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Peer reviewedHooker, Dawn; Convisser, Ellen – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1983
Discusses clinical observations of women (N=100) with eating problems, focusing on emotional issues as well as how these women use food as a coping mechanism. Reported that therapy helped these women shed anxiety and fear about food and to see eating as something they consciously choose to do. (LLL)
Descriptors: Anorexia Nervosa, Body Image, Body Weight, Coping
