorder, exercises for increasing social engagement, and skills for improving social flexibility, trust, and intimacy.Having an eating disorder can make you feel like you're alone in the world. Even if you're in recovery, you may have days when feelings of isolation a
By Astrachan-Fletcher, Ellen
By Hall, Karyn D.
By Simic, Mima
Foreword by Lynch, Thomas R.
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 224
Publisher New Harbinger Publications
A groundbreaking workbook to help you develop healthy coping strategies, build a solid support network, and stay on the path to recovery.If you've been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors. However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders of overcontrol (OC).With this compassionate workbook, you'll learn how to move beyond the unhealthy coping strategies that keep you feeling isolated and lonely, find tips for building a solid support network and enriching social connections, and develop your own personalized plan for staying on the path to recovery. You'll also find assessments to help you determine the root cause of your OC disorder, exercises for increasing social engagement, and skills for improving social flexibility, trust, and intimacy.Having an eating disorder can make you feel like you're alone in the world. Even if you're in recovery, you may have days when feelings of isolation a