Assessment of Eating Disorders

Concise and practical yet comprehensive, this unique book provides a clear framework and a range of up-to-date tools for assessing patients with eating disorders. Leading clinicians and researchers describe the nuts and bolts of using diagnostic interviews, standardised databases, structured instruments, self-report and family-based measures, medical and nutritional assessment, a recently developed approach called "Ecological Momentary Assessment," and strategies for evaluating body image disturbance. Throughout, procedural guidelines are illustrated with concrete examples and sample forms, and a reproducible instrument (the Eating Disorder Questionnaire) is included.

The book concludes with an integrative discussion of how to use assessment results in evidence-based treatment planning.

Table of Contents

1. Diagnostic Issues, B. Timothy Walsh and Dana A. Satir
2. The Classification of Eating Disorders, Kathryn H. Gordon, Jill M. Denoma, and Thomas E. Joiner, Jr.
3. Conducting the Diagnostic Interview, Carol B. Peterson
4. A Standardized Database, James E. Mitchell
5. Structured Instruments, Carlos M. Grilo
6. Self-Report Measures, Carol B. Peterson and James E. Mitchell
7. Medical Assessment, Scott Crow and Susan Swigart
8. Nutritional Assessment, Cheryl L. Rock
9. Family Assessment, Daniel le Grange
10. Assessment of Body Image Disturbance, J. Kevin Thompson, Megan Roehrig, Guy Cafri, and Leslie J. Heinberg
11. Ecological Momentary Assessment, Scott G. Engel, Steve A. Wonderlich, and Ross D. Crosby
12. Treatment Planning, James E. Mitchell