Full Description
The Relational Dimensions of Weight Management is a book for nonspecialist psychotherapists of any theoretical orientation to help patients concerned with weight management. Psychotherapy patients use their therapists as sounding boards to help them answer two questions: Do I need to lose weight? And, if I do need to lose weight, how should I go about it? Chapters provide therapists with the tools they need to help patients find personalized solutions to their weight loss concerns, to boost their self-image, and to deal with the judgment that is sometimes imposed by others, regardless of which weight management approach patients eventually embrace.
Contents
Introduction Overview Part One: Relational Dimensions of Eating Behavior 1. Internalized Weight Stigma and the Desire to Diet 2. Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention and the Consumer Culture 3. When Food is Love and Food Choice is Autonomy: The Relational Dynamics of Emotional Eating 4. Food Addiction and Divergent Weight Management Stigma 5. The Evolution of Human Food Sharing and Feasting 6. Who to Believe? The Confusing Nature of Dietary Reality and Epistemic Trust Part Two: Patients' Weight Management Journeys and the Therapeutic Relationship 7. Kill the Messenger: Helping Patients Deal with "Bad Numbers" (i.e., weight, BMI, calories, blood glucose, cholesterol) 8. Recommending or Demanding? Helping Patients Choose an Approach to Weight Management 9. Coaching of Policing? Helping Patients Self-Monitor 10. Accepting or Judging? Weight Cycling and Relapse Recovery 11. Empowering or Pressuring? Helping Patients Deal with Prejudice Conclusion
