Eating disorders : understanding causes, controversies, and treatments / Justine J. Reel, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

VOLUME 1: Academy for Eating Disorders -- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy -- Adolescent Development -- Advocacy Groups -- Aerobics -- Aesthetic Sports -- Aging and Body Image -- Airbrushing -- Alexithymia -- Amenorrhea -- Anorexia Athletica -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Anxiety Disorders -- Art Therapy -- Assertiveness Training -- Assessment -- ATHENA -- Athletic Trainers -- Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder -- Ballet -- Bariatric Surgery -- Bigorexia -- Binge Eating Disorder -- Binge Eating Disorder Association -- Body Alienation -- Body Avoidance -- Body Checking -- Body Distortion -- Body Dysmorphic Disorder -- Body Esteem -- Body Image -- Body Image Globally -- Body Image in Males -- Body Mass Index -- Bodybuilding -- BodyWorks -- Books about Eating Disorders -- Bulimia Nervosa -- Carpenter, Karen -- Causes -- Celebrities and Eating Disorders -- Cheerleading -- Children and Adolescents -- Coaches -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Guided Self-Help Treatment -- Cognitive Dissonance Interventions -- Comorbidity -- Coping Skills -- Cosmetic Surgery and Eating Disorders -- Dancers -- Dehydration -- Dental Complications -- Depression -- Detox Diets and Cleanses -- Diabetes -- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- Diagnostic Interview -- Dialectical Behavior Therapy -- Diet Pills -- Dietary Restraint -- Disordered Eating -- Distance Running -- Diuretics -- Dolls -- Dove Campaign for Real Beauty -- Drill Team/Dance Team -- Drive for Muscularity -- Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified -- Eating Disorders Anonymous -- Edema -- Electrocardiogram -- Electrolyte Imbalance -- Emotional Eating -- Endurance Sports -- Energy Availability -- Equine Therapy -- Exercise -- Exercise Dependence -- Exposure Therapy -- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing -- Fad Diets -- Family Influences -- Family Therapy -- Fat Bias/Fat Discrimination -- Female Athlete Triad -- Femininity Ideals -- Figural Rating Scales -- Figure Skating -- Fiji Study -- Flight Attendants -- Food Addiction -- Food Allergies -- Food Desert -- Food Phobia -- Food Security -- Full of Ourselves -- Gastrointestinal Complications Associated with Eating Disorders -- Gender and Sex -- Gymnastics -- Hattou Shin Ideal -- Health at Every Size Approach -- Health Care Costs of Eating Disorders -- History of Eating Disorders -- Impulsivity -- Infertility -- Integrative Approaches -- Intellectual Disabilities and Body Image -- International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals -- Internet and Eating Disorders -- Intuitive Eating -- Intuitive Exercise -- Jockeys -- Journaling -- Ketoacidosis -- Lanugo -- Late Life and Late-Onset Eating Disorders -- Laxative Abuse -- Legislation on Eating Disorders -- Leptin -- Let's Move! -- Levels of Care -- Masculinity Ideals -- Maudsley Family Therapy -- Media -- Medical and Health Consequences -- Medications and Eating Disorders -- Menopause -- Military -- Mindfulness -- Models and Eating Disorders -- Mortality Rates -- Motivational Interviewing -- Movies and Eating Disorders -- Muscle Dysmorphia -- Myth of the "Freshman 15" --

VOLUME 2: National Eating Disorders Association -- Neurofeedback -- Nia -- Night Eating Syndrome -- Nutrition Treatment Approaches -- Nutritional Deficiencies -- Obesity -- Objectification Theory -- Obligatory Exercise -- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- Off the C.U.F.F. -- Oligomenorrhea -- Operation Beautiful -- Orthorexia Nervosa -- Osteoporosis -- Overeaters Anonymous -- Paleo Diet -- Parents -- Personality Characteristics -- Personality Disorders -- Physical Self-Perceptions -- Pica -- Picky Eating -- Planet Health -- Plus Size Models and Clothing -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Pregnancy -- Prevention -- Pro-Ana -- Prognosis -- Protective Factors -- Psychodrama -- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Approaches -- Puberty -- Purging -- Recovery -- Refeeding Syndrome -- Referring Someone for Eating Disorder Treatment -- Reflections -- Relapse -- Religion -- Residential Treatment -- Resiliency -- Risk Factors -- Rowing -- Rumination Disorder -- Selective Eating Disorder -- Self-Care -- Self-Help Interventions -- Self-Injury -- Self-Presentation Theory -- Ski Jumping -- Skin Tone -- Social Comparison Theory -- Social Contagion Theory -- Social Media and Eating Disorders -- Social Physique Anxiety -- Somatic Experiencing -- Sorority Women -- Sports -- Students Promoting Eating Disorder Awareness and Knowledge -- Substance Abuse -- Suicide -- Swimming and Synchronized Swimming -- Tanning Behaviors and Body Image -- Team Sports -- Teasing -- Television Programs and Eating Disorders -- Therapeutic Recreation -- Trauma -- Treatment -- Twelve-Step Programs -- Vegetarianism -- Virtual Reality -- Visceral Sensitivity -- Wannarexia -- Weight Class Sports -- Weight Manipulation -- Weight Pressures in Sport -- Weight Stigma -- Wrestling -- Yoga -- Zinc.

This encyclopedia offers resources for readers interested in learning more about eating disorders, including reference entries, interviews, scholarly debates, and case studies. It examines eating disorders as the forms they can take; their causes and potential complications; and how they can best be treated and prevented. It also examines the influence had by cultural factors such as the fashion industry, television and movies, and social media.