This unique book provides a clear framework and a range of up-to-date tools for assessing patients with eating disorders. Procedural guidelines are illustrated with concrete examples and sample forms.

Reviews the literature on binge-eating disorder, covering diagnosis and epidemiology, clinical features and course, links to obesity, medical risks, and treatment data. This title provides an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment manual. It features more than 40 explained homework assignments and handouts, all in a large-size format.

Provides a framework and a range of tools for assessing patients with eating disorders. This book describes the nuts and bolts of using diagnostic interviews, standardized databases, structured instruments, self-report and family-based measures, medical and nutritional assessment, and strategies for evaluating body image disturbance.

The number of patients undergoing bariatric surgery has more than doubled in the last two years, and it is anticipated that approximately 100,000 such procedures will be performed around the world this year.