The Radically Open DBT Workbook for Eating Disorders: From Overcontrol and Loneliness to Recovery and Connection [Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

Many people with eating disorders also suffer from emotional overcontrol (OC). Based on more than twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills grounded in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT)-a proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating OC disorders. With this workbook, readers will learn healthy coping skills, tips for building a solid support network and rich social connections, and strategies for staying on the path to recovery.

About the Author :
Karyn D. Hall, PhD, is founder and director of Dialectical Behavior Therapies Center in Houston, TX. She is a radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT) supervisor, and is a certified Linehan DBT Board of Certification clinician. Hall provides both individual and team supervision in RO DBT and DBT. She specializes in the treatment of individuals with maladaptive overcontrolled coping.Ellen Astrachan-Fletcher, PhD, FAED, CEDS-S, is midwest regional clinical director at Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood and Anxiety Center. She is a lecturer at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and associate professor of psychiatry at UIC. She has more than thirty years of clinical and teaching experience in the field. She is a nationally recognized expert in the field of eating disorders. She coauthored The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia, which is used at eating disorders treatment facilities throughout the country.Mima Simic, MD, is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, and joint head of the Maudsley Centre for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders (MCCAED) in London, UK. She was consultant to the adolescent DBT team, and led development of the intensive day treatment program (ITP) at the Maudsley Hospital. Simic is an internationally recognized expert in the field of child and adolescent eating disorders. She is senior RO DBT clinician, senior trainer, and supervisor for the Maudsley family and multi-family therapy for eating disorders.Thomas R. Lynch, PhD, FBPsS, is professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the University of Southampton school of psychology. Previously, he was director of the Duke Cognitive-Behavioral Research and Treatment Program at Duke University from 1998-2007. He relocated to Exeter University in the UK in 2007. Lynch's primary research interests include understanding and developing novel treatments for mood and personality disorders using a translational line of inquiry that com