GENERAL BOOKS
Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents by
Bringing together leading authorities, this comprehensive volume integrates the best current knowledge and treatment approaches for eating disorders in children and adolescents. The book reveals how anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other disorders present differently developmentally and explains their potentially far-reaching impact on psychological, physical, and neurobiological development. It provides guidelines for developmentally sound assessment and diagnosis, with attention to assessment challenges unique to this population. Detailed descriptions of evidence-based therapies are illustrated with vivid case examples.
Call Number: WS130 .E14ISBN: 9781609184919Publication Date: 2011-07-26
Fasting Girls: A history of anorexia nervosa by
A history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. A tableau of female self-denial. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, offering real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease.
Call Number: WM 175 B893f 2000ISBN: 0375724486Publication Date: 2000-10-10
Psychobiology and Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa by
Brings together the most recent clinical research concerning all facets of these distinct but interrelated disorders, providing a current overview of the psychobiology and treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Reviews a diagnostic schema of eating disorders from the perspectives of cross-cultural, longitudinal, and family studies. It presents the psychobiology of anorexia and bulimia nervosa in the context of neuroendocrinology and the psychological perceptions associated with eating behavior. The book also examines the family's contribution to the development and maintenance of eating disorders from the perspective of family interaction studies. The final section of this book reviews the latest developments in therapy and treatments.
Call Number: WM175 .P9735ISBN: 088048506XPublication Date: 1992-12-01
More Than Moody: recognizing and treating adolescent depression by Call Number: WM 171 K83mISBN: 0399529128Publication Date: 2003-09-02One of the nation's most distinguished child and adolescent psychiatrists examines the warning signs, risk factors, and key symptoms that offer important clues about depression. He also illustrates a broad range of treatment options including SSRI antidepressants as well as non-pharmaceutical approaches such as cognitive behavior therapy.
BOOK REPORT BOOKS
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by
Semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green about being diagnosed with schizophrenia
Call Number: PS3557.R3784 I6ISBN: 0805008721Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines by
In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. Nic paints a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait--but not one without hope.
Call Number: HV5805.S52 A3ISBN: 9781416913627Publication Date: 2008-02-19
Beautiful Boy by
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.
Call Number: HV5831.C2 S54ISBN: 9780547203881Publication Date: 2009-01-06
Girl, Interrupted by
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers.
Call Number: WM 100 K23gISBN: 9780679423669Publication Date: 1993-05-18
Go Ask Alice by Call Number: PZ7.G534 GoISBN: 0133571114Publication Date: 1971-09-01Based on the diary of a 15-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world
Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia by
Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-creates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes that underlie eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back -- on her own terms.
Call Number: WM 175 H814ISBN: 0060187395Publication Date: 1997-12-29
Inner Hunger: a young woman's struggle through anorexia and bulimia by
A painful, powerful, and ultimately enriching account of what it feels like to be young, confused, and controlled by food. A story of anguish, frustration, and ultimately, triumph.
Call Number: WM 175 A64iISBN: 0393045900Publication Date: 1998-08-01
