This handbook offers the field's most comprehensive collection of assessment tools related to eating behaviors.

Up-to-date coverage on the assessment and treatment of eating disorders and obesity.

Leading experts discuss the causes and consequences of obesity and present a framework for clinical treatment.

The main approaches to treatment are covered in sufficient detail to give clinicians a step-by-step blueprint for the conduct of therapy.

This book explores diverse populations who suffer with eating disorders. Studies that provide a wider representation of gender, social class, race/ethnicity, religion and other social categories are offered, and case illustrations are presented.

Prominent therapists provide diverse and thought-provoking narratives on a wide-range of themes related to eating disorders and addictions.

Stories have the power to change lives. Based on actual clients of a psychologist who specializes in eating and body image disorders.

Every clinician who works in this field encounters ethical questions related to such topics as refusal of treatment, force-feeding, and mental competency to make decisions regarding treatment.

A biography of Hilde Bruch, author of The Golden Cage, the bestseller that introduced anorexia nervosa into popular culture.