- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1 Eating Disorders
- 2 Overview of Exposure Therapy
- 3 Why Do People Get Better With Exposure Therapy?
- 4 Why Exposure for Eating Disorders?
- 5 How Well Does Exposure Therapy Work for Eating Disorders?
- 6 Functional Assessment of Eating Disorders and Their Maintenance
- 7 Explaining Exposure Therapy to Your Patients
- 8 Planning Exposure Therapy With Your Patients
- 9 Embarking on Exposure
- Part 3 Applying Exposure to Different Eating Disorder Problem Areas
- 10 Exposure to Food and Eating
- 11 Cue Exposure for Binge Eating
- 12 Weighing and Weight Exposure
- 13 Body Image Exposure
- 14 Emotion-Focused and Interpersonal Exposure
- 15 Novel Ways to Use Exposure for Eating Disorders
- Part 4 Important Considerations in the Delivery of Exposure
- 16 When to Use Cognitive Therapy Techniques to Enhance the Effects of Exposure
- 17 Involving Friends, Family, and Other Loved Ones
- 18 Addressing the Impact of Different Settings and Institutional Resistance
- 19 Dealing With Clinicians’ Fears About Using Exposure
- 20 Final Summary
- Appendix Exposure Therapy: How It Can Help You With Your Eating Disorder
- References
- Index
(p. 105) Applying Exposure to Different Eating Disorder Problem Areas
- Author(s):
Carolyn Black Becker
, Nicholas R. Farrell
, and Glenn Waller
Patients with eating disorders experience substantial fear of food and eating. Clinicians can use exposure to address the anxiety that underpins that fear. Specific foods are addressed, based on the nature of the fear associated with them. Sometimes patients avoid foods to reduce the fear that they will binge on them, while in other cases those foods are avoided due to the fear that eating them will result in uncontrollable weight gain. Weight status makes a difference here. Extremely low weight patients may need to gain weight before starting exposure, while other low weight patients can use exposure to help them gain weight. Non-underweight patients can use exposure to learn that their weight is not affected as they fear. Fears of specific foods or classes of food can be addressed using exposure, and this is a particularly useful approach when working with some manifestations of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.
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- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1 Eating Disorders
- 2 Overview of Exposure Therapy
- 3 Why Do People Get Better With Exposure Therapy?
- 4 Why Exposure for Eating Disorders?
- 5 How Well Does Exposure Therapy Work for Eating Disorders?
- 6 Functional Assessment of Eating Disorders and Their Maintenance
- 7 Explaining Exposure Therapy to Your Patients
- 8 Planning Exposure Therapy With Your Patients
- 9 Embarking on Exposure
- Part 3 Applying Exposure to Different Eating Disorder Problem Areas
- 10 Exposure to Food and Eating
- 11 Cue Exposure for Binge Eating
- 12 Weighing and Weight Exposure
- 13 Body Image Exposure
- 14 Emotion-Focused and Interpersonal Exposure
- 15 Novel Ways to Use Exposure for Eating Disorders
- Part 4 Important Considerations in the Delivery of Exposure
- 16 When to Use Cognitive Therapy Techniques to Enhance the Effects of Exposure
- 17 Involving Friends, Family, and Other Loved Ones
- 18 Addressing the Impact of Different Settings and Institutional Resistance
- 19 Dealing With Clinicians’ Fears About Using Exposure
- 20 Final Summary
- Appendix Exposure Therapy: How It Can Help You With Your Eating Disorder
- References
- Index