A thoroughly up-to-date reference for researchers who specialize in obesity and clinicians who specialize in working with clients with problem eating behaviors, Handbook of Assessment Methods for Eating Disorders and Weight-Related Problems, Second Edition, offers the field's most comprehensive collection of measures and assessment tools related to eating behaviors. In addition to obesity (an issue that has reached epidemic proportions in the United States), the Handbook deals with problem eating behaviors, eating disorders, and the associated psychological issues that underlie these problems. This Second Edition provides the latest research and theory, along with empirically validated assessment tools for measuring attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with regard to food, including: General personality assessment and psychopathology of persons with eating and weight-related concerns Quality of life assessments Measuring attitudes and beliefs about obese people Assessment of body image Measures of restrained eating Measures of physical activity Measuring food intake Binge eating and purging Eating and weight-related problems with children Identification of psychological problems of patients with eating disorders New and Continuing Features: No other resource offers such a comprehensive collection of assessment methods for eating disorders and weight-related problems in one volume. Contributions from highly regarded scholars and researchers in the field offer up-to-date, academically rigorous, and research-based information. The volume's Introduction emphasizes the importance of research in this area and highlights the changes in the field over the past decade.
The physical and mental health consequences of body image problems, eating disorders, and obesity in children and adolescents can be serious and can extend into adulthood. This book shows that these disorders are preventable and treatable. It demonstrates how body image and eating problems vary across ethnic groups and in boys and girls.
Dr. Raine Weiner demonstrates her approach to working with adolescent clients who present with eating disorders. Eating disorders, which include anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating, are common among teenagers, especially among girls. In this session, Dr. Weiner works with a girl who is experiencing obsessive thoughts, recurrent anxiety, and ......
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.
