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Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders

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This book provides the first comprehensive guide to enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E), the leading empirically supported treatment for eating disorders in adults. Written with the practitioner in mind, the book demonstrates how this transdiagnostic approach can be used with the full range of eating disorders seen in clinical practice. Christopher Fairburn and colleagues describe in detail how to tailor CBT-E to the needs of individual patients, and how to adapt it for patients who require hospitalization. Also addressed are frequently encountered co-occurring disorders and how to manage them. Reproducible appendices feature the Eating Disorder Examination interview and questionnaire.

CBT-E is recognized as a best practice for the treatment of adult eating disorders by the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

324 pages, Hardcover

Published April 21, 2008

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July 20, 2017
This is a must-read for any therapist working with clients with eating disorders. It provides a comprehensive overview of the range of eating disorders, their complications, associated features, as well as how to address these from a CBT modality. While I'm not a fan of the "pure CBT" approach to treatment in general, this is foundational knowledge required for the treatment of eating disorders from any therapeutic approach. Although the information is generally geared towards the treatment of adults, much of the information also applies to the treatment of adolescents (though, in this regard, I would have appreciated much more detail about the inclusion of parents in treatment--this text mostly skims over this).
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March 11, 2026
nie ocenię, bo męczyłam się przy niej sporo (musiałam zaznaczyć sobie wszystko, co może mi się przydać do magisterki) 😍😍☝🏻☝🏻 cała książka zajebana znacznikami i podkreśleniami
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168 reviews110 followers
July 2, 2023
Provides a very good, informative and practical guide for CBT E for eating disorders.

Worked well for me in clinic!
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March 13, 2026
3.8 El primero que leo del autor.
Bastante amplio y me agrada la visión transdiagnóstica. Me aclaró las dudas que tenía respecto al pesaje en sesión y el registro de comidas (suena contraintuitivo, pero tiene sentido). También entiendo el punto de "no meterse tanto al pasado"... pero creo que acertaron por las razones equivocadas. Estoy de acuerdo en que algunas condiciones como los TCA y otras conductas autodestructivas deben abordarse ANTES de meterse a trauma (porque evidentemente hay mucho en TCA), pero no porque no importe o no sea necesario o no deba verse (y lo dicen hasta el final, "bueno si quiere la persona podemos hablar del abuso sexual" lol), sino porque la primera fase para trauma complejo (y es evidente que es complejo por la alta comorbilidad que los autores confirman) debe ser la seguridad.
No le doy más estrellas porque siento que le hizo falta más experiencia vivida :) (y un poco hablar más de disociación, que seguro hay). Además, hay algunos libros clínicos que pueden leer los propios pacientes también, pero este siento que costaría trabajo dárselo al paciente de TCA. Y no por técnico, sino porque no suena TAN compasivo, solo explicativo.
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42 reviews
December 6, 2025
Yeme bozukluğu alanında çalışanlar için faydalı bir kaynak kitap ancak psikonet yayınlarının tüm çeviri kitaplarını gözden geçirmesi gerekiyor, türkçe çevirisi çok kötü.
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150 reviews
May 3, 2013
This book is extremely helpful. I treated my first eating disorder case using only this book and it went really well. Easy to read, understand, and follow, with lots of helpful examples for how to phrase things.
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