An exceptionally practical book for clinicians who are interested in evaluating and treating eating disorders in children and adults, Pocket Guide for the Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders, provides expert guidance in a succinct and accessible format. Most people with eating disorders lack access to specialty services, leaving the majority undiagnosed and untreated. The editors and contributors, Stanford University researchers and clinicians, have written the book for nonspecialists in hopes that it will foster the development of relevant clinical skills and allow them to help patients with eating disorders in their practices. This book is squarely aimed at the big picture while highlighting the most important additional details. The first chapter provides an overview of all the major eating disorders and also includes a discussion of issues related to screening, race, culture, and gender that are cross-cutting and applicable to all the diagnostically themed chapters. Each of the remaining chapters focuses on a specific diagnostic group and is organized systematically to allow the reader to easily identify comparable elements across diagnostic groupings quickly.
Helpful features of the book include:
* Consistent chapter structure for ease of access. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction, followed by a key diagnostic checklist, diagnostic rule outs, risks and epidemiology, psychiatric and medical comorbidity, clinical presentations, evidence-based interventions, treatments illustrated, a clinical decision-making flow chart, common outcomes, resources and further readings, and references.
* Stand-alone chapters, allowing the user to access all the pertinent information without prerequisite preparation.
* Short narrative vignettes describing each of the major evidence-based interventions for each diagnostic grouping. These model effective practitioner-patient interactions and help readers improve their clinical skills. In addition, there are vignettes across the age spectrum, affording the reader valuable exposure to a full range of cases.
* Emphasis on evidence-based treatments. Evidential support is graded based on slightly modified criteria developed by the American Psychological Association, with Levels 1 to 4-from established treatments to those of questionable efficacy.
* Generous use of tables and figures, comprising all the major content in a concise, easily understandable fashion.
Authoritative, accessible, and designed to fit in a lab coat pocket, Pocket Guide for the Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders is a practical book which will help busy clinicians quickly find the most relevant and updated information, without overwhelming them with detail.
Industry Reviews
In this welcome volume Dr. James Lock, one of our foremost experts in adolescent eating disorders, and his Stanford colleagues offer a highly accessible summary and review of currently available evidence-based treatments for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders (ARFID), atypical eating disorders, and eating disorders in the context of obesity. Designed for a wide range of professionals likely to encounter eating disorders problems in children, adolescent and young adult patients, the diagnostic tips, treatment suggestions and informative clinical vignettes will help guide those new to these problems and serve as useful refreshers for more experienced clinicians.-Joel Yager, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Past President, Academy for Eating Disorders, Editor Emeritus, Eating Disorders ReviewThis new handbook by Lock et al. comprehensively covers assessment and treatment of eating disorders and includes the new DSM-5 diagnoses. It will serve as a superb reference for the novice as well as the advanced practitioner. The book is yet succinct and easy to read. Two thumbs up!-Guido Frank, M.D., FAED, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children's Hospital ColoradoWhy didn't someone write this book sooner? An expert, up-to-date and informed treatment of the literature, that will prepare non-specialist practitioners from diverse disciplines to help adolescents and adults affected by all subtypes of eating disorders. In touch with the needs of clinicians who work in diverse settings, this will be everyone's "go to reference on Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, Atypical Eating Disorders, and Eating Disorders in the context of Obesity. Easy-to-use guidelines for diagnostic and treatment decisions, user-friendly orientations to current evidence-based treatments, solid coverage of phenomenology and epidemiology, and informative case examples, all make this a gem of a reference.-Howard Steiger, Ph.D., Head, Eating Disorders Continuum, Douglas University Institute, Professor, Psychiatry Department, McGill University
