BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNDERSTANDING EATING DISORDERS

1. The Relationship Between Binge Eating and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
2. The Interplay Between Eating and Sleeping Behavior in Adolescence: Normative and Disordered Trajectories
3. Endocrinopathies of Eating Disorders
4. Skeletal Involvement in Eating Disorders
5. Suicidal Behavior in Eating Disorders
6. Mothers with Eating Disorders: The Environmental Factors Affecting Eating-Related Emotional Difficulties in Their Offspring
7. Giving ‘Til It Hurts’: Eating Disorders and Pathological Altruism
8. Women with Eating Disorders and a History of Sexual Abuse: An Integrative Treatment Approach
9. Interpersonal Maintaining Factors in Eating Disorder: Skill Sharing Interventions for Carers
10. Emotional First Aid in Eating Disorders: The Unique Role of Hotlines and Online Services
11. The Characteristics of Pro-Ana Community
12. Spiritual Self Starvation En-Route to Salvation
13. Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Among Jewish Women: The Role of Religious Orientation and Spiritual Well-Being

This book uniquely combines cutting-edge medical, psychological, and sociocultural topics pertinent to eating disorders. In the medical realm, the book focuses on Eating Disorders’ newly investigated associations with ADHD and sleep disorders, and on innovative treatments of osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa. Novel contributions in the psychological realm address families’ trans-generational transmission of Eating Disorders-related difficulties and novel internet-based treatments for such families. Lastly, in the sociocultural realm, the book discusses social contagion and Pro-Ana websites as increasing risk for disordered eating in young women around the globe.
This volume provides readers with more holistic perspectives of each realm and their interplay, to promote Eating Disorders’ understanding, treatment, prevention, and research. It provides various professionals including mental health providers, physicians, nutritionists, and graduate students in these professions.

Features
• Provides an integrative, holistic perspective combining the influences of medical, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of EDs
• Adds novel and at times controversial state-of-the-art perspectives to the mainstream study of EDs
• Integrates unique observations of EDs as a symptom of women’s distress in their struggle for role definition and identity transition

Authors
• Yael Latzer, DSC is the founder and director of the Eating Disorders Institute, Psychiatric Division at Rambam Medical Center, Haifa. She is a full professor, and the director of the Nutrition Behaviour and Health master program at the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
• Daniel Stein, MD is the director of the Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. He is a full professor (clinical) at the Department of Psychiatry and Head of the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.