The classic eating disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are relatively common and significant disturbances. This work describes the classic signs and symptoms, together with the course and prognosis of each condition. It examines the medical and social complications that can arise when dealing with these patients.

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Written by a team experienced in the care of patients with eating disorders, this text demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this complex psychosocial disorder. It also describes the treatment and recovery process.

Eating disorders such an Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia are maladaptive coping mechanisms, and recovery requires the learning of new, healthy coping skills. In this book, the author shares her personal story of recovery at the Renfrew Center and offers positive coping strategies, including practical advice about how and when to use them.

A comprehensive collection of measures and assessment tools intended for use by researchers and clinicians that work with people with problem eating behaviors, obese clients, and the associated psychological issues that underlie these problems. It is suitable for researchers who specialize in obesity research.

Offers step-by-step guide to the treatment of anorexia nervosa in adolescents. Unique in its focus on mobilizing parents and siblings as a resource in treatment.

This text describes the clinical heterogeneity and diagnosis of eating disorders. It presents advances in neurobiological research and also discusses treatments. The aim is to make accessible to clinicians the recent advances in the neurosciences and put the data in a treatment setting.

Explores the contributory factors and underlying causes of eating disorders.

Presents and integrates virtually all that is known about eating disorders and obesity in a single practical volume. This book contains 112 concise chapters that encapsulate information on all pertinent topics. The contents are organized to highlight areas of overlap between lines of research that often remain disparate.

Presents a comprehensive guide to the practice of enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E), the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders. This book describes how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for adolescents and patients who require hospitalization.

Eating disorders are insidious and relapses are frequent: parents need to be armed with the information in this book.

This manual is written for professionals working with people suffering with bulimia nervosa and for sufferers themselves. It provides a framework for understanding what maintains the disorder and why it has developed. In addition, there is a step-by-step programme to aid recovery.

Covers chapters that concentrate on the main therapeutic approaches in use, including cognitive behavioural treatments, interpersonal psychotherapy, family interventions, dialectical behaviour therapy and drug treatments. This work is suitable for those working in the eating disorders field.

Offers a treatment programme for people with eating disorders who have a negative body image. This manual provides advice for therapists, enabling them to deliver the programme, as well as practical guidance for the sufferer, encouraging them to learn the appropriate skills to change their attitude towards their body.

Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence to chronic mental illnesses. This work offers a coherent approach to these difficult and demanding problems, underlining the point that while many of the manifestations are physical, eating disorders have their origins as well as their solutions, in the mind.

This volume is a source of information on the dynamics of eating disorders. It provides information on adolescent danger signals, socialization and the family, physiological effects, the challenges of leaving home, drug therapy and nutritional counselling.

Explores the ways in which people express emotions through food and how to balance nutrition with enjoyment and lifestyle.

Approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers methods to increase patients' sense of self-worth, self-knowledge, and motivation to lose weight. This illustrated book enables therapists and health practitioners to help obese people come to terms with their size, or support their decision to change their behaviour.

This book is designed to provide professionals with the information and tools they need to treat patients who have eating disorders and engage in self-harm beahviours. Grouped into four major sections these chapters examine the co-occurance of self harm behaviour from a variety of perspectives.

Introduces an approach to overcoming the growing socio-economic burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from emotionally-driven female obesity. This book offers a 36-week programme based on emotional intelligence and the removal of barriers to improvement, along with learning tools for clinicians to use with participants.