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Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders

The book and its use

Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders is designed to be a practical guide and it has been written with the practising clinician in mind. It describes how to practice "enhanced" cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the latest version of the leading empirically-supported treatment for eating disorders. It describes the treatment in fine detail from the very beginning when one first meets the patient through to post-treatment review appointments, and it explains how the treatment may be adapted to suit particular patient subgroups and settings.


Reviews of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders

“From the most prominent group in the world studying the nature and treatment of eating disorders comes this cutting-edge treatment guide, which spans all eating disorder diagnoses as well as conditions that fall outside current diagnostic criteria. Based on a solid empirical foundation, the transdiagnostic enhanced CBT approach will immediately become the gold standard for the treatment of eating disorders.”

David H Barlow, PhD, ABPP,
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Boston University

“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.”

G Terence Wilson, PhD,
Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology, Rutgers

“Another milestone by the field’s foremost pioneer, this book explains how to treat eating disorders in exquisite detail, and does so with a rich theoretical and empirical foundation as its basis. This will be the authoritative volume for many years to come.”

Kelly D Brownell, PhD,
Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University

“Fairburn and his colleagues should be commended for bringing state-of-the-art research to state-of-the-art practice.”

Robert L Leahy, PhD,
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College



Contents of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders

INTRODUCTION

  1. This Book and How to Use It
    Christopher G Fairburn
  2. Eating Disorders: The Transdiagnostic View and the Cognitive Behavioral Theory
    Christopher G Fairburn
  3. Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders ("CBT-E"): An Overview
    Christopher G Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Roz Shafran
  4. The Patients: Their Assessment, Preparation for Treatment and Medical Management
    Christopher G Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Deborah Waller

    5. ENHANCED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY FOR EATING DISORDERS: THE CORE PROTOCOL

    Christopher G Fairburn, Zafra Cooper, Roz Shafran, Kristin Bohn, Deborah Hawker, Rebecca Murphy and Suzanne Straebler

  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

    13. ADAPTATIONS OF CBT-E

  13. Clinical Perfectionism, Core Low Self-esteem and Interpersonal Problems
    Christopher G Fairburn, Zafra Cooper, Roz Shafran, Kristin Bohn and Deborah Hawker
  14. Younger Patients
    Zafra Cooper and Anne Stewart
  15. Inpatient, Day Patient and Two Forms of Outpatient CBT-E
    Riccardo Dalle Grave, Kristin Bohn, Deborah Hawker and Christopher G Fairburn
  16. Complex Patients and Comorbidity
    Christopher G Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Deborah Waller

POSTSCRIPT

  • Looking Forward
  • Christopher G Fairburn

APPENDICES

  1. Eating Disorder Examination (16.0D)
    Christopher G Fairburn, Zafra Cooper and Marianne O'Connor
  2. Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q6.0)
    Christopher G Fairburn and Sarah Beglin
  3. Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA 3.0)
    Kristin Bohn and Christopher G Fairburn

CONTRIBUTORS

Sarah Beglin, DPhil, Dipl-Psych, Adult Eating Disorder Service, Cambridge & Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kristin Bohn, DPhil, Dipl-Psych, Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Holloway University of London, London, United Kingdom

Zafra Cooper, DPhil, DClinPsych, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, United Kingdom

Riccardo Dalle Grave, MD, Villa Garda Hospital Department of Eating and Weight Disorder, Garda (Verona), Italy

Christopher G Fairburn, DM, FMedSci, FRCPsych, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, United Kingdom

Deborah Hawker, PhD, DClinPsy, Psychological Health Services, InterHealth, London, United Kingdom

Rebecca Murphy, DClinPsych, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, United Kingdom

Marianne E O'Connor, BA, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, United Kingdom

Roz Shafran, PhD, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.

Suzanne Straebler, APRN-Psychiatry, MSN, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anne Stewart, MB BS, BSc, MRCPsych, Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, and Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, United Kingdom

Deborah Waller, MB, BChir, MRCGP, 19 Beaumont Street Medical Practice, Oxford, United Kingdom