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Eating Disorders: A Comprehensive Guide to Medical Care and Complications
A comprehensive guide on how to diagnose, treat, and care for those with eating disorders. Eating disorders, which include such conditions as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and pica, represent a challenge to both patients and health care providers alike. For more than 20 years, health care providers have turned to the expert advice found in Eating Disorders to keep up to date with the latest research in the field and to help them provide the best care available for their patients. In this new, thoroughly revised and expanded edition of their best-selling work, Drs. Philip S. Mehler and Arnold E. Andersen provide a user-friendly and comprehensive guide to treating and managing eating disorders for primary care physicians, mental health professionals, worried family members and friends, and nonmedical professionals (such as teachers and coaches). Mehler and Andersen • identify common medical complications faced by people who have eating disorders
• answer questions about how to treat both physical and behavioral aspects of eating disorders
• discuss serious complications, including cardiac arrhythmia, electrolyte abnormalities, and gastrointestinal problems
• incorporate all-new information on avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge eating disorder, and the role of social media in promoting disordered eating
• offer targeted advice for working with specialists
• include four new chapters on eating disorders in children and adolescents; atypical anorexia; eating disorders in transgender individuals; and family therapy
• feature engaging clinical vignettes
• answer a list of common questions practitioners may have in each chapter The most comprehensive work on the market and the only book that covers eating disorders in transgender individuals, Eating Disorders is a compassionate, evidence-based, and essential guide. Arnold E. Andersen, Ovidio Bermudez, Jeana Cost, Meghan Foley, Dennis Gibson, Neville Golden, Sacha Gorell, Jeffrey Hollis, Mori J. Krantz, Daniel Le Grange, Russell Marx, Jennifer McBride, Philip S. Mehler, Leah Puckett, Katherine Sachs, Michael Spaulding-Barclay, Anna Tanner, Nathalia Trees, Jessica Tse, Kenneth Weiner, Patricia Westmoreland
• answer questions about how to treat both physical and behavioral aspects of eating disorders
• discuss serious complications, including cardiac arrhythmia, electrolyte abnormalities, and gastrointestinal problems
• incorporate all-new information on avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge eating disorder, and the role of social media in promoting disordered eating
• offer targeted advice for working with specialists
• include four new chapters on eating disorders in children and adolescents; atypical anorexia; eating disorders in transgender individuals; and family therapy
• feature engaging clinical vignettes
• answer a list of common questions practitioners may have in each chapter The most comprehensive work on the market and the only book that covers eating disorders in transgender individuals, Eating Disorders is a compassionate, evidence-based, and essential guide. Arnold E. Andersen, Ovidio Bermudez, Jeana Cost, Meghan Foley, Dennis Gibson, Neville Golden, Sacha Gorell, Jeffrey Hollis, Mori J. Krantz, Daniel Le Grange, Russell Marx, Jennifer McBride, Philip S. Mehler, Leah Puckett, Katherine Sachs, Michael Spaulding-Barclay, Anna Tanner, Nathalia Trees, Jessica Tse, Kenneth Weiner, Patricia Westmoreland
632 pages, Paperback
Published May 10, 2022
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August 14, 2023
A Comprehensive Guide for Clinicians
Covering the screening for, diagnosis of, and treatment of what the authors rightly call the "eating disorder spectrum," this book is essential for primary care providers, psychiatrists, therapists, and other professionals who care for their patients. Given hat a study they cite found eating disorder symptoms in 16% of an adult emergency room sample, this means physicians should consider an eating disorder as a possibility in all of their patients.
The authors support that eating disorders occur in all types of bodies by including chapters specific to men, children and adolescents, transgender people, and athletes. Scattered throughout are inclusions of other affected groups, such as gay men, people in bigger bodies, and older adults, but in future editions, I would welcome distinct chapters for each of these communities. Especially glaring is the omission of a section for racial and ethnic minorities, as these individuals are particularly under-diagnosed and inadequately researched.
A small, final complaint is that certain chapters could do with more thorough copyediting; for instance, the first chapter cites inconsistent figures related to the age range of patients treated (at both "7 to 72" and "7 to 77"), the estimated heredity of eating disorders (while citing the same study), and the mortality rate of eating disorders (claiming both that they're the top and second-from-the-top psychiatric disorders for risk of death). I'd happily volunteer to help, if desired!
Covering the screening for, diagnosis of, and treatment of what the authors rightly call the "eating disorder spectrum," this book is essential for primary care providers, psychiatrists, therapists, and other professionals who care for their patients. Given hat a study they cite found eating disorder symptoms in 16% of an adult emergency room sample, this means physicians should consider an eating disorder as a possibility in all of their patients.
The authors support that eating disorders occur in all types of bodies by including chapters specific to men, children and adolescents, transgender people, and athletes. Scattered throughout are inclusions of other affected groups, such as gay men, people in bigger bodies, and older adults, but in future editions, I would welcome distinct chapters for each of these communities. Especially glaring is the omission of a section for racial and ethnic minorities, as these individuals are particularly under-diagnosed and inadequately researched.
A small, final complaint is that certain chapters could do with more thorough copyediting; for instance, the first chapter cites inconsistent figures related to the age range of patients treated (at both "7 to 72" and "7 to 77"), the estimated heredity of eating disorders (while citing the same study), and the mortality rate of eating disorders (claiming both that they're the top and second-from-the-top psychiatric disorders for risk of death). I'd happily volunteer to help, if desired!
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