Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders

<p>The number of eating disorders patients presenting with symptoms of self-harm is growing quickly, and yet there is surprisingly little known about this unique population.</p><p><em>Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders</em> explores the prevalent but largely uncharted relationship between self-injury behaviors and eating disorders symptoms. In the first major book to focus on this area, a renowned group of international scholars and practitioners addresses the subject from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. The book is categorized into sections covering epidemiology, psychodynamics, assessment, and a final section covering potential treatment options, including dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy, interventions strategies, group therapy, and pharmacological approaches.</p><p>This unrivaled collection of case studies, theoretical exploration, and practical application forms a benchmark for the field, and offers a stepping-stone for new research and innovative treatment strategies. In an area with little available information, previously spread out among diffuse sources, this volume represents the state-of-the-field resource for anyone working with complex eating disorders patients.</p> <p>Introduction. <em>Levitt, Sansone, Cohn,</em> Epidemiology. <em>Sansone, Levitt,</em> The Prevalence of Self-harm Behaviors Among Those with Eating Disorders. <em>Nasser,</em> Cross-cultural Issues and Self-harm Behavior. Psychodynamics. <em>Favaro, Ferrara, Santonastaso,</em> Impulsive and Compulsive Self-injurious Behavior and Eating Disorders. <em>Anderson, Bulik, Bulik,</em> Self-harm and Suicide Attempts in Bulimia Nervosa. <em>Sansone, Sansone, Levitt,</em> Borderline Personality Disorder: Self-harm and Eating Disorders. <em>Hartman McGilley,</em> Feminist Perspectives on Self-harm Behavior and Eating Disorders. Assessment. <em>Sansone, Sansone,</em> Assessment Tools: Eating Disorder Symptoms and Self-harm Behavior. <em>Juzwin,</em> The Self Injury Self-report Inventory. Treatment. <em>Sansone, Levitt, Sansone,</em> An Overview of Psychotherapy Strategies for the Management of Self Harm. Behavior. <em>Claes, Vandereycken, Vertommen,</em> Therapy Related Assessment of Self-harming Behaviors in Eating Disorder. Clients: A Case Illustration. <em>McCabe, Marcus,</em> Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Eating Disorder Patients with Self-harm Behavior. <em>Myers, Wonderlich, Norton, Crosby,</em> An Integrative Cognitive Therapy Approach to the Treatment of Multi-impulsive. Bulimia Nervosa.<em> Ostroff,</em> Eclectic Treatment of Eating Disorders and Self-injury: A Case Illustration. <em>Costin,</em> Interventions and Strategies for Families and Friends of the Self Harming Patient With an Eating Disorder. <em>Levitt,</em> A Self-regulatory Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders and Self-injury. <em>Levitt, Sansone,</em> Group Therapy for the Treatment of Self-destructive Behavior. <em>Sansone, Levitt, Sansone,</em> Psychotropic Medications, Self Harm Behavior, and Eating Disorders.</p>