Provides a framework and a range of tools for assessing patients with eating disorders. This book describes the nuts and bolts of using diagnostic interviews, standardized databases, structured instruments, self-report and family-based measures, medical and nutritional assessment, and strategies for evaluating body image disturbance.
Inside Anorexia describes the different experiences and challenges faced by teenage girls with anorexia and their families. It demonstrates that the starting point for understanding anorexia must be the unique stories of individuals and their families.Structured around real-life accounts, the book provides a valuable insight into the lived ......
Reviews the literature on binge-eating disorder, covering diagnosis and epidemiology, clinical features and course, links to obesity, medical risks, and treatment data. This title provides an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment manual. It features more than 40 explained homework assignments and handouts, all in a large-size format.
This book focuses squarely on what psychiatrists need to know about the clinical assessment and management of patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and obesity. Its insights will enable clinicians to better make nuanced assessments of patients with these conditions.
There is empirical evidence that spiritual approaches to treating clients with eating disorders are as effective, and sometimes more effective, than secular ones. This book shows how a theistic perspective of healing and change can enrich therapies in practice for eating disorders such as individual, group, and family therapy and 12-step programs.
It is clear that body image plays a role in the etiology, development, and treatment of eating disorders and obesity. This work integrates research on body image with empirically supported assessment and intervention guidelines for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
Legal, ethical and interpersonal issues are central to this study of the pressure and responsibility faced by practising therapists in the treatment of eating disorders.
Legal, ethical and interpersonal issues are central to this study of the pressure and responsibility faced by practising therapists in the treatment of eating disorders.
Updated to reflect recent DSM categorizations, this edition includes coverage of binge-eating disorder and examines pharmacological as well as psychotherapeutic approaches to treating eating disorders.
