UPC: 9783319826042 | Psychiatric Care in Severe Obesity: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Integrated Care (Paperback)

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This book is designed to present a comprehensive state-of the-art approach to assessing and managing bariatric surgery and psychosocial care. Unlike any other text this book focuses on developing a biopsychosocial understanding of patients obesity journey and psychosocial factors contributing to their obesity and its management from an integrated perspective. Psychiatric Care in Severe Obesity takes a 360 approach by covering the disease s prevalence and relationship to psychiatric illness and social factors including genetics neurohormonal pathways and development factors for obesity. This book presents evidence and strategies for assessing psychiatric issues in severe obesity and uses common psychiatric presentations to feature the impact on bariatric surgery and key assessment features for weight loss. Concluding chapters focus on evidence-based psychosocial treatments for supporting patients with weight loss and bariatric surgery and includes educational tools and checklists for assessment treatment and care. Experts on non-pharmacological interventions such as mindfulness cognitive-behavioral therapy and nutrition education describe treatment approaches in each modality concluding with pharmacological approaches for psychiatric conditions and eating pathology. Additional tools in the appendices support clinicians making this the ultimate guide for managing psychiatric illness in patients suffering from severe obesity. As obesity continues to grow in prevalence as a medically recognized epidemic Psychiatric Care in Severe Obesity serves a vital resource to medical students psychiatrists psychologists bariatric surgeons primary care physicians dietitians mental health nurses social workers and all medical professionals working with severely obese patients.