Eating disorders and obesity
Subtitle: a comprehensive handbook
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 583
Table of contents: title: Regulation of eating and weight. Central physiological determinants of eating behavior and body weight -- Peripheral physiological determinants of eating and body weight -- The psychobiological approach to appetite and weight control -- Genetic influences on body weight and shape -- Energy intake and body weight -- Energy expenditure and body weight -- Effects of energy imbalance on energy stores and body weight -- Body composition -- A set-point model of body weight and weight gain -- Pregnancy and weight gain -- Effects of weight cycling on metabolism, health, and psychological factors -- Cigarette smoking and body weight -- Body weight and age -- Dieting and body image. Social influences on body weight -- Cultural influences on eating disorders -- Dieting and its relation to eating disorders -- The controversy over dieting -- Measurement. Measurement of body energy stores -- Measurement of food intake -- Measurement of energy expenditure -- Measurement of physical activity -- Measurement of eating disorder psychopathology -- Classification, clinical characteristics, and history of eating disorders. Classification and diagnosis of eating disorders -- Atypical eating disorders -- History of anorexia nervosa -- The history of bulimia and bulimia nervosa -- The clinical presentation of anorexia and bulima nervosa -- Eating disorders and their relation to mood and anxiety disorders -- Eating disorders and addictive disorders -- Personality and eating disorders -- Eating disorders in males -- Childhood-onset eating disorders -- Eating disorders and childrearing -- Eating disorders in athletes -- Epidemiology, etiology, and course of eating disorders. The development and maintenance of eating disorders -- The distribution of eating disorders -- Family-genetic perspectives on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa -- The families of patients with and eating disorder -- A feminist perspective on the etiology of eating disorders -- Sexual abuse and eating disorders -- The course and outcome of anorexia nervosa -- Outcome of bulimia nervosa -- Physiological and medical aspects of eating disorders. Hunger and satiety in clinical eating disorders -- Physiology of anorexia nervosa -- Neurotransmitters and anorexia nervosa -- Physiology of bulimia nervosa -- Medical complications of anorexia nervosa -- Medical complications of bulimia nervosa -- Eating disorders and diabetes -- Sexual and reproductive function in eating disorders and obesity -- Treatment of eating disorders. The prevention of eating disorders -- Feminist influences on the treatment of eating disorders -- Psychoeducation in the treatment of eating disorders -- The nutritional management of anorexia and bulimia nervosa -- Pharmacotherapy of eating disorders -- Family therapy and eating disorders -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anorexia nervosa -- Psychodynamic psychotherapy for anorexia nervosa -- Inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa -- Short-term psychological treatments for bulimia nervosa -- Psychodynamic treatment of bulimia nervosa -- Intensive brief inpatient treatment of bulimia nervosa -- Inpatient treatment of multi-impulsive bulimia nervosa -- Assessment and treatment of body image disturbance -- The management of patients with intractable eating disorders -- Scope, consequences, and physiology of obesity. History of obesity -- Definition and classification of obesity -- Prevalence and demographics of obesity -- Epidemiologic studies of health risks due to excess weight -- Medical complications of obesity -- Effects of weight loss on weight-related risk factors -- The association of weight loss with morbidity and mortality -- Psychosocial consequences of obesity -- Metabolic effects of exercise in overweight individuals  -- Social and psychological effects of weight loss -- Obesity in minority populations -- Childhood obesity : prevalence and effects -- Binge eating and obesity -- The importance of body fat distribution -- The molecular biology of obesity -- Impact of sugar and fat substitutes on food intake -- Assessment and treatment of obesity. Clinical assessment of obese patients -- Standards for the treatment of obesity -- Exercise in the treatment of obesity -- Behavioral approaches to the treatment of obesity -- Very-low-calorie diets: appraisal and recommendations -- Popular diets -- Commercial and self-help approaches to weight management -- Pharmacological treatment of obesity -- Surgical interventions for obesity -- Management of obesity in children -- Treatment of obesity in the diabetic patient -- Managing chronic refractory obesity -- Treatment of the obese binge eater -- Weight loss programs for minority populations -- Relapse : a cognitive-behavioral model -- Methods for maintaining weight loss -- Matching individuals to treatments -- Public health approaches to the management of obesity -- Compassionate treatment of the obese individual -- Prevention of obesity.