Mindfulness and Eating Disorders across the Lifespan

<p>This important and well researched volume examines the clinical phenomenon of eating disorders exploring their longitudinal risk trajectory and introducing the Mindful Emotion Regulation – Approach (MER-A) as a starting point for intervention.</p><p>The book reviews various eating problems that can originate from the earliest perinatal phase to early adolescence and through the MER-A framework focuses on how the principles of mindfulness and the related theoretical and clinical bases underlying the construct of emotional regulation can guide the clinician to a deeper understanding of a patient’s disordered eating. Featuring reflections on clinical cases it includes coverage of patients’ difficulties in regulating emotions their relationships with various eating behaviours and their associated interpersonal features.</p><p>Mindfulness and Eating Disorders across the Lifespan represents an attempt to provide a complete appreciation of this complex and multifaceted topic making it of great importance to psychotherapists and related mental health professionals working with eating disorders.</p>