A groundbreaking workbook to help you develop healthy coping strategies, build a solid support network, and stay on the path to recovery.If you’ve been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors. However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders of overcontrol (OC).With this compassionate workbook, you’ll learn how to move beyond the unhealthy coping strategies that keep you feeling isolated and lonely, find tips for building a solid support network and enriching social connections, and develop your own personalized plan for staying on the path to recovery. You’ll also find assessments to help you determine the root cause of your OC disorder, exercises for increasing social engagement, and skills for improving social flexibility, trust, and intimacy.Having an eating disorder can make you feel like you’re alone in the world. Even if you’re in recovery, you may have days when feelings of isolation are too much, and you may feel tempted to fall back into unhealthy patterns of eating or restrictive eating. This workbook will help you build your own “treatment tribe,” a group of people that help lift you up and support you as you find your way to a full recovery and a rich, meaningful life.
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"With a sharp and inquisitive mind, scientific rigor, and deep respect for our patients, Hall, Astrachan-Fletcher, and Simic took all this information developed for therapists and created a very easy-to-read and excellent research-based self-help book that targets the emotional loneliness that typically underlies many mental health conditions, emphasizing social signaling as the primary mechanism of change. This book tackles complex problems and makes solutions available to everyone."—Eva Ma. Trujillo Chi Vacuan, MD, FAED, CEDS, Fiaedp, FAAP, CEO and cofounder of Comenzar de Nuevo Eating Disorders Treatment Center; clinical professor at Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Tecnologico de Monterrey; and past president of the Academy for Eating Disorders
"This book is such an important contribution! I've worked with countless people with eating disorders who have told me that radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) is the treatment that resonates best for them. This book is the first of its kind to make RO DBT accessible to anyone. I can't wait to recommend this book to my own patients!"—Leslie Anderson, PhD, FAED, associate clinical professor at the UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center, and coeditor of Clinical Handbook of Complex and Atypical Eating Disorders
"This workbook is an important contribution to the tools available for treating eating disorders. It offers a novel and evidence-based approach for those suffering from any eating disorder diagnosis to augment multidisciplinary treatment with RO DBT. The style is simple and clear, yet comprehensive and engaging. The skills and worksheets make this workbook dynamic and interactive. I commend the authors for this contribution and hope that many will find recovery through it."—Ovidio Bermudez, MD, physician specializing in the treatment of eating disorders