Main description:

In a detailed analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders, this book highlights the connections between the prevention of eating problems and disorders, and theory and research in the areas of prevention and health promotion. It also looks at models of risk development and prevention, specific issues and challenges, the status of current prevention research, and lessons for prevention program development.

In this unique text Levine and Smolak draw on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including prevention science, developmental psychology, public health, and neuroscience, to provide a thorough review, history, and critique of the topic in light of a range of empirical studies. The only authored volume with a broad, detailed and integrated view of theories, research, and practice, this expanded, fully revised, and updated new edition features new chapters on dissonance-based approaches, public health, biopsychiatry and neuroscience, gender, culture(s), technology, obesity, protective factors, and ecological approaches.

The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders: Theories, Research, and Applications is essential reading for clinicians, academics, researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and activists and advocates involved in work pertaining to eating disorders, disordered eating, prevention, health promotion, body image, obesity and biopsychosocial perspectives.

Contents:

Preface

Part I: INTRODUCTION

Introduction to Prevention

Defining Eating Disorders

Research Methods and Statistical Issues in Prevention
Part II: GUIDES TO PREVENTION: MODELS AND RISK FACTORS

Developmental Psychopathology

Risk Factors as a Guides to Prevention Program Designs

Cognitive and Behavioral Models I - Social Cognitive, Cognitive-Behavioral,
and Mindfulness-Acceptance Approaches

Cognitive and Behavioral Models II -- Dissonance-based Approaches

The Public Health Model

The Feminist-Empowerment Model: A Critical Social Perspective

The Biopsychiatric/Neuroscience Model
Part III: GUIDES TO PREVENTION: SPECIFIC ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Gender

Culture

Media Literacy

Prevention, the Internet, and Other Forms of Technology

Obesity, Weight Stigma, and Health at Every Size

Protective Factors
Part IV; REVIEW OF PREVENTION RESEARCH

Prevention of Body Image Disturbances and Disordered Eating I: How We Got Here

Prevention of Body Image Disturbances and Disordered Eating II: A Review of the Research Post-2005
Part V: PREVENTION THEORY AND RESEARCH: LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

Program Development

Changing the Ecology

Deciding the Level of Prevention: Universal, Selective, or Targeted

Conclusions and Future Directions

Appendix

References