Clinicians may experience ethical and legal dilemmas in the management of patients with severe anorexia nervosa. It has been suggested that weight gain through compulsory treatment is counterproductive and adversely affects the therapeutic relationship. Because of the ethical problems of withholding
Managing the chronic, treatment-resistant patient with anorexia nervosa
โ Scribed by Strober, Michael
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 95 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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