The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties: A comprehensive guide from personal and professional perspectives - Softcover

Parker, Isla; Hopfenbeck, Mark

 
9781913414689: The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties: A comprehensive guide from personal and professional perspectives

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Over the past 30 years, eating difficulties have become increasingly common across the UK and globally. This handbook addresses the social, psychological, and cultural factors that shape body image and eating behaviours, including the influence of social media, diet culture, and the fashion industry. This comprehensive, contemporary, and practical guide to understanding and supporting people living with eating difficulties and eating disorders. Drawing on insights from people with lived experience, their families, and leading clinicians, therapists, and researchers, it offers real-world strategies to help individuals recover, live well, and thrive in their communities. Readers will find practical guidance for healthcare professionals, educators, and voluntary organisations, as well as parents, schools, and workplaces, on how to provide effective and compassionate support.

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is a pen name. Isla is a freelance editor and writer who promotes the understanding of health issues and well-being. She undertook a degree in English, and found it interesting to study how literature explores illness. This led to Isla writing a novel about anorexia for teenagers called 'Size Zero?', that is loosely based on her own experience. Isla has co-edited 'The Practical Handbook of Hearing Voices' and 'The Practical Handbook of Dementia' for the publisher PCCS Books. Recently, she has co-edited 'The Practical Handbook of Eating Difficulties' for Pavilion Publishing. In her free time Isla enjoys playing the piano. She also takes part in an online writing group that has introduced her to writers from different countries.

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