Mindfulness and Eating Disorders across the Lifespan

<p>This important and well researched volume examines the clinical phenomenon of eating disorders, exploring their longitudinal risk trajectory and introducing the Mindful Emotion Regulation – Approach (MER-A) as a starting point for intervention.</p><p>The book reviews various eating problems that can originate from the earliest perinatal phase to early adolescence, and through the MER-A framework focuses on how the principles of mindfulness and the related theoretical and clinical bases underlying the construct of emotional regulation can guide the clinician to a deeper understanding of a patient’s disordered eating. Featuring reflections on clinical cases, it includes coverage of patients’ difficulties in regulating emotions, their relationships with various eating behaviours and their associated interpersonal features.</p><p>Mindfulness and Eating Disorders across the Lifespan represents an attempt to provide a complete appreciation of this complex and multifaceted topic, making it of great importance to psychotherapists and related mental health professionals working with eating disorders.</p> <p><em>List of illustrations</em>; <em>List of contributors</em>; <em>Acknowledgements</em>; <em>Foreword</em>; Introduction (<i>Gaia de Campora and Giulio Cesare Zavattini</i>); <strong>Part I: Regulation and nutrition</strong>; 1. From the prenatal phase to early adulthood: Risk factors and regulatory processes in the individual’s lifespan (<i>Gaia de Campora and Giulio Cesare Zavattini</i>); 2 Mindful Emotion Regulation – Approach (MER-A): A theoretical model for the treatment of eating disorders during development (<i>Gaia de Campora</i>); <strong>Part II: Assessment and treatment across the life course</strong>; 3. Overweight and obesity risk in the first three years of life (<i>Gaia de Campora and Giulio Cesare Zavattini</i>); 4. Infantile anorexia and Post-Traumatic Feeding Disorder in early infancy (Loredana Lucarelli); 5. Food refusal in preschool-age children (<i>Elena Trombini and Giancarlo Trombini</i>); 6. Food selectivity and pre-adolescence (<i>Anna Maria Delogu</i>); 7. Bulimia and adolescence (<i>Mojgan Khademi and Heidi Miller Brunetto</i>); <em>References</em>; <em>Index</em></p>