Main description:

Concise and practical yet comprehensive, this unique book provides a clear framework and a range of up-to-date tools for assessing patients with eating disorders. Leading clinicians and researchers describe the nuts and bolts of using diagnostic interviews, standardized databases, structured instruments, self-report and family-based measures, medical and nutritional assessment, ecological momentary assessment, and strategies for evaluating body image disturbance. Concrete examples and sample forms are included throughout, and the concluding chapter discusses how to use assessment data in individualized treatment planning.

Contents:

1. Diagnostic Issues, B. Timothy Walsh and Dana A. Satir

2. The Classification of Eating Disorders, Kathryn H. Gordon, Jill M. Denoma, and Thomas E. Joiner, Jr.

3. Conducting the Diagnostic Interview, Carol B. Peterson

4. A Standardized Database, James E. Mitchell

5. Structured Instruments, Carlos M. Grilo

6. Self-Report Measures, Carol B. Peterson and James E. Mitchell

7. Medical Assessment, Scott Crow and Susan Swigart

8. Nutritional Assessment, Cheryl L. Rock

9. Family Assessment, Daniel le Grange

10. Assessment of Body Image Disturbance,

J. Kevin Thompson, Megan Roehrig, Guy Cafri, and Leslie J. Heinberg

11. Ecological Momentary Assessment, Scott G. Engel, Steve A. Wonderlich, and Ross D. Crosby

12. Treatment Planning, James E. Mitchell