The Essential Handbook Of Eating Disorders

by Treasure, Janet; Schmidt, Ulrike; van Furth, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780470014639
• ISBN10: 0470014636
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-29
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

This is a concise paperback version of the authoritative and comprehensive Handbook of Eating Disorders, Second Edition, focusing on the most practical elements from that volume. Ideal for the individual practitioner, this selection of chapters concentrates on the main therapeutic approaches in use, including cognitive behavioural treatments, interpersonal psychotherapy, family interventions, dialectical behaviour therapy and drug treatments. Indispensable for those working in the eating disorders field, such as clinical psychologists, child psychologists, family therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and occupational therapists. The Essential Handbook of Eating Disorders will also be of interest to researchers, lecturers and those in training in the field.

Author Biography

Janet Treasure, Department of Psychiatry, 5th Floor, Thomas Guy House, Guys Hospital, London, SEI 9RT, United Kingdom

Professor Treasure is a psychiatrist who has specialised in the treatment of eating disorders for over 20 years. She trained with Professor Gerald Russell at the Maudsley hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry. The clinic provides treatment for a population of 2 million in south-east London and is a national referral centre. The unit is active in research and development.

Ulrike Schmidt, Section of Eating Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, United Kingdom

Dr Ulrike Schmidt is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Eating Disorders Unit at the Maudsley Hospital and Reader in Eating Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry. Her research interests include all aspects of eating disorders, but in particular brief psychological and self-help treatments. She has co-authored two self-help books and accompanying clinicians' guides.

Eric van Furth, Robert-Fleury Stichting , national Centre for Eating Disorders, PO Box 2260, AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands

Dr Eric van Furth is a psychologist-Psychotherapist in the National Centre for Eating Disorders at the Robert-Fleury Stichting (Robert-Fleury Foundation),  a general psychiatric hospital in Leidschendam, The Netherlands. he is Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry of Leiden University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at St. George's Hospital Medical School, London (UK).

Table of Contents

About the Editors	ix
Contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
Concepts of Eating Disorders	1	(10)
Bob Palmer
Epidemiology	11	(24)
Daphne van Hoeken
Jacob Seidell
Hans Wijbrand Hoek
Cognitive-Behavioural Models	35	(18)
Roz Shafran
Padmal de Silva
Medical Complications	53	(22)
Stephen Zipfel
Bernd Lowe
Wolfgang Herzog
Family, Burden of Care and Social Consequences	75	(16)
Soren Nielsen
Nuria Bara-Carril
Treatment Overview	91	(12)
Janet Treasure
Ulrike Schmidt
Assessment and Motivation	103	(14)
Janet Treasure
Beatrice Bauer
Cognitive-Behavioural Treatments	117	(20)
Glenn Waller
Helen Kennerley
Interpersonal Psychotherapy	137	(18)
Denise Wilfley
Rick Stein
Robinson Welch
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy	155	(8)
Bob Palmer
Helen Birchall
Family Interventions	163	(20)
Ivan Eisler
Daniel le Grange
Eia Asen
Drug Treatments	183	(14)
Tijs Bruna
Jaap Fogteloo
Day Treatments	197	(16)
Paul Robinson
Inpatient Treatment	213	(20)
Anthony Winston
Peter Webster
Index	233