Main description:

This important and well researched volume examines the clinical phenomenon of eating disorders, exploring their longitudinal risk trajectory and introducing the Mindful Emotion Regulation - Approach (MER-A) as a starting point for intervention.

The book reviews various eating problems that can originate from the earliest perinatal phase to early adolescence, and through the MER-A framework focuses on how the principles of mindfulness and the related theoretical and clinical bases underlying the construct of emotional regulation can guide the clinician to a deeper understanding of a patient's disordered eating. Featuring reflections on clinical cases, it includes coverage of patients' difficulties in regulating emotions, their relationships with various eating behaviours and their associated interpersonal features.

Mindfulness and Eating Disorders across the Lifespan represents an attempt to provide a complete appreciation of this complex and multifaceted topic, making it of great importance to psychotherapists and related mental health professionals working with eating disorders.

Contents:

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction (Gaia de Campora and Giulio Cesare Zavattini); Part I: Regulation and nutrition; 1. From the prenatal phase to early adulthood: Risk factors and regulatory processes in the individual's lifespan (Gaia de Campora and Giulio Cesare Zavattini); 2 Mindful Emotion Regulation - Approach (MER-A): A theoretical model for the treatment of eating disorders during development (Gaia de Campora); Part II: Assessment and treatment across the life course; 3. Overweight and obesity risk in the first three years of life (Gaia de Campora and Giulio Cesare Zavattini); 4. Infantile anorexia and Post-Traumatic Feeding Disorder in early infancy (Loredana Lucarelli); 5. Food refusal in preschool-age children (Elena Trombini and Giancarlo Trombini); 6. Food selectivity and pre-adolescence (Anna Maria Delogu); 7. Bulimia and adolescence (Mojgan Khademi and Heidi Miller Brunetto); References; Index