Title: Body image, eating disorders, and obesity in youth : assessment, prevention, and treatment /
Authors: Smolak, Linda, 1951-; Thompson, J. Kevin; American Psychological Association
Publisher: American Psychological Association,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Feeding and Eating Disorders; Eating disorders; Adolescent; Child; Obesity; Body Image; Eating disorders in adolescence; Body image in adolescence; Body image disturbance; Obesity in adolescence
Abstract: 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. But as the empirical data presented in this second edition of a this volume show, these disorders are preventable and treatable. Research in these three areas has exploded since the publication of the first edition, and in these new pages leading researchers and practitioners detail recent progress in treatment and discuss areas of persisting challenge. Risk factors for these conditions appear early in development, and many of these factors are social and familial. Cultural variables play a powerful role, too, and the authors in this book demonstrate how body image and eating problems present and vary across ethnic groups and in boys and girls. It considers all three of these challenging areas together, and provides a range of information, from very early experience through treatment. All chapters are empirically based and contain suggestions for future research. This book assimilates up-to-date information into a form that is readily accessible by clinicians, researchers, and students.
Contents: Early parental influence and risk for the emergence of disordered eating / Jennifer O. Fisher, Meghan M. Sinton, and Leann L. Birch -- Defining eating disorders in children / Beth Watkins and Bryan Lask -- Body image in girls / Eleanor H. Wertheim, Susan J. Paxton, and Simone Blaney -- Body image in preadolescent boys / Lina A. Ricciardelli [and others] -- Overweight, eating behaviors, and body image in ethnically diverse youth / Debra L. Franko and Jessica B. Edwards George -- Cross-cultural issues in body image among children and adolescents / Eileen Anderson-Fye -- Risk factors in the development of body image, eating problems, and obesity / Linda Smolak -- Proximal causes and behaviors associated with pediatric obesity / Eve Kutchman [and others] -- Assessment of body image in children and adolescents / Tovah Yanover and J. Kevin Thompson -- Assessment of eating disturbances in children and adolescents / Drew A. Anderson [and others] -- Recent developments and promising directions in the prevention of negative body image and disordered eating in children and adolescents / Michael P. Levine and Linda Smolak.