Fantastic Food with Splenda or Anorexia Workbook

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Anorexia Workbook

Author: Michelle Heffner

Use the New and Effective Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to:

• Accept Your Thoughts and Change Your Behavior
• Cope with Critical Self-Talk Using Powerful Mindfulness Techniques
• Choose to Live a Healthy Life

Despite ever-widening media attention and public awareness of the problem, American women continue to suffer from anorexia nervosa in greater numbers than ever before. This severe psychophysiological condition-characterized by an abnormal fear of becoming obese, a persistent unwillingness to eat, and severe compulsion to lose weight-is particularly difficult to treat, often because the victims are unwilling to seek out help. This book uses innovative new techniques based on a revolutionary model of psychotherapy called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, to teach readers that efforts to control and stop anorexia may do more harm than good. Instead of focusing efforts on judging impulses associated with the disorder as "bad" or "negative," this approach encourages sufferers to mindfully observe these feelings without reacting to them in a self-destructive way. Guided to this more compassionate, more receptive frame of mind, readers are coached to employ various acceptance-based coping strategies.

Structured in a logical, step-by-step progression of exercises, the workbook first focuses on providing readers with a new understanding of anorexia and the ways they might have already tried to control the problem. Then the book progresses through techniques that teach how to use mindfulness to deal with out-of-control thoughts and feelings, how to identify choice that will lead to better heath and quality of life, and how to redirect the energy formerly spent on weight loss into those actions that will heal the body and mind. Although this book is written specifically to anorexia sufferers, it includes a clear and informative chapter on when readers need to seek professional treatment as well as advice on what to look for in a therapist.

Leading researchers in acceptance and commitment therapy suggest to readers struggling with anorexia that strategies to control their disorder are themselves problems. Instead, they use the techniques of ACT to teach how better to cope with out-of-control emotions and thoughts. The goal of this book is to teach anorexia sufferers how to redirect the drive for thinness to achieve more healthful goals.

• This is the only book available that addresses the particular needs of anorexics with ACT-based techniques
• The authors of this book are pioneering researchers in the field of ACT, with numerous research articles to their credit

About the Authors:
Michelle Heffner, MA, was trained in the West Virginia University Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry eating disorders program. She has assessed and treated eating disorder clients in the West Virginia University Department of Psychology clinic and the West Virginia University Carruth Center for Counseling and Psychological Services.

Georg H. Eifert, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Chapman University in Orange, California. Dr. Eifert has published widely on integrative behavioral models and treatments of anxiety and other emotional disorders and how recent advances in the field, such as acceptance and commitment therapy, can be integrated with existing behavioral interventions for clinical problems.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword: Starting from Here	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
Part I	Understanding Anorexia
Chapter 1	What Is Anorexia?	9
Chapter 2	An Anorexia Self-Test	25
Part II	Treating Anorexia with ACT: Change What You Do, Not What You Think and Feel
Chapter 3	Accept--Choose--Take Action: The Basics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy	35
Chapter 4	When Control Gets Out of Control	47
Chapter 5	Learning to Be a Mindful Observer	61
Chapter 6	Approach Difficult Situations with Acceptance	79
Chapter 7	Choosing Valued Directions	93
Chapter 8	Staying Committed to Valued Living	117
Chapter 9	Emily's Journey to Recovery	129
Part III	Professional Treatment Issues
Chapter 10	Professional Treatment Options	141
Chapter 11	Established Psychological Treatments For Anorexia	151
Chapter 12	Preparing for Treatment with a Therapist	159
Part IV	Additional Resources
Chapter 13	A Chapter for Loved Ones	171
Chapter 14	Assess Your Progress	185
	References	195