The field of feeding and eating disorders represents one of the most challenging areas in mental health, covering childhood, adolescent and adult manifestations of the disorders and requiring expertise in both the physical and psychological issues that can cause, maintain, and exacerbate these disorders.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Editors and Contributors
• A
• Acculturation to Western Culture in the Context of Eating Disorders
• Acceptance
• Activism
• Adaptations of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for In- and Day-Patient Work
• Addiction
• Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, Abnormal White Matter Properties in
• Advocacy
• Agoraphobia
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anorexia Nervosa (AN)
• Antenatal
• Anxiety Disorder
• Assessing Disordered Eating Behaviors in Children and Adolescents
• Assessment Burden
• Assessment Challenges
• Assessment Considerations
• Assessment of Children and Adolescents: Special Considerations
• Assessment of Dietary Intake/Dietary Restriction
• Assessment of Night Eating
• Athletic Participation
• Attentional and Interpretive Bias
• Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
• Awareness
• Awareness Raising
• Axis II Disorders
• B
• Bariatric (Weight Loss) Surgery
• Bariatric Surgery
• Behavioral Affective Response
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Binge Eating Scale (BES)
• Binge-Eating Disorder
• Bipolar Affective Disorder (BAD)
• Bipolar Disorder and Eating Disorders
• Body Checking Questionnaire (BCQ)
• Body Distortion: Perceptual Measurement of Body Image Disturbance
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Body Image
• Body Image and Disordered Eating in Midlife
• Body Image Attitudes – Body Image Beliefs
• Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire (BIAQ)
• Body Image-Acceptance and Action Questionnaire
• Body Mass
• Body Mass Index: Self and Parents
• Body Satisfaction
• Body Shape Questionnaire
• Body Size Distortion
• Body Size Overestimation
• Bone Density
• Bone Health
• Bone Mineral Density
• Brain Stimulation Treatments
• Brain-Directed Interventions
• Brief Analytic Therapy
• Brief Eating Disorder Assessment
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa (BN)
• Bulimia Test-Revised (BULIT-R)
• Burnout
• C
• Challenges in the Assessment of Eating Pathology in Youth
• Childhood Anorexia Nervosa and Development
• Choosing an Assessment Instrument/Method
• Classification: The Transdiagnostic Perspective
• Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA)
• Clinical Management
• Clinician Delivery (or Not) of Evidence-Based Treatments
• Cognitions
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) for Eating Disorders
• Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Prevention
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Cognitive Bias
• Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Eating Disorders
• Cognitive-Behavioral Model
• Colon
• Common Factors Across the Eating Disorder Models
• Community-Based Risk Factor Reduction
• Co-morbidities
• Comorbidities: Anxiety Disorders
• Comorbidity of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Eating Disorders
• Compassion-Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders
• Compensatory Purging
• Compulsions
• Compulsive Exercise
• Coping: Escape Avoidance
• Course and Outcome of Eating Disorders
• Critical Social Perspective
• Cross-Cultural Differences in Eating Disorders
• Cultural Literacy
• Current Status of Eating Disorder Prevention Research
• D
• DBS
• Deep Brain Stimulation for Patients with Eating Disorders
• Depressive Disorders
• Depth Psychology
• Depth Psychology Oriented Psychotherapies
• Description or Terminology or Interpretation
• Development and Consequences of Eating Disorders
• Diabetes
• Diabulimia
• Diagnostic Crossover
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for Eating Disorders
• Diary Assessment
• Dietary Counseling
• Dietetic Practice in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
• Dietetic Therapy
• Digital
• Disorders of Extreme Stress
• Displays of Emotions
• Dispositional Characteristics
• Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders
• Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Programs
• Dual Diagnosis
• Dual-Pathway Model of Bulimic Spectrum Eating Disorders
• Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ)
• Dysfunctional Coping
• E
• Early Intervention for Eating Disorders
• Early Weight Gain as a Predictor of Outcome in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
• Eating Attitudes Test
• Eating Behavior Assessment
• Eating Disorder
• Eating Disorder Assessment (EDA-5)
• Eating Disorder Belief – Attitudes
• Eating Disorder Belief Questionnaire
• Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale
• Eating Disorder Examination (EDE)/(EDE-Q)
• Eating Disorder Inventory
• Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
• Eating Disorder Prevention in the Real World
• Eating Disorder Questionnaire (EDQ)
• Eating Disorder Screening Measures
• Eating Disorder Treatment
• Eating Disorders
• Eating Disorders and Suicidality
• Eating Disorders and the Epigenome
• Eating Disorders in Boys and Men
• Eating Disorders in Males
• Eating Laboratory
• Eating Loss of Control Scale
• Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory (EPSI)
• Eating Patterns – Ways of Eating
• Eating Problems in Males
• Eating Related Psychopathology
• Ecological Momentary Assessment
• ED-15
• Effectiveness
• Effectiveness of Programs in Real-World Settings
• Effectiveness Research
• Efficacy Research
• Electrolytes and Eating Disorders
• Emotion Dysregulation
• Emotion Expression in Individuals with Feeding and Eating Disorders
• Emotion Regulation Difficulties
• Emotional Communication
• Emotional Eating Scale
• Emotional, Cognitive, or Behavioral Experience of Loss/Lack of Self-Control During a Binge Eating Episode
• Empirical Approaches to Classification
• Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Treatment Adapted for Younger Patients
• Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Treatment: Transdiagnostic Theory and Treatment
• Epidemiology of Eating Disorders
• Ethnicity and Eating Disorders: More Similarities than Differences
• Evidence Base
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Evidence-Based Prevention Program Delivery
• Exercise/Physical Activity
• Experience Sampling Method (ESM)
• Exposure-Based Strategies in Treating Eating Disorders, the Use of
• F
• Family Environment and Interactions and Parenting Style
• Family Meal in Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: Is It Important?
• Family Physician
• Family Psychoeducation
• Family Therapy
• Family-Based Treatment
• Fatigue
• Feces
• Feeding Disorder
• Feeding Disorders, Assessment of
• Feeding Laboratory
• Functional Analytic Model of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
• Future Directions
• Future Directions in Classification
• Future Directions in Eating Disorder Prevention
• G
• Gastric Emptying and Upper Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa
• Gene x Environment Interactions
• General Practitioner, Role of
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Genetic Overlap with Other Mental Illness
• Global Low Self-Worth
• H
• Helping Alliance
• Hemodynamic Instability Bradycardia
• Hospital Treatment for Eating Disorders
• Hyperphagia: Overeating
• I
• Identity
• Illness Stage
• Impact of Psychiatric Comorbidity on Eating Disorder Outcomes
• Implicit Measures
• Inappropriate Compensatory Behaviors
• Indirect Measures
• Initial
• Inpatient and Day-Patient Treatment for Severe Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
• Insulin Omission
• Intensive Longitudinal Methods
• Intensive Treatments
• Internalizing Symptoms, Affect Reactivity, and Distress Tolerance in Eating Disorders
• Internet
• Interpersonal Dysfunction as a Risk Factor for Eating Disorders
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
• Interventions for Carers
• Intestinal Microbiota in Eating Disorders
• Involuntary Treatment and Ethical Considerations
• J
• Juvenile Diabetes and Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
• K
• Key Therapeutic Role of Nutrition Across Therapies and Settings
• L
• Laboratory Meal Assessment
• Latent Structure Analyses
• Lived Experience Perspectives on Treatment and Recovery
• Longitudinal
• Loss of Control (LOC) Eating in Children
• Loss of Control Eating
• Loss of Control Eating Behavior in Youth
• Loss of Control Over Eating
• Loss of Control Over Eating Scale
• Low Bone Mineral Density
• M
• Maintenance Treatment
• Maladaptive Coping
• Male Gaze
• Malnutrition
• Management of the Special Needs of Students with Eating Disorders
• Manic-Depressive Illness (MAD)
• Maudsley Family Therapy
• Maudsley Model of Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults (MANTRA)
• Maudsley Model of Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults (MANTRA): A Cognitive-Interpersonal Model of Illness Development and Maintenance
• Measure
• Measures of Automatic Processing
• Media Literacy Approaches to Prevention
• Medical Complications in Children and Adolescents: A Review of Cardiac Complications in Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders
• Medical Complications in Children and Adolescents: A Review of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
• Medical Complications: Adults (Pregnancy)
• Medical Condition
• Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)
• Medications for Eating Disorders
• Microbes
• Microbiome
• Microbiota
• Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Prevention of Eating Disorders
• Moderators and Mediators
• Momentary Real-Time Assessment
• Motivational Approaches
• Multidimensional Body–Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ)
• Multifamily Group (MFG)
• Multifamily Group Therapy (MFGT)
• Multifamily Interventions with Adolescent Eating Disorders
• Multifamily Therapy (MFT)
• Munich ED-Quest
• N
• n-3 Fatty Acids
• Narrow Coping Repertoire
• Nasogastric Refeeding
• Nationality
• Negative Self-Evaluations
• Negative Self-Judgments
• Neonatal
• Neurocognitive Styles in Eating Disorders
• Neuromodulation Treatments
• Neuroscientifically Informed Models of Body Image Distortion in Eating Disorders
• Night Eating Evaluation
• Night Eating Survey
• Night Eating Syndrome History Inventory (NESHI)/Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ)
• Nocturnal Eating Assessment
• Non-judgmental
• Non-specific Supportive Clinical Management
• Nosology
• Nutrition Counseling
• Nutrition Interventions
• Nutrition Therapy
• Nutritional Data Systems for Research
• O
• Obesity
• Obesity and Eating Disorders
• Obesity Prevention and Its Impact on Eating Disorders
• Objectification
• Objectification Theory Model of Eating Disorders
• Objective Binge Eating
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Eating Disorder Comorbidity
• Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder as a Risk Factor for Eating Disorders
• Obstetric – Complications
• Olanzapine as an Adjunctive Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
• ω-3 Fatty Acids
• Omega 3 Fatty Acids as Adjunctive Treatment for Eating Disorders
• Origin
• Osteoporosis
• Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED)
• Outcome Evaluation
• Outreach Programs: An Alternative Model of Care for Individuals with Enduring Eating Disorders
• Overall Low Self-Regard
• Overconcern with Shape and Weight
• Overevaluation of Shape and Weight and Its Assessment
• Oxytocin in Feeding and Eating Disorders, Role of
• P
• Panic Disorder
• Parent Influences – Mother and Father Influences
• Parent Influences on Body Image Attitudes and Eating Patterns in Early Childhood
• Parenting Intervention
• Peer Interaction – Relationships with Friends and People of Similar Age
• Peer Interactions and Relationships
• Peer-Facilitated Programs
• Perfectionism
• Perinatal Complications
• Personality Disorders as Comorbidities in Eating Disorders
• Personality-Based Approaches to Classification
• Pica and Rumination Disorder
• Pituitary Gland: Hypophysis
• Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs)
• Positive Body Embodiment
• Posterior Pituitary Lobe: Neurohypophysis
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Predictors of Treatment Outcome
• Prenatal
• Present-Moment
• Prevention
• Prevention in Nonschool/University Settings
• Prevention Programs with High-Risk Populations
• Primary Care Physician
• Primary Prevention
• Professional Development
• Prognostic Factors
• Program Presenter
• Progression and Prognosis of Eating Disorders
• Prompt
• Psychoanalytics
• Psycho-Dynamic
• Psycho-Dynamic Family or Group Therapy
• Psychodynamic Model
• Psychological Profile
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy for Anorexia Nervosa
• Pubertal Changes
• Pubertal Development and Timing
• Pubertal Maturation
• Purging Behaviors
• Purpose of Assessment
• R
• Rapid
• Recovery from Eating Disorders
• Recovery Stories, Role in Treatment
• Refeeding
• Refeeding and/or Regular Eating in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
• Relapse Prevention
• Relevant to Eating Disorders
• Resistance Skills
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Factor Reduction Outside of Schools
• Risk Factors
• Rituals
• RO (Radically Open)
• S
• Schema Therapy with Eating Disorders
• SCOFF Questionnaire
• Self-Compassion as Protective Factor
• Self-Concept
• Self-Criticism and Low Self-Esteem
• Self-Directed Interventions
• Self-Esteem and Eating Disorders
• Self-Help Treatments
• Self-Kindness
• Self-Objectification
• Self-Report Measure
• Sensitivity Training
• Severity Dimensions
• Sexual Objectification
• Sexualization
• Shared Genetic Risk with Other Psychiatric Disorders
• Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy
• Signaling Matters: Radically Open-Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Sociocultural Environment and Internalization of the Thin Ideal as Eating Disorder Risk Factors
• Specialist Supportive Care
• Specialist Supportive Clinical Management for Anorexia Nervosa
• Specific Phobia
• Spiral Model of Dieting and Disordered Eating
• Starvation
• Starvation in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Relevance to Eating Disorders
• Stepped Care
• Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID)
• Substance Use Disorder
• Substance-Related Disorders in Eating Disorders
• Subtypes
• Subtyping
• Suicide Assessment
• Suicide Risk
• Suicide Screen
• Supportive Therapy
• Surgery for Obesity and Impact on Disordered Eating
• Sustained Wellness
• T
• Technology in Assessment and Treatment
• Temperament
• Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
• Therapeutic Bond
• Therapeutic Relationship
• Three-Factor Theory: Psychosocial Factors of Eating Disorder Behaviors
• Training Service Providers in Evidence-Based Prevention Programs
• Traits
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as an Adjunct Therapy
• Transdiagnostic Prevention of Eating Disorders
• Translating Efficacy into Effectiveness
• Trauma-Induced Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders
• Treating Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa when Family-Based Treatment Is Insufficient or Contraindicated
• Treating Perfectionism and the Impact on Disordered Eating
• Treatment
• Treatment Matching: Eating Disorder Diagnosis and Selection of the Best Treatment
• Treatment of ARFID
• Type 1 Diabetes
• U
• Uncontrolled Eating in Children and Adolescents
• Undernutrition
• Undue Influence of Shape and Weight on Self-Evaluation
• Universal Prevention
• Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorder (UFED)
• Use of Virtual Reality Methods in Treating Eating Disorders and Body Image
• W
• Web-Based Approaches to Prevention
• Weighing as Treatment for Eating Disorders
• Weight
• Weight and Shape Concern and Body Image as Risk Factors for Eating Disorders
• Weight Loss Surgery
• Working Alliance