An exploration of obese adults’ experience of attempting to lose weight and to maintain a reduced weight

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-229

  Bidgood, Jacqueline ^a   Buckroyd, Julia ^b  

^a Counsellor ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

counselling; Obese adults; stigmatization; weight loss treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155207692     PISSN: 14733145     EISSN: 17461405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441690500310395     Document Type: Article

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