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The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders : Theory, Research, and Practice by Michael P Levine; Linda Smolak; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the first authored volume to offer a detailed, integrated analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders with theory, research, and practical experience from community and developmental psychology, public health, psychiatry, and dietetics. The book highlights connections between the prevention of eating problems and disorders and theory and research in the areas of prevention and health promotion; theoretical models of risk development and prevention (e.g., developmental psychopathology, social cognitive theory, feminist theory, ecological approaches); and related research on the prevention of smoking and alcohol use. It is the most comprehensive book available on the study of prevention programs, especially on those developed for children and adolescents. The authors review the spectrum of eating problems and disorders, the related risk and protective factors, the models that have guided prevention efforts to date, the literature on the studies of prevention including their target audience, outcome, and the models that shaped the program, and suggestions for curriculum and program development and evaluation. The book concludes with a new prevention program base

Who reads The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders : Theory, Research, and Practice?

Author

Michael P Levine; Linda Smolak; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805839258

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Health & Fitness