Eating Disorders Awareness Week 28th February – 6th March 2022

 Eating disorders are devastating mental illnesses that affect 1 in 50 people in the UK.

Eating disorders include bulimia, binge eating disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED), and anorexia

Beat Eating Disorders are the UK’s eating disorder charity. Founded in 1989 as the Eating Disorders Association, our mission is to end the pain and suffering caused by eating disorders.

Recovery from eating disorders is possible, but we rely on our GPs to spot early warning signs that may have nothing to do with a person’s weight or appearance. On average GP’s get less than two hours in their entire medical degree. And a fifth of UK medical schools don’t provide any training on eating disorders at all.

Therefore, Beat Eating Disorder’s 2022 campaign is focused around campaigning for all UK medical schools and foundation programmes to introduce proper training on eating disorders. 

For more information surrounding eating disorders, please visit the Beat Eating Disorders and NHS websites:

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/eating-disorders/overview/

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of eating disorders and also supporting those who have been diagnosed with and are recovering from eating disorders, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

• A therapist's guide to treating eating disorders in a social media age / Frisbie, Shauna.; 2020 [New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.]

• Helping people with eating disorders : a clinical guide to assessment and treatment / Palmer, Robert L.; 2015 2^nd ed [Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.]

• Brave girl eating : the inspirational true story of one family's battle with anorexia / Brown, Harriet; 2013 [London : Piatkus]

• Getting better bite by bite : a survival kit for sufferers of bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorders / Schmidt, Ulrike, Treasure, Janet; Alexander, June; 2015 2^nd ed [London : Routledge]. E-book also available.

• Overcoming binge eating : the proven program to learn why you binge and how you can stop/ Fairburn, Christopher G.; 2013 2^nd ed [New York : The Guilford Press]

• Prevention and recovery from eating disorders in type 1 diabetes : injecting hope / Goebel-Fabbri, Ann; 2017 [New York, NY : Routledge]

• The clinical guide to fertility, motherhood, and eating disorders : from shame to self-acceptance / Daigle, Kate B; 2019 [Abingdon : Routledge]

• Re-thinking eating disorders : language, emotion, and the brain / Pearlman, Barbara; 2018 [London : Routledge]

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder : children, adolescents, and adults / Thomas, Jennifer J.; and Eddy, Kamryn: 2019 [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]

JOURNALS:

• Eating and Weight Disorders / Heidelberg: Springer Nature B.V. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 1997 onwards with 1 year embargo].

• Eating disorders / New York : Taylor & Francis Group. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with 15 month embargo].

• European eating disorders review / Chichester, West Sussex, England : John Wiley & Sons : Eating Disorders Association. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1996 onwards.]

• International Journal of Eating Disorders / Wiley & Sons, Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1981 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 1981 onwards with 1 year embargo].

• Eating behaviors / Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Science. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2000 onwards.]

• Journal of eating disorders / London : BioMed Central. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2013 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Borden, Ashlye; Cook-Cottone, Catherine; “Yoga and eating disorder prevention and treatment: A comprehensive review and meta-analysis”, Eating Disorders, 2020, Vol. 28 Pt. 4, pp.400-437. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Fernández‐Aranda, Fernando ; Casas, Miquel ; Claes, Laurence ; Bryan, Danielle Clark et al; “COVID‐19 and implications for eating disorders”, European eating disorders review, 2020, Vol.28 Pt.3, pp.239-245. [Available via Keele ejournals]

• Castellini, Giovanni ; Cassioli, Emanuele ; Rossi, Eleonora ; Innocenti, Matteo et al; “The impact of COVID‐19 epidemic on eating disorders: A longitudinal observation of pre versus post psychopathological features in a sample of patients with eating disorders and a group of healthy controls”, The International journal of eating disorders, 2020, Vol.53 Pt.11, pp.1855-1862. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Vaughn, Allison A; Lowe, Joshua D; “With age comes responsibility: changes in stigma for boys/men with bulimia nervosa”, Eating and Weight Disorders, 2020, Vol. 25, Pt. 6 pp. 1525-1532. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Hannah Webb, Bethan Dalton, Madeleine Irish, Daniela Mercado, Catherine McCombie et al; “Clinicians’ perspectives on supporting individuals with severe anorexia nervosa in specialist eating disorder intensive treatment settings”, Journal of Eating Disorders,  2022, Vol. 10 Pt.1, Article 3. doi: 10.1186/s40337-021-00528-z. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Levinson, Cheri A ; Christian, Caroline ; Ram, Shruti Shankar et al; “Eating disorder symptoms and core eating disorder fears decrease during online imaginal exposure therapy for eating disorders”, Journal of affective disorders, 2020, Vol.276, pp.585-591. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

PATIENT INFORMARION / PATIENT ADVICE:

• NHS Website
• Eating disorders (Overview) https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/eating-disorders/overview/
• Advice for parents - eating disorders https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/eating-disorders/advice-for-parents/w
• Anorexia nervosa https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/anorexia/
• Bulimia https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/bulimia/
• Binge eating disorder https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/binge-eating/

• NHS Inform – Eating disorders https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-health/eating-disorders/

• Beat Eating Disorders – Downloads and resources page https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-information-and-support/get-help-for-myself/downloads-resources/

• Patient Info – Types of eating disorder https://patient.info/mental-health/eating-disorders/types-of-eating-disorder

• Health Talk – Eating disorders (Young People) https://healthtalk.org/eating-disorders/overview

• Mind – Eating problems https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/eating-problems/about-eating-problems/
• Useful contacts https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/eating-problems/useful-contacts/

• Clinical Key [available to UHNM only]
• Eating Disorders [patient education page] https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_40dc1ee8-1dce-4aad-9c31-6fdc133efc5b
• Living with a eating disorder [patient education page] https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_576730d3-f9a2-440b-b9ad-3e489c43fd02
• There are also pages covering bulimia, binge eating disorder and anorexia

• Anorexia & Bulimia Care https://www.anorexiabulimiacare.org.uk/about/research

• National Centre for eating disorders – Eating disorders information https://eating-disorders.org.uk/information/

• Mental Health UK – Eating disorders: useful contacts https://mentalhealth-uk.org/help-and-information/conditions/eating-disorders/more-information/

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