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Your Dieting Daughter
Brunner Mazel, 1996

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 This easy to read book presents an essential perspective-one that could literally mean the difference between life and death for females whether children, adolescents, or adults.

This book speaks directly to parents, answering the kinds of questions that they have when a daughter begins to diet. It also serves as a resource for professionals, who will pick up key insights on how to work with clients and families.

Derived from the author's own struggle with anorexia and extensive experience as an eating disorder therapist, this book offers much more than a discussion of eating disorders. Carolyn Costin speaks clearly to the precursors of problems with body image. She alerts parents-mothers as well as fathers-to behavioral danger signs and she shows them new ways to support their daughter's self-esteem. Additionally Carolyn provides a review and critique of the current popular diets of the day.

Your Dieting Daughter defines, details, and distinguishes among various types of eating disorders. It offers ways to identify when there is a problem and how to gauge how far it has gone. Case study material and actual therapy dialogue give dimension to the labels "anorexia nervosa" and "binge eating". The text provides concrete ideas on how to help women break the cycle of food obsession-whether they are turning to it or away from it. A special chapter directed to directly to daughters personalizes the author's message of awareness.

Your Dieting Daughter is an ideal reference for therapists to recommend to their clients, and is an excellent resource for parents, teachers and other professionals as well.



Your Dieting Daughter: Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 My Daughter Wants/Needs To Diet
Chapter 2 Thin Is In
Chapter 3 The Thin Commandments
Chapter 4 Fit or Fanatic
Chapter 5 Mothers Daughter's and Food
Chapter 6 Daddy's Girl
Chapter 7 Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
Chapter 8 Diet or Disorder?
Chapter 9 What's Going On In There?
Chapter 10 If My Daughter Has A Problem, What Do I Do?
Chapter 11 Packaged Meals and Promised Deals
Chapter 12 So You Want To Go On A Diet? For Your Daughter
Chapter 13 Dear Mom, and Other Letters
Appendix A Nutrition Guide
Appendix B Resources; Books and Organizations