Change4Life one year on – Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives

Change4Life one year on  Department of Health, February 2010 Click on the title to access the full-text of this report Abstract: This document reports on the first twelve months of the Change4Life campaign. Change4Life, which launched to the public in January 2009, is the social marketing part of the Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives cross-governmental strategy [...]

A ward manager’s toolkit for service user engagement – Communication partnership between staff and patients

A ward manager’s toolkit for service user engagement, Nursing Management – UK, Nov2009, Vol. 16 Issue 7, p30-34 Wilson, Christine; Kenkre, Joyce  – UK Abstract: The government suggests that improvements in patient care will come about as a direct result of a communicative partnership between staff and patients. Clinical staff are therefore encouraged to listen [...]

Psychological Treatments of Binge Eating Disorder

Psychological Treatments of Binge Eating Disorder, Archives of General Psychiatry. 2010;67(1):94-101. G. Terence Wilson; Denise E. Wilfley; W. Stewart Agras; Susan W. Bryson Abstract: Context  Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is an effective specialty treatment for binge eating disorder (BED). Behavioral weight loss treatment (BWL) and guided self-help based on cognitive behavior therapy (CBTgsh) have both resulted in short-term [...]