Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity

Up–to–date coverage on the assessment and treatment of eating disorders and obesity
Featuring contributions from an international group of experts, the Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity is a broad–based resource that explores the major classifications of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. This groundbreaking reference also offers a thorough review of the area of obesity, along with a specialized focus on body image disturbances, including body dysmorphic disorder.
This comprehensive handbook presents the latest information in multiple areas of research and practice, highlighting risk factors, assessment, treatment, and prevention of eating disorders and obesity. Practical guidelines for implementing treatment strategies are supplemented with insightful clinical case studies and helpful explanations illustrating real–world applications of treatment components.
Special coverage in this volume addresses such timely topics as:Cosmetic surgery and cosmetic medical treatmentsHow the media influences eating disordersWeight and shape concerns of boys and menCross–cultural aspects of eating disordersChild sexual abuse and eating disordersA feminist approach to eating disorders
The Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity offers mental health and medical professionals, as well as students, the most current information available on every aspect of this troubling and pervasive societal problem.
"This remarkably comprehensive and current resource will be an indispensable addition to the libraries of clinicians and scholars alike. The chapters represent a rich synthesis of the wide–ranging psychosocial and biological investigations of obesity and eating disorders, and the equally diverse approaches to their clinical management."
–Michael Strober, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Editor in Chief, Internationa l Journal of Eating Disorders
"This impressive handbook offers, in one volume, a fine distillation of contemporary knowledge and best practice in the complex and interrelated areas of body image disturbance, eating disorders, and obesity. The explicit integration of current research with current clinical practice makes this volume stand out and will ensure its place as an indispensable resource for both those wishing to get up to speed and for established researchers and clinicians alike."
–Marika Tiggemann, PhD, Flinders University, Australia
Associate Editor, Body Image: An International Journal of Research

Spis treści:
Preface.
PART I. EATING DISORDERS: ANOREXIA NERVOSA, BULIMIA NERVOSA, AND BINGE EATING DISORDER.
SECTION 1. ETIOLOGY, RISK, AND PREVENTION.
Chapter 1. Genetic and Biological Risk Factors (Cynthia M. Bulik).
Chapter 2. Risk Factors for Eating Disorders: An Evauation of the Evidence  (Alison E. Field).
Chapter 3. Eating Disorder Prevention Programs (Eric Stice & Emily Hoffman).
SECTION 2. ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS.
Chapter 4. Diagnosis and Classification of Eating Disorders (Debra L. Franko, et al.).
Chapter 5. Assessment of Medical Status and Physical Factors (Claire Pomeroy).
Chapter 6. Psychological Assessment of Eating Disorders and Related Features (Drew A. Anderson and Caroline A. Paulosky).
SECTION 3. TREATMENT.
Chapter 7. Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder (Kathleen Pike, et al.).
Chapter 8. Interpersonal Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder (Stacey Tantleff–Dunn, et al.).
Chapter 9. Pharmacological Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder (Martina de Zwaan, et al.).
Chapter 10. Family Approaches for Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervos a (James Lock).
Chapter 11. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders (Elizabeth Blocher McCabe, et al.).
Chapter 12. Integrative Cognitive Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa (Carol B. Peterson, et al.).
Chapter 13. Feminist Therapy and Eating Disorders (Niva Piran, et al.).
Chapter 14. Internet–Based Treatment Strategies (Andrew J. Winzelberg, et al.).
Chapter 15. Impatient and Partial Hospital Approaches to the Treatment of Eating Disorders (Angela S. Guarda and Leslie J. Heinberg).
PART II. OBESITY.
SECTION 1. ETIOLOGY, RISK, AND PREVENTION.
Chapter 16. Genetic and Biological Risk Factors (Mark B. Cope and David Allison).
Chapter 17. The Toxic Environment and Obesity: Contribution and Cure (Kathryn E. Henderson and Kelly Brownell).
Chapter 18. Psychosocial and Behavioral Consequences of Obesity (Diane Neumark–Sztainer and Jess Haines).
SECTION 2. ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS.
Chapter 19. Assessment of Medical Status and Physical Factors (M. Ammar Hatahet & Nikhil V. Dhurandhar).
Chapter 20. Behavioral Assessment of Obesity (Suzanne Phelan and Thomas A. Wadden).
SECTION 3. TREATMENT.
Chapter 21. Treatment of Obesity I: Adult Obesity (David B. Sarwer, et al.).
Chapter 22. Treatment of Obesity II: Childhood and Adolescent Obesity (Jordana Cooperberg and Myles Faith).
PART III. BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCES AND BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER.
Chapter 23. Risk Factors for the Development of Body Image Disturbances (Eleanor H. Wertheim, et al.).
Chapter 24. Assessment of Body Image Disturbances (Tiffany M. Stewart and Donald A. Williamson).
Chapter 25. Treatment of Body Image Disturbances (Thomas F. Cash and Joshua I. Hrabosky).
Chapter 26. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (Roberto Olivardia).
PART IV. SPECIAL TOPICS.
Chapter 27. Sociocultural Aspects of Eating Disorders (Eileen P. Anderson–Fye and Anne E. Becker).
Chapter 28. A Femi nist Approach to Eating Disorders (Linda Smolak and Sarah K. Murnen).
Chapter 29. Weight and Shape Concerns of Boys and Men (Marita P. McCabe and Lina A. Ricciardelli).
Chapter 30. Eating Problems in Childhood and Adolescence (Dasha Nicholls).
Chapter 31. Obesity and Body Image in Ethnically Diverse Children and Adolescents (Sonia Y. Ruiz, et al.).
Chapter 32. Child Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders (Kevin M. Thompson and Stephen A. Wonderlich).
Chapter 33. Media′s Role in the Perpetuation and Prevention of Negative Body Image and Disorderd Eating (Michael Levine and Kristen Harrison).
Chapter 34. Cosmetic Surgery and Cosmetic Medical Treatments (David B. Sarwer, et al.).
Chapter 35. Future Directions in Eating Disorder and Obesity Research (Linda Smolak and Ruth Striegel–Moore).
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Nota biograficzna:
J. KEVIN THOMPSON, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. He is the editor or coeditor of several books, including Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity in Youth and Exacting Beauty: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment of Body Image Disturbance. He is also Associate Editor of the journal Body Image: An International Journal of Research.

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Up–to–date coverage on the assessment and treatment of eating disorders and obesity
Featuring contributions from an international group of experts, the Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity is a broad–based resource that explores the major classifications of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. This groundbreaking reference also offers a thorough review of the area of obesity, along with a specialized focus on body image disturbances, including body dysmorphic disorder.
This comprehensive handbook presents the latest information in multiple areas of research and practice, highl