324 pg, hardcover, ‘08

This book provides the first comprehensive guide to the practice of "enhanced" cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice. Christopher Fairburn and colleagues describe in detail how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for adolescents and patients who require hospitalization. Also addressed are frequently encountered co-occurring disorders and how to manage them. Reproducible appendices feature the Eating Disorder Examination interview and questionnaire.

"With his evidence-based, 'enhanced' treatment, Fairburn takes CBT to a new level. This book is written explicitly for clinicians, who will find the clearly written, practical guidance invaluable. Of particular interest are the authoritative description of the psychopathology of eating disorders and the lucid analysis of the management and treatment of underweight patients and those with multiple comorbidities. This is the definitive clinical account of CBT for eating disorders."
-G. Terence Wilson, PhD, Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

CONTENTS:

Introduction
1 – This Book and How to Use It
2 – Eating Disorders: The Transdiagnostic View and the Cognitive Behavioral Theory
3 – Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders (CBT-E): An Overview
4 – The Patients: Their Assessment, Preparation for Treatment and Medical Management

Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders: The Core Protocol
5 – Starting Well
6 – Achieving Early Change
7 – Taking Stock and Designing the Rest of Treatment
8 – Shape Concern, Shape Checking, Feeling Fat and Mindsets
9 – Dietary Restraint, Dietary Rules and Controlling Eating
10 – Events, Moods and Eating
11 – Underweight and Under-eating
12 – Ending Well

Adaptations of CBT-E
13 – Clinical Perfectionism, Core Low Self-Esteem and Interpersonal Problems
14 – CBT-E and the Younger Patient
15 – Inpatient, Day Patient and Two Forms of Outpatient CBT-E
16 – "Complex Cases" and Comorbidity

Postscript
Looking Forward
Appendix A. Eating Disorder Examination (16.0D)
Appendix B. Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q6.0),
Appendix C. Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA 3.0)