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Chapter 3 - The Carer’s Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2020

Jane Morris  and
Caz Nahman
Jane Morris
Affiliation:
Royal Cornhill Hospital
Caz Nahman
Affiliation:
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
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Summary

Risk assessment is a key area within looking after a patient with an eating disorder and this chapter is one of the key chapters for any trainee. Eating disorders carry high levels of physical health risk which need monitoring and managing but additionally the behavioural and psychosocial risks must not be neglected. This is one of the three core chapters identified within the book.

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New to Eating Disorders , pp. 15 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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References and Further Reading

Baldock, E. (2009) An ethico-legal account of working with carers in eating disorders. In Treasure, J., Schmidt, U., & Macdonald, P. (Eds.), The Clinician’s Guide to Collaborative Caring in Eating Disorders: The New Maudsley Method (pp. 30–42). New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Bulik, C. M., Baucom, D., Kirby, J., & Pisetsky, E. (2011) Uniting couples in the treatment of anorexia nervosa (UCAN). International Journal of Eating Disorders, 44(1): 19–28.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Butzlaff, A. M., & Hooley, J. M. (1998) Expressed emotion and psychiatric relapse: A meta-analysis. Archives of General Psychiatry, 55(6): 547–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Goddard, E., Raenker, S., & Treasure, J. (2012) Involving carers: A skills based learning approach. In Alexander, J. & Treasure, J. (Eds.), A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders (pp. 149–62). London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Lock, J., & Le Grange, D. (2015) Treatment Manual for Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based Approach. New York: Guilford Press.Google Scholar
Morris, J., MacDonald, I., Stewart, R., Smith, G., & Marrison, H. (2008) The sufferer’s and carer’s viewpoint. In Morris, J. (Ed.), ABC of Eating Disorders (pp. 62–6). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar
Treasure, J., Schmidt, U., & Macdonald, P. (Eds.) (2009) The Clinician’s Guide to Collaborative Caring in Eating Disorders: The New Maudsley Method. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Treasure, J., Sepulveda, A. R., Macdonald, P. et al. (2008) Interpersonal maintaining factors in eating disorder: Skill sharing interventions for carers. International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health, 1(4): 331–8.Google Scholar
Whitney, J., Murray, J., & Gavan, K. et al. (2005) Experience of caring for someone with anorexia nervosa: Qualitative study The British Journal of Psychiatry, 187(5): 444–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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