Bio-Psycho-Social Contributions to Understanding Eating Disorders [Hardcover]

This book uniquely combines cutting-edge medical, psychological, and sociocultural topics pertinent to eating disorders. In the medical realm, the book focuses on Eating Disorders newly investigated associations with ADHD and sleep disorders, and on innovative treatments of osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa. Novel contributions in the psychological realm address families trans-generational transmission of Eating Disorders-related difficulties and novel internet-based treatments for such families. Lastly, in the sociocultural realm, the book discusses social contagion and Pro-Ana websites as increasing risk for disordered eating in young women around the globe.

This volume provides readers with more holistic perspectives of each realm and their interplay, to promote Eating Disorders understanding, treatment, prevention, and research. It provides various professionals including mental health providers, physicians, nutritionists, and graduate students in these professions.  

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Bio-psycho-social Contributions to the Understanding of Eating Disorders; Yael Latzer and Daniel Stein.- Part I. Medical Issues.- Chapter 2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Binge Eating: Shared Phenomenology, Genetics and Response to Treatment; Allan S. Kaplan, Andrew L. Howlett, Zeynep Yilmaz and robert Levitas.- Chapter 3. The Interplay between Eating and Sleeping Behaviour in Adolescence: Normative and Disordered Trajectories; Yael Latzer, Sarah L.Weinberger-Litman, Leib Litman and Orna Tzicshinsky.- Chapter 4. Endrocrinopathies of Eating Disorders; Nehama Zuckerman-Levin, Ze'ev Hochberg, Patricia E. Dunne and Yael Lazter.- Chapter 5. Skeletal Involvement in Eating Disorders; Nehama Zuckerman-Levin, Yael Latzer, Patricia E. Dunne, and Ze'ev Hochberg.- Part II. Psychological Issues.- lÓÆ