Women's Health Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 11-16, November 2004

Eating disorders: assessment and strategies

  • Simon G Gowers

      Affiliations

    • Simon G Gowers is Professor of Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Consultant to the Chester Eating Disorders Service. He trained at the University of London and subsequently worked as lecturer in the St George's Hospital Eating Disorders Service, London. His research interests include the treatment of eating disorders, including the role of the family.
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  • Bob Palmer

      Affiliations

    • Bob Palmer is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, and Consultant Psychiatrist in the Leicestershire Eating Disorders Service. He is the author of Helping people with eating disorders (Wiley, 2000).

Abstract 

Eating disorders are a significant public health problem especially for adolescent girls and young women, although they can occur in older women and men too. They are not truly new disorders although they have become more salient and probably more common over recent decades. The chapter describes the two main disorders – anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa – and their diagnosis and management.

Keywords:  teenagers and food , eating disorders , anorexia nervosa , bulimia nervosa , diagnosis

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PII: S1744-1870(06)00004-7

doi:10.1383/wohm.1.1.11.55417

Women's Health Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages 11-16, November 2004

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