1st Edition

Counselling for Eating Disorders in Women A Person-Centered Dialogue

By Richard Bryant-Jefferies Copyright 2006
192 Pages
by CRC Press

192 Pages
by CRC Press

Counseling for Eating Disorders in Women focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family. Women with problems connected with over-eating, under-eating, and poor eating form a significant proportion of counselors’ lists with a distinctive set of problems and challenges. This book adopts the unique approach of the... Read more
Part 1: Beginnings and difficulty in disclosure. Reflecting on expressions of concern for a client's health and well-being. More history and a bad day. Exploring why? Feeling low, everything's a struggle, need to get a life. Supervision - the need to accept the whole client. Four sessions of the client coming to terms with her life. The client experiences a revelation about herself. Part 2: Client reacts to the counselors honesty, wants to leave and nearly passes out. Disclosures from the client's past. Supervision. The internal world begins to break down. I'll try. That's all I can say. I'll try. Who am I now? Reflections. Rogers seven stages of constructive personality change. Contacts.

Biography

Richard Bryant-Jefferies