Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898628504 ISBN 13: 9780898628500

Verlag: Guilford Publications, 1995

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This unique handbook presents and integrates virtually all that is currently known about eating disorders and obesity in one authoritative, accessible, and eminently practical volume. From leading international authorities, 112 concise chapters encapsulate the latest information on all pertinent topics, from biological, psychological, and social processes associated with risk, to clinical methods for assessment and intervention. Suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter replace extended references and enhance the practical value and readability of the volume.

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Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. An internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation, he has served as president of several national organizations and has received numerous awards and honors for his work. His recent publications include [ital]Behavioral Medicine and Women[ital] (coedited with Elaine A. Blechman).

Christopher G. Fairburn, DM, FRCPsych., is Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer and Honorary Clinical Reader in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. A well-known international authority on eating disorders with research programs in Britain and the United States, he is coeditor (with G. Terence Wilson) of Binge Eating and author of Overcoming Binge Eating.

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Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., is an internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation. He is Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. In 1994, he became Master of Silliman College at Yale. He has served as President of several national organizations, including the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences and the award for Outstanding Contribution to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association. He has published 12 books and more than 150 scientific articles. One book received the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book from the American Library Association, and his paper on "Understanding and Preventing Relapse" published in the American Psychologist has been listed as one of the ten most frequently cited papers in psychology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0898628504
• ISBN 13: 9780898628500
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592
• Herausgeber: Brownell Kelly D., Fairburn Christopher G.
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