Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Children, Adolescents, and Adults

This book outlines a new cognitive-behavioral treatment for patients of all age groups with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.

Jennifer J. Thomas (Author), Kamryn T. Eddy (Author)

9781108401159, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2018

190 pages, 19 b/w illus. 16 tables
24.6 x 18.9 x 0.9 cm, 0.46 kg

'This book is important. For the first time we have a detailed yet comprehensive account of how to treat patients with 'avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder'. The authors are to be congratulated on producing this invaluable resource.' Christopher G. Fairburn, University of Oxford

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a common eating disorder diagnosis that describes children and adults who cannot meet their nutritional needs, typically because of sensory sensitivity, fear of adverse consequences and/or apparent lack of interest in eating or food. This book is the first of its kind to offer a specialist treatment, specifically for ARFID. Developed, refined and studied in response to this urgent clinical need, this book outlines a specialiZed cognitive-behavioral treatment: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (CBT-AR). This treatment is designed for patients across all age groups, supported by real-life case examples and tools to allow clinicians to apply this new treatment in their own clinical settings.

Dedication
List of figures
List of tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. What is ARFID?
2. Overview of existing treatments for feeding, eating, and anxiety disorders
3. Assessment of ARFID
4. Cognitive-behavioral model of ARFID
5. Overview of CBT-AR
6. Stage 1: Psychoeducation and early change
7. Stage 2: treatment planning
8. Stage 3: maintaining mechanisms in order of priority
9. Stage 4: relapse prevention
10. CBT-AR case examples
11. Conclusion and future directions
Appendix 1: CBT-AR competence ratings
Appendix 2: CBT-AR adherence: session-by-session ratings
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH]