Obesity in Youth: Causes, Consequences, and Cures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433804271 ISBN 13: 9781433804274

Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn, 2009

Synopsis

In this thorough and incisive book, the editors have employed a group of researchers to describe trends and discuss their implications for the assessment, treatment, and prevention of obesity in youth.

About this title

About the Author:

Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD, is an associate professor of medicine for the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and director of behavioral services for the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. She previously served as clinical director of Healthy Kids/Healthy Weight, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary evaluation and intervention pediatric obesity program at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Heinberg coauthored the APA book Exacting Beauty: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment of Body Image Disturbance with J. Kevin Thompson and has published more than three dozen articles related to body image, eating disorders, and obesity. She has also served as a coinvestigator on six federally funded studies of obesity prevention and treatment or body image.

J. Kevin Thompson, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa. He has written, edited, or coedited five books on the topics of obesity, eating disorders, and body image: Body Image, Eating Disorders and Obesity: An Integrative Guide for Assessment and Treatment; Exacting Beauty: Theory, Assessment and Treatment of Body Image Disturbance; Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity in Youth (two editions); and The Muscular Ideal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1433804271
• ISBN 13: 9781433804274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243
• Editor: Heinberg Leslie J., Thompson J. Kevin