Understanding eating disorders : integrating culture, psychology and biology / Yael Latzer, Joav Merrick, and Daniel Stein, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Latzer, Yael.

Merrick, Joav, 1950-

Stein, Daniel, 1949-

Series:

Health and human development series.

Health and human development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eating disorders.

Appetite disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eating disorders (EDs) are considered a major disease in the modern world, being one of the most prevailing public health problems among female adolescents and young adults in recent decades, and reaching epidemic proportions in many Western countries. The last two decades have envisioned an abundance of research in many aspects related to EDs. Nevertheless, EDs are still highly misunderstood disorders that often raise a host of negative emotions such as bewilderment, mistrust and fear. This book reviews research on the diagnosis and classification of EDs, as well as the historical and socio-cultural aspects and the genetics, biology and psychological considerations involved.

Contents:

""UNDERSTANDING EATING DISORDERS: INTEGRATING CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY ""; ""UNDERSTANDING EATING DISORDERS: INTEGRATING CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY ""; ""Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Eating Disorders: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Etiology and Prevention ""; ""Diagnosis""; ""Epidemiology ""; ""Etiology ""; ""1. Socio-cultural aspects ""; ""2. Genetic and biological considerations ""; ""3. Psychological considerations ""; ""4. Family-related considerations ""; ""Prevention ""; ""Conclusions ""; ""References ""; ""Section One: Overview ""

""Why DSM V needs to Consider a Staging Model for Anorexia Nervosa """"Introduction ""; ""Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Illness ""; ""The History of Disease Staging ""; ""Staging of Psychiatric Illnesses ""; ""Staging in Anorexia Nervosa""; ""Conclusions""; ""References ""; ""Night Eating Syndrome ""; ""Introduction ""; ""A Historical Review ""; ""Night Eating Drinking Syndrome""; ""Sleep Related Eating Disorder ""; ""Night Eating Syndrome and Obesity ""; ""Night Eating among Persons with Eating Disorder""; ""Night eating among Individuials with NES ""; ""Discussion ""

""Conclusions """"References ""; ""Clinical and Diagnostic Characteristics of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Incidence and Prevalence of Eating Disorders ""; ""Clinical Presentation of Anorexia Nervosa in Children and Adolescents ""; ""Clinical Presentation of Bulimia Nervosa""; ""Clinical Presentation of Atypical Eating Disorders ""; ""Diagnostic Issues I: Developmental Considerations ""; ""Developmental issues related to physical development ""; ""Developmental issues related to cognitive and linguistic development ""

""Developmental considerations related to systemic factors """"Diagnostic issues II: Making a Diagnosis in Children and Adolescents ""; ""Diagnostic issues III: The Appropriateness of the Current Diagnostic Nomenclature ""; ""Food avoidance emotional disorder (FAED)""; ""Selective eating ""; ""Pervasive refusal syndrome""; ""Conclusions ""; ""References ""; ""Section Two: History""; ""A Historical Background to Current Formulations of Eating Disorders ""; ""Introduction""; ""Anorexia Nervosa (AN) ""; ""Historical background ""; ""The classical period and Gnostic asceticism ""

""The early middle Ages 5th � 10th centuries)""""The late middle ages, the renaissance, and “holy anorexia� (the 12th � 16th centuries)""; ""From the Renaissance to the Victorian period (the 17th-18th centuries) ""; ""The Victorian period (the 19th century) ""; ""The 20th century ""; ""Current formulations ""; ""Bingeing/purging eating disorders ""; ""Historical background ""; ""Discussion ""; ""Anorexia nervosa ""; ""Bulimia nervosa ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""References""; ""Eating Disorders: Global Marker of Change ""; ""Introduction ""

""Interface between individual and environment ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61942-054-6

OCLC:

923654219