BINGE EATING
Nature, Assessment, and Treatment
Christopher G. Fairburn & G. Terence Wilson (Eds.)
Guilford Publications, 1996
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand what is known about binge eating and how to assess it
•Learn about the treatment of this complex behavior
•Learn characteristics of purgers using the dieting-purging subtyping system
• Learn whether obese binge eaters exhibit purge behavior
• Learn what individuals with bulimia nervosa do when not binge eating
• Learn what most frequently triggers binge episodes
• Learn the critical maintaining factors for binge eating
• Learn the effectiveness of fluoxitine hydrochloride in treating bulimia
• Understand the three stages of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ITP) identification
• Understand the factors for using the cognitive behavioral therapy with binge eating clients
• Assess the two key behavioral aspects of eating disorders using the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE)
Christopher G. Fairburn, D.M., FRCPsych, is Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer and Honorary Clinical Reader in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. The author of OVERCOMING BINGE EATING, he is a well-known international authority on eating disorders, with research programs in Britain and the United States.
G. Terence Wilson, Ph.D., is the Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University and a practicing clinical psychologist. He has coauthored a number of books and published numerous papers on the treatment of obesity and eating disorders. He served as a member of the American Psychiatric Association's Work Group that developed the diagnostic criteria for eating disorders in DSM-IV.
12 CE credits; 419 pages
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