Facing Eating Disorder Fears (Fedf)
An Exposure Therapy Based Approach: Therapist Guide
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-0-19-781687-5 (ISBN)
Description
Anxiety is a common experience for those with eating disorders, often linked to food, body shape, weight, and social eating situations. Exposure therapy is a cornerstone of successful treatment, teaching clients to tolerate anxiety and related emotions without avoidance. Facing Eating Disorder Fears (FEDF) is a structured, evidence-based treatment program designed to help individuals with eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder, to reduce anxiety related to eating disorder fears. This therapist guide introduces FEDF, a program that combines psychoeducation, skill-building, and exposure-based strategies to help clients face their fears safely and effectively. This book will guide the therapist through each session, providing structured exercises, scripts, worksheets, and handouts to optimize the therapeutic experience, and is designed to be used along with the corresponding client workbook.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
978-0-19-781687-5 (9780197816875)
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Cheri A. Levinson is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville. She directs the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) lab where she conducts research aimed at developing and testing novel treatments for eating disorders. She has more than 200 professional publications and more than 350 presentations in the area of eating disorder treatment. She is also the founder of the Louisville Center for Eating Disorders, which is the only eating disorder specialty clinic in the state of KY. Rachel M. Butler is a licensed psychologist and researcher whose work aims to improve treatment outcomes for eating disorders. She has published research on topics related to conceptualizing fear and anxiety in eating disorders, adapting exposure therapy to the treatment of eating disorders, and social anxiety disorder. She supervises doctoral students at the University of Louisville and trains clinicians in the delivery of exposure-based treatment approaches.