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TAKING A DETAILED EATING DISORDER HISTORY: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians

Call no.: : 616.8526075/KIR
Penulis: : James R. Kirkpatrick
Penyumbang: : Safwan Hanif Bin Osman
Ringkasan: Written by a medical consultant to aid clinicians, the book details the necessary understanding, complexities, and difficulties in handling eating disorders. It discusses multiple diagnostic criteria, ranging from social media, thinspirational photos, gender dysphoria, body image insecurities, and financial struggles that may contribute toward eating disorders. History of eating disorder behaviours and attitudes are important to be taken during extensive interviews as motivations to change may be found. These behaviours may take forms of binge eating, purging, substance abuse, and restricting eating with these behaviours to be measured through certain parameters like triggers and patterns. The final part of the book specified the medical symptoms whether the symptoms are physical or emotional as well as their links to health complications.