This chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to eating disorders, including descriptions of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, other specified feeding or eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. The chapter also reviews information about known risk factors for eating disorders, common comorbid mental health disorders, and eating disorders in diverse groups. Finally, the chapter provides an overview of first-line treatments for eating disorders, as well as other available treatment approaches and the current evidence for these approaches, and discusses information about prognosis from eating disorders.
Authors
MacDonald DE; Solomon-Krakus S; McComb S; Trottier K