Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ297782
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1983
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Women's Eating Problems: An Analysis of a Coping Mechanism.
Hooker, Dawn; Convisser, Ellen
Personnel and Guidance Journal, v62 n4 p236-39 Dec 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, Eating Habits, Emotional Disturbances, Females, Intervention
Publication Type: Reports - General; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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