Eating Disorders: A Parents' Guide, Second edition

This new edition of Eating Disorders: A Parents' Guide is dedicated to clarifying the subject of eating disorders by combining an accessible introduction to the subject with practical advice.

Author: Rachel Bryant-Waugh, Bryan Lask
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/18/2013
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415501569

About the Author

Rachel Bryant-Waugh is Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Joint Head of the Feeding and Eating Disorders Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She obtained a DPhil from the University of Sussex investigating children with eating disorders, and trained as a clinical psychologist in London. She has specialized in feeding and eating difficulties in children for many years, has taught and published widely in this field and is an internationally respected expert. She is the recipient of the 2012 Academy for Eating Disorders Leadership Award for Clinical, Administrative or Educational Service.

Bryan Lask is Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of London, Honorary Consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Academic Director at the Ellern Mede Centre, London. He is Immediate Past-President of the Eating Disorders Research Society and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy for Eating Disorders.