Medical Management of Eating Disorders: A Practical Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

by C. Laird Birmingham , Pierre J. V. Beumont , With contributions by Richard Crawford , Deborah Hodgson , Michael Kohn , Peta Marks , James Mitchell , Sue Paxton , Jorge Pinzon , Ingrid Tyler , Christopher Thornton , Stephen Touyz , Alison Wakefield

• ISBN13: 9780521546621
• ISBN10: 0521546621
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is a practical guide to the medical complications and treatment of anorexia nervosa and related eating disorders. A user-friendly structure allows the reader to access information on the basis of physical complaint (e.g. chest pain) or body system (e.g. neurological or respiratory). Practical guidance is provided on history taking, physical, and laboratory examination, and looking after special categories of patients such as prepubertal, males, adolescents, and during pregnancy. The principles and practice of treatment are fully covered including medical and nutritional therapies. Psychiatric and psychological issues are also addressed and provide details of specific psychological therapies. The text is supplemented with diagnostic colour photographs of important physical manifestations of eating disorders. Although the text is suitable for all health care professionals looking after these patients, special information is provided for general practitioners, nursing staff and family carers and including the patients themselves.

Author Biography

C. Laird Birmingham: University of British Columbia Pierre J. V. Beumont: University of Sydney

Table of Contents

Part I. The Medical Perspective: 1. Definitions and epidemiology

2. The behavioural disorders

3. History, examination and investigations

4. Medical manifestations by system

5. Common physical complaints

Part II. Treatment: 6. Principles of treatment

7. Medical and nutritional therapy

Part III. Special Issues: 8. Specific patient populations

9. Prepubertal child and the younger adolescent

Part IV. The Psychiatric and Psychological Perspective: 10. Psychiatric, psychological and social aspects

11. Taking a psychiatric history

12. Psychopathology and phenomenology

13. Specific psychological therapies

Part V. Areas of Special Interest: 14. The role of the general practitioner

15. Nursing patients with anorexia nervosa

16. The role of the dietitian in the treatment of eating disorders

17. Information for family and friends

Bibliography

Index.