Multistep cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders

Book details Riccardo Dalle Grave, Jason Aronson, The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group Inc., Maryland, 2013, vii + 341 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7657-0927-1. In the last 10 years, a new form of cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders, called Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT-E) has been developed and tested by Christopher Fairburn and his colleagues at Oxford University. CBT-E derives from the ‘transdiagnostic’ theory of eating disorders [1], which developed out of the original cognitive behavioral theory of bulimia nervosa (CBT-BN; [2]). CBT-E represents a more potent, augmented form of CBT-BN which is able to be applied to all forms of eating disorder [1,3]. CBT-E has been evaluated empirically in outpatient populations in four randomized controlled trials [4-7] and in three community-based effectiveness trials [8-11]. CBT-E has also recently been evaluated in a randomized controlled trial of inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa [9,10]. The results of these trials have provided evidence that CBT-E is well accepted by patients, even those who are severely underweight, and is highly effective for patients with all forms of eating disorders in a range of clinical settings. This book describes the application of CBT-E to patients in different care settings requiring different levels of intensity of care (from out-patient to inpatient through to “intensive outpatient”). This approach, called Multistep Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders, has been developed and described by Dr Riccardo Dalle Grave for use in his own eating disorder treatment program at