701 pg, hardcover, '09

This handbook offers the field's most comprehensive collection of assessment tools related to eating behaviors. Various experts provide reviews of all available measures specific to their chapter topics, which include body image, obesity, general personality, food intake, physical activity and more. Unique to this text is that numerous instruments are included as appendices, such as Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), quality of life measures, Anti-Fat Attitudes Test, Eating Disorders Diagnostic Scale, and many more.

CONTENTS:

1 – Assessment of General Personality and Psychopathology Among Persons with Eating and Weight-Related Concerns
1 – Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life in Obesity and Eating Disorders
2 – Methods for Measuring Attitudes About Obese People
3 – Assessment of Body Image
4 – Measures of Restrained Eating: Conceptual Evolution and Psychometric Update
5 – Measures of Physical Activity and Exercise
6 – Measuring Food Intake in Free-Living Populations: Focus on Obesity
7 – Measuring Food Intake, Hunger, Satiety, and Situation in the Laboratory
8 – Measuring Food Intake in Field Studies
9 – Binge Eating and Purging
10 – Assessment of Eating Disordered Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors
11 – Assessment of Eating and Weight-Related Problems in Children
12 – Assessment of Human Body Composition
13 – Measurement of Energy Expenditure

ABOUT THE EDITORS:

David B. Allison, PhD, is Professor of Biostatistics, Head of the Section on Statistical Genetics, and Director of the NIH-funded Clinical Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has authored over 300 publications and edited five books. He has won several awards and serves or has served, on the editorial boards of ten scientific publications including Behavior Genetics, International Journal of Eating Disorders, International Journal of Obesity, and Nutrition Today. Dr. Allison's research interests include obesity, quantitative genetics, clinical trials, and statistical and research methodology.

Monica L. Baskin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Associate Scientist in the UAB Center for Health Promotion and the UAB Clinical Nutrition Research Center. She obtained a B.S. in Psychology and Sociology from Emory University and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University. Her primary research interests involve behavioral interventions for the prevention and treatment of obesity, sickle cell disease, and minority health and health disparities. She is skilled in designing, implementing and evaluating theory-based and culturally-competent interventions.