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Treatment of Eating Disorders

Bridging the Research-practice Gap

  • 1st Edition - July 28, 2010
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Margo Maine, Beth Hartman McGilley, Douglas Bunnell
  • Language: English

Eating disorders (EDs) affect at least 11 million people in the United States each year and spread across age, race, ethnicity and socio-economic class. While professional literat… Read more

Description

Eating disorders (EDs) affect at least 11 million people in the United States each year and spread across age, race, ethnicity and socio-economic class. While professional literature on the subject has grown a great deal in the past 30 years, it tends to be exclusively research-based and lacking expert clinical commentary on treatment. This volume focuses on just such commentary, with chapters authored by both expert clinicians and researchers. Core issues such as assessment and diagnosis, the correlation between EDs and weight and nutrition, and medical/psychiatric management are discussed, as are the underrepresented issues of treatment differences based on gender and culture, the applications of neuroscience, EDNOS, comorbid psychiatric disorders and the impact of psychiatric medications. This volume uniquely bridges the gap between theoretical findings and actual practice, borrowing a bench-to-bedside approach from medical research.

Key features

  • Includes real-world clinical findings that will improve the level of care readers can provide, consolidated in one place
  • Underrepresented issues such as gender, culture, EDNOS and comorbidity are covered in full
  • Represents outstanding scholarship, with each chapter written by an expert in the topic area

Readership

Clinical psychologists/counselors, psychiatrists and social workers working with clients suffering from eating disorders; advanced undergraduate and graduate students in eating disorder courses; researchers exploring eating disorders and body image

Table of contents

Introduction: Eating Disorders as Biopsychosocial Illnesses

I. BRIDGING THE GAP: THE OVERVIEW

1. A Perfect Biopsychosocial Storm: Gender, Culture, and Eating Disorders
MARGO MAINE, PhD, FAED, and DOUGLAS W. BUNNELL, PhD, FAED

2. What’s Weight Got to Do with It? Weight Neutrality in the Health at Every Size Paradigm and Its Implications for Clinical Practice
DEBORAH BURGARD, PhD

3. Neuroscience: Contributions to the Understanding and Treatment of Eating Disorders
FRANCINE LAPIDES, MFT

4. Are Media an Important Medium for Clinicians? Mass Media, Eating Disorders,and the Bolder Model of Treatment, Prevention, and Advocacy
MICHAEL P. LEVINE, PhD, FAED and MARGO MAINE, PhD, FAED

II. BRIDGING THE GAP: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

5. The Assessment Process: Refining the Clinical Evaluation of Patients with Eating Disorders
DREW A. ANDERSON, PhD, JASON M. LAVENDER, MA, and KYLE P. DE YOUNG, MA

6. Medical Assessment of Eating Disorders
EDWARD P. TYSON, MD

7. Psychiatric Medication: Management,Myths, and Mistakes
MARTHA M. PEASLEE LEVINE, MD, and RICHARD L. LEVINE, MD

8. Nutritional Impact on the Recovery Process
JILLIAN K. CROLL, PhD, MPH, RD, LD

9. Science or Art? Integrating Symptom Management into Psychodynamic
Treatment of Eating Disorders
NANCY L. CLOAK, MD, and PAULINE S. POWERS, MA, FAED

10. New Pathways: Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to the Treatment of Eating Disorders
KATHY KATER, LICSW

11. Outpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa following Weight Restoration: Practical and Conceptual Issues
RICHARD A. GORDON, PhD

12. Recipe for Recovery: Necessary Ingredients for the Client’s and Clinician’s Success
BETH HARTMAN McGILLEY, PhD, and JACQUELINE K. SZABLEWSKI, MTS, MAC, LAC

III. BRIDGING THE GAP: SPECIAL POPULATIONS

13. Borderline Personality and Eating Disorders: A Chaotic Crossroads
RANDY A. SANSONE, MD, and LORI A. SANSONE, MD

14. Managing the Eating Disorder Patient with a Comorbid Substance Use Disorder
AMY BAKER DENNIS, PhD, FAED, and BETHANY L. HELFMAN, PsyD

15. Comorbid Trauma and Eating Disorders: Treatment Considerations and Recommendations for a Vulnerable Population
DIANN M. ACKARD, PhD, LP, FAED, and TIMOTHY D. BREWERTON, MD, DFAPA, FAED

16. Healing Self-Inflicted Violence in Adolescents with Eating Disorders: A Unified Treatment Approach
KIMBERLY DENNIS, MD and JANCEY WICKSTROM, AM, LCSW

17. The Weight-Bearing Years: Eating Disorders and Body Image Despair in Adult Women
MARGO MAINE

18. Men with Eating Disorders: The Art and Science of Treatment Engagement
DOUGLAS W. BUNNELL, PhD, FAED

IV. BRIDGING THE GAP: FAMILY ISSUES

19. Mutuality and Motivation in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: Connecting with Patients and Families for Change
MARY TANTILLO, PhD, FAED, and JENNIFER SANFTNER, PhD

20. When Helping Hurts: The Role of the Family and Significant Others in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
JUDITH BRISMAN, PhD

21. The Most Painful Gaps: Family Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders
ROBBIE MUNN, MA, MSW, DORIS and TOM SMELTZER, and KITTY WESTIN

V. BRIDGING THE GAP: MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT

22. The Role of Spirituality in Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery
MICHAEL E. BERRETT, PhD, RANDY K. HARDMAN, PhD and P. SCOTT RICHARDS, PhD

23. The Case for Integrating Mindfulness in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
KIMBERLI McCALLUM, MD, FAED

24. The Use of Holistic Methods to Integrate the Shattered Self
ADRIENNE RESSLER, MA, LMSW, CEDS, SUSAN KLEINMAN, MA, BC-DMT, NCC and ELISA MOTT, MEd/EdS

25. Incorporating Exercise into Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery: Cultivating a Mindful Approach
RACHEL M. CALOGERO, PhD, and KELLY N. PEDROTTY-STUMP, MS


26. Body Talk: The Use of Metaphor and Storytelling in Body Image Treatment
ANITA JOHNSTON, PhD

VI. BRIDGING THE GAP: FUTURE DIRECTIONS

27. The ResearchePractice Gap: Challenges and Opportunities for the Eating Disorder Treatment Professional
JUDITH D. BANKER, MA, LLP, FAED, and KELLY L. KLUMP, PhD, FAED

28. Call to Action

Review quotes

"Treatment of Eating Disorders, edited by luminaries Margo Maine, Beth Hartman McGilley, and Douglas Bunnell, takes on the ambitious challenge of bridging the research-practice gap in the field of eating disorders. From its conceptualization, the book had the potential to be fragmented and either too broad or too esoteric; instead it offers a complex, multidimensional, and far-reaching scope of the problems we encounter as professionals committed to the daily grind of advancing the understanding and treatment of an array of eating-related problems. This book also had the potential to be dry and pragmatic, but instead its chapters are filled with compassionate wisdom, honesy, and a real commitment to social change…. Treatment of Eating Disorders fulfills its goals of bridging practice and science and left us both sated for now, and eager to learn more from any one 85 of the astute contributors to this volume."—Eating Disorders, January 2011

"Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap"serves as an excellent resource for learning more from our colleagues 'across the aisle' and as part of the shared mission of improving treatments for eating disorders."—Academy of Eating Disorders Newsletter, December 2010

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 19, 2016
  • Language: English

About the editors

MM

Margo Maine

Dr. Margo Maine is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in eating disorders and related issues for 40 years. A Founder and former Adviser of the National Eating Disorders Association and Founder and Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, she is the recipient of numerous accolades including NEDA and IAEDP lifetime achievement awards. She has led the development eight books related to body image and eating disorders, including the first edition of Treatment of Eating Disorders. Dr. Maine lectures nationally and internationally on eating disorders and women’s health and maintains a private practice, Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group.

Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Psychologist, Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group, Hartford, CT, USA

BM

Beth Hartman McGilley

Dr. Beth Hartman McGilley is a psychologist in private practice, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, athletes, trauma, and grief. Her practice is informed by feminist, HAES, and social justice perspectives. A Fellow of the AED and a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist/Survivor, she has practice psychotherapy for more than 35 years in addition to writing, lecturing, and supervising research on the topic. She co-edited the first edition of Treatment of Eating Disorders.

Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, KS, USA

DB

Douglas Bunnell

Dr. Douglas W. Bunnell is a clinical psychologist in Fairfield, Connecticut. He has specialized in the treatment of people with eating disorders for the last 35 years. Dr. Bunnell is a past board chair of the NEDA and recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Bunnell has helped to design, develop, and manage PHP and residential programs for several national eating disorder programs. He is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Certified Eating Disorder Supervisor for IAEDP. Dr. He co-edited the first edition of Treatment of Eating Disorders.

Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, Fairfield, CT, USA

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