Janet Treasure & Ulrike Schmidt 
The Essential Handbook of Eating Disorders 

This is a concise paperback version of the authoritative and
comprehensive Handbook of Eating Disorders, Second Edition,
focusing on the most practical elements from that volume. Ideal for
the individual practitioner, this selection of chapters
concentrates on the main therapeutic approaches in use, including
cognitive behavioural treatments, interpersonal psychotherapy,
family interventions, dialectical behaviour therapy and drug
treatments.

Indispensable for those working in the eating disorders field, such
as clinical psychologists, child psychologists, family therapists,
psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and occupational
therapists. The Essential Handbook of Eating Disorders will also be
of interest to researchers, lecturers and those in training in the
field.

表中的内容

About the Editors.

Contributors.

Preface.

Chapter 1. Concepts of Eating Disorders (Bob Palmer).

Chapter 2. Epidemiology (Daphne van Hoeken, Jacob Seidell and
Hans Wijbrand Hoek).

Chapter 3. Cognitive-Behavioural Models (Roz Shafran and Padmal
de Silva).

Chapter 4. Medical Complications (Stephen Zipfel, Bernd
Löwe and Wolfgang Herzog).

Chapter 5. Family, Burden of Care and Social Consequences
(Søren Nielsen and Núria Bará-Carril).

Chapter 6. Treatment Overview (Janet Treasure and Ulrike
Schmidt).

Chapter 7. Assessment and Motivation (Janet Treasure and
Beatrice Bauer).

Chapter 8. Cognitive-Behavioural Treatments (Glenn Waller and
Helen Kennerley).

Chapter 9. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Denise Wilfley, Rick
Stein and Robinson Welch).

Chapter 10. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (Bob Palmer and Helen
Birchall).

Chapter 11. Family Interventions (Ivan Eisler, Daniel le Grange
and Eia Asen).

Chapter 12. Drug Treatments (Tijs Bruna and Jaap Fogteloo).

Chapter 13. Day Treatments (Paul Robinson).

Chapter 14. Inpatient Treatment (Anthony Winston and Peter
Webster).

Index.

关于作者

Janet Treasure, Department of Psychiatry, Guys Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Professor Treasure is a psychiatrist who has specialised in the treatment of eating disorders for over 20 years. She trained with Professor Gerald Russell at the Maudsley hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry. The clinic provides treatment for a population of 2 million in south-east London and is a national referral centre. The unit is active in research and development.

Ulrike Schmidt, Section of Eating Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
Dr Ulrike Schmidt is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Eating Disorders Unit at the Maudsley Hospital and Reader in Eating Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry. Her research interests include all aspects of eating disorders, but in particular brief psychological and self-help treatments. She has co-authored two self-help books and accompanying clinicians’ guides.

Eric van Furth, Robert-Fleury Stichting, national Centre for Eating Disorders, The Netherlands
Dr Eric van Furth is a psychologist-Psychotherapist in the National Centre for Eating Disorders at the Robert-Fleury Stichting (Robert-Fleury Foundation), a general psychiatric hospital in Leidschendam, The Netherlands. he is Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry of Leiden University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London (UK).