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Preventing Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges
Author(s): Niva Piran (Editor), Michael Levine (Editor), Catherine Steiner-Adair (Editor)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 1999
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 370 pages
- ISBN-10: 0876309686
- ISBN-13: 9780876309681
Book Description
This comprehensive resource provides multiple prevention strategies, programs, and approaches for health and mental health workers, educators, researchers, students, and interested members of the community at large who work to prevent eating disorders and related problems.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The strong connection between theory and research, the broad ranging and innovative examples of preventive intervention programs, and the specific recommendations for research and implementation, combine to make this a valuable resource for professionals and students.” — Ruth Striegel-Moore, Ph.D., Past President, Academy of Eating Disorders
“Building bridges academic and community-based knowledge and activism, this book describes prevention at the societal, institutional, familial, and individual levels, and focuses on increasing resilience and protective factors as well as reducing the vulnerability to appetite disorders.” — CAB ABTRACTS, 2003
About the Author
Catherine Steiner-Adair, Niva Piran, Michael Levine
