Adapting Evidence-Based Eating Disorder Treatments for Novel Populations and Settings

This comprehensive text provides practical approaches to adapting empirically supported treatments for eating disorders for clinicians working with patients of diverse backgrounds and presentations, or within non-traditional treatment settings across levels of care.

Christina C. Tortolani, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Rhode Island College, adjunct faculty at Brown Medical School, and a licensed psychologist specializing in eating disorders. Andrea B. Goldschmidt, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor (Research) at Brown Medical School who conducts research on maladaptive eating and overweight/obesity across the lifespan. Daniel Le Grange, Ph.D., holds a distinguished professorship at the University of California, San Francisco, and is Director of the Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is also Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago.

PART I: Adapting Evidence-Based Treatments for Novel Populations: Chapter 1: Cultural Adaptations of Evidence-Based Treatments for Eating Disorders; Chapter 2: Modifying Treatments to Recognize the Pursuit of Muscularity, and Related Eating Psychopathology, Among Men; Chapter 3: Where is the Evidence of Evidence-Based Treatment for LGBTQIA+ Individuals Experiencing Eating Disorders?; Chapter 4: Utilizing Alternate Caregivers and Support Persons in Eating Disorder Treatment; Chapter 5: Implementing Eating Disorder Treatment Before and After Bariatric Surgery; Chapter 6: Evidence-Based-Treatments for Youth with Overweight/Obesity; Chapter 7: Adapting Evidenced-Based Therapies for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder; Chapter 8: Treating Eating-Related Problems in Non-Eating Disordered Populations; Chapter 9: Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in the Military Family; Chapter 10: Integrating Evidence-Based Treatments for Eating Disorder Patients with Comorbid PTSD and Trauma-Related Disorders; Chapter 11: Treating Eating Disorders in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period; Chapter 12: Tailoring Treatments to Middle-Aged and Older Adults; PART II: Applying Evidence-Based Treatments in Nontraditional Treatment Settings; Chapter 13: Delivering Evidence-Based Treatments for Eating Disorders in the Home-Based Setting; Chapter 14: Using Remote Methods to Deliver Evidence-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders; Chapter 15: Using FBT and Adjunctive Family Interventions in a Partial Hospitalization Program for Adolescents with Eating Disorders; Chapter 16: Ensuring Continuity of Family-Based Care across Levels of Treatment; Chapter 17: Primary Care-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders; Chapter 18: eHealth Interventions for Eating Disorders; Afterword: Novel Research, Training, and Supervision Opportunities for Evidence-Based Treatment Adaptations