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This Handbook is a comprehensive yet succinct addition to the literature for all doctors, nurses, and members of the multidisciplinary team in managing the complex and multifactorial conditions that arise in patients with eating disorders, filled with evidence-based treatment, case-studies drawn from real life, and key need-to-know facts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Overview
- 2: History and examination
- 3: Anorexia nervosa
- 4: Bulimia nervosa
- 5: Binge eating disorder
- 6: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
- 7: Pica
- 8: Rumination disorder
- 9: Other feeding or eating disorders
- 10: Emerging eating disorder diagnoses
- 11: Comorbidities
- 12: Ethical and legal aspects
- 13: Acute emergency care
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Dr Elizabeth McNaught is a medical doctor with a personal experience of anorexia nervosa, and a co-founder of Family Mental Wealth, a foundation designed to transform mental health provision for children and young people.
Professor Janet Treasure is a world-leading clinical and academic psychiatrist in eating disorders. She has been a principal investigator on several multi-centre studies in eating disorders and a coinvestigator on many international studies. She has mentored over 60 PhD students and numerous clinicians.
Nick Pollard is the father of Dr Elizabeth McNaught and therefore has a personal, as well as professional, knowledge of eating disorders. When his daughter was very ill, he gained a personal understanding of important insights which became instrumental in her recovery. He is now the director of Family Mental Wealth, a social-enterprise working with King's College London and the University of Southampton to facilitate family-based pro-active self-care for mental health and wellbeing.
Zusammenfassung
This Handbook is a comprehensive yet succinct addition to the literature for all doctors, nurses, and members of the multidisciplinary team in managing the complex and multifactorial conditions that arise in patients with eating disorders, filled with evidence-based treatment, case-studies drawn from real life, and key need-to-know facts.
