Description
Get a quick, expert overview of best practices for diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders in children and adolescents. This concise resource by Drs. Johannes Hebebrand and Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann provides psychiatrists and pediatricians with current information in this increasingly important field, including practical sections on developmental aspects of eating disorders, symptomology, epidemiology, etiology and pathyphysiology, treatment and outcomes, and prevention.- Discusses general concepts for feeding, eating, and weight disorders; body weight and composition, appetite regulation, and the emergence of body perception and image.- Covers genetics of eating and weight disorders, influence of hormones, intergenerational effects, and food addiction.- Includes information on cognitive behavioral therapy, family-based therapies, early intervention, pharmacotherapy, bariatric surgery, and other treatments.- Consolidates today's available information on this timely topic into a single convenient resource.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction1. Overarching concepts for feeding, eating and weight disordersDevelopmental Aspects2. Body weight and body composition in childhood and adolescence: Diagnostic issues and current controversies3. Appetite regulation4. Emergence of body perception and body imageSymptomatology: Eating Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood5. ARFID and other disorders of early childhood6. Loss of control of eating in childrenAdolescent Eating Disorders7. Definition, symptomatology and comorbidity8. Adolescent obesity and comorbidityEpidemiology9. International comparison of the prevalence rates of childhood and adolescent eating and weight disorders (relationship between the obesity epidemic and trends for eating disorders)10. Prevalence and tracking of different weight categories including obesityEtiology and Pathophysiology11. Genetics of eating and weight disorders12. Influence of Hormones, Female Sex13. Endocrine mechanisms in obesity14. Microbiome and inflammation in eating disorders15. Eating disordered mothers and their children: intergenerational effects16. Food/eating addiction17. Stigmatization associated with obesityTreatment18. Cognitive behavioural therapy in adolescent eating disorders19. Family-based therapies20. Inpatient and day patient treatments of eating disordered patients21. Early intervention in ED22. Pharmacotherapy of eating and weight disorders23. Conventional weight loss programs24. Bariatric surgeryCourse and Outcome25. Stage model of ED26. Outcome of Eating Disorders27. Outcome of Childhood ObesityPrevention28. Prevention of eating disorders and obesity
