Eating disorders in children and adolescents : a clinical handbook

Le Grange, Daniel. (Added Author). Lock, James. (Added Author).

Summary: "Eating disorders typically first appear during childhood and adolescence. Despite this early age of onset, edited volumes on eating disorders have not focused on this age cohort. One of the primary purposes of this book is to redress this imbalance and target the unique issues that pertain to the development, assessment, and treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescents, a period of heightened vulnerability to the these disorders and to the potential damage they can cause"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781609184919 (hardback)
Physical Description: print
xv, 512 p. ; 27 cm.
Publisher: New York : Guilford Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- ch. 1. Childhood and adolescence : looking at eating disorders when they start / Daniel Le Grange -- Part I. Etiology and neurobiology -- ch. 2. Neurobiology of anorexia nervosa / Walter H. Kaye -- ch. 3. Environmental and genetic risk factors for eating disorders : a developmental perspective / Sarah E. Racine . . . [et al.] -- ch. 4. The role of family environment in etiology : a neuroscience perspective / Michael Strober and Tara Peris -- Part II. Epidemiology and course -- ch. 5. Epidemiology of eating disorders in children and adolescents / Mark L. Norris, Susan J. Bondy, and Leora Pinhas -- ch. 6. Course and outcome / Hans-Christoph Steinhausen -- Part III. Diagnosis and classification -- ch. 7. Diagnosis and classification of disordered eating in childhood / Rachel Bryant-Waugh and Dasha Nicholls -- ch. 8. Diagnosis and classification of eating disorders in adolescence / Kamryn R. Eddy, David B. Herzog, and Nancy L. Zucker -- Part IV. Medical issues and assessment -- ch. 9. Medical issues unique to children and adolescents / Debra K. Katzman and Sherri M. Findlay -- ch. 10. Assessment of eating disorders in children and adolescents / Katharine L. Loeb, Melanie Brown, and Michal Munk Goldstein --