Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders

The recent publication of the revised Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has had a profound
impact on the classification of eating disorders, introducing changes that
were formalized after years of study by the Eating Disorders Work Group. The
Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders is the
only book that provides clinicians with everything they need to know to
implement these changes in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. After an
overview of feeding and eating disorders that systematically reviews the
changes from DSM-IV to DSM-5, some of the foremost scholars in each area
address eating disorders in adults, children and adolescents, and special
populations. Chapters on assessment and treatment, along with accompanying
videos, offer comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage that will benefit
clinicians in practice, such as psychiatrists and psychotherapists, as well
as mental health trainees.

Clinicians will find the following features
and content especially useful:


* Five full chapters on assessment tools cover the evolution of
measures and instruments, from the primitive beginnings to the cutting edge
of new technological applications. The challenges of diagnosing feeding and
eating disorders in children and adolescents are also addressed.
*
Treatment chapters cover restrictive eating, including anorexia nervosa and
avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, binge eating, including bulimia
nervosa and binge-eating disorder, and other eating problems, including
pica, rumination disorder, and night eating syndrome.
* One chapter
focuses on eating problems among men and boys, who have diverse
presentations, and the motivations and body image disturbances that may
differ from those typically found among females.
* Because attunement to
culturally and socially patterned characteristics of clinical presentation
is essential to an informed and accurate mental health assessment, an entire
chapter is devoted to clinical effectiveness in multicultural and
cross-cultural settings.
* Each chapter ends with key clinical points to
help readers focus on the most salient content, test comprehension, and
review for examinations.

Clinicians in both training and practice
will find the book's up-to-date, DSM-5-compatible content to be utterly
essential. The Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating
Disorders belongs in the library of every mental health professional
practicing today.