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Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating, written by an eating disorder therapist and a physician, offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers who treat patients with eating and weight concerns. It describes how both parties are frustrated by weight-loss plans and programs that fail in the long term, and presents a science-based explanation for why diets fail and how they, in fact, may adversely impact patients mental and physical health. The authors illustrate how providers can truly help patients by using empathy, compassion, and motivational interviewing. They explain how helping patients strengthen skills related to self-awareness, emotional management, stress reduction, appetite attunement, perseverance and effective self-care can improve self-efficacy and support sustained motivation in improving health and wellness promoting behaviors. The issue of weight stigma is addressed, along with how professionals view of their own eating and weight affects the patient-provider relationship. This book introduces clinicians to tools from eating and success psychology, Intuitive Eating, Lifestyle Medicine, and Health and Wellness Coaching, within a weight-inclusive paradigm. It also details a collaborative model for working with ancillary disciplines to give patients and providers the comprehensive support needed for lasting success.
About the Author
I am a psychotherapist, educator, international author, and an expert on the psychology of eating--the how and why, not the what, of it. For more than three decades, my mission has been to help people with eating and weight concerns learn to eat "normally" and develop a positive, healthy relationship with food and their bodies. My therapy practice is in Sarasota, FL and I also do tele-therapy in state. As a recovered chronic dieter and binge-eater, I meld my personal recovery wisdom with my professional knowledge and extensive clinical experience to resolve eating problems.My books are: Helping Doctors Outsmart Overeating, Starting Monday, Nice Girls Finish Fat, The Rules of "Normal" Eating, Outsmarting Overeating, The Food and Feelings Workbook, and What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Treating Eating and Weight Issues. Visit my website--www.karenrkoenig.com. Read my blogs--www.karenrkoenig.comTry out my free Facebook app, APPetite--http://apps.facebook.com/app-etite. Join my Facebook Nice Girls Fan Club--http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nice-Girls-Finish-Fat/114097795301428, and follow me on YouTube-- http://www.youtube.com/user/KarenRKoenig and Twitter--http://twitter.com/KarenRKoenig
