Doing What Works

Foreword
Acknowledgments

Section 1: Preparing Yourself to Treat Eating Disorders

Chapter 1: A Treatment Field in Transition: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

Chapter 2: Eating Disorders 101: Knowledge Is Power

Chapter 3: Soul Searching: Assessing the Personal Side of Professional Challenges

Section 2: Diagnostic Nuts and Bolts

Chapter 4: Eating Disorders and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Chapter 5: Diagnosis and Eating Disorders: Seeing the Whole Picture

Chapter 6: Getting Started: Structuring the Diagnostic Process

Chapter 7: Diagnosing and Managing Eating Disorders, Feeding Disorders, and Picky Eating Syndrome in Young Children

Section 3: Tapping Treatment Resources

Chapter 8: The Therapist’s Unique Use of Self in Treatment

Chapter 9: Partnering for Success: Multidisciplinary Treatment Teamwork

Chapter 10: Treatment Modalities and Milieus: Integrating Diverse Resources

Section 4: The Eating Disorders Treatment Toolbox

Chapter 11: As the Brain Learns, People Change: Innovative Treatment Approaches That Work

Chapter 12: Structuring Eating Disorder Treatment: Laying the Foundation of Care

Chapter 13: Eating Disorder Treatment Methods and Approaches: Differentiating and Integrating Methodological Techniques

Chapter 14: Practical Building Blocks of Strategic Interviewing: Borrowing Freely From Diverse Treatment Approaches

Section 5: The Reality of Recovery

Chapter 15: Recovery, Aftercare, and Relapse: Sustaining the Integrity of the Healing Process Through the Long Haul

References
Index
About the Author

Abigail H. Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP, is an expert in the treatment of eating disorders who has treated children, adults, couples, families, and groups for the past 35 years. The author of When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Other Caregivers (Jossey-Bass, 1999) and the e-book Doing What Works: A Professional’s Guide for Treating Eating Disorders, Abigail is the founder and director of Eating Disorder Specialists of Illinois: A Clinic without Walls.

Abigail is also a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. She is a leader in the use of this neurophysiologic approach to augment more traditional approaches to treating patients with eating disorders and body image disturbances. The Feldenkrais Method, based on the work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, uses gentle, pleasurable movements and directed attention, to create a novel and remediated experience of the body and the self, offering patients enhanced self-awareness, stress-relief, and new options for personal growth and change.

Abigail has appeared on national television as an eating disorder expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The John Walsh Show, Starting Over (NBC), as well as on MSNBC and National Public Radio. She was featured in the fall of 2009 as an expert in a documentary about eating disorders produced by Fox TV.

I’m a nutritionist who specializes in treating people with eating disorders. I’ve just finished reading Abigail Natenshon’s book, Doing What Works, and I feel compelled to tell you what a truly wonderful resource it is. It’s the most thorough and intelligent treatment of the subject that I’ve ever read and yet it’s written in a warm and accessible manner.

Eating disorders are often misunderstood and treatment remains a mystery for many professionals treating them. Every professional working with the eating disorder population needs to read this book. I can easily imagine this book becoming part of the curriculum in colleges, graduate schools and medical schools and then serving as the main resource for the entire professional treatment team… it’s that good. On behalf of my fellow eating disorder nutritionists, thank you for making it available.

Lynn Freedman M.Ed, RD, LD
Highland Park, IL