Eating Disorder Awareness Week - 26th February to 3rd March 2024

Eating Disorders Awareness Week, run by the charity BEAT, takes place every year with the aim of educating the public and providing hope and support to those affected by eating disorders. This year, the focus is on ARFID – avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder – a largely unknown and misunderstood eating disorder.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

• A therapists guide to treating eating disorders in a social media age; Frisbie, Shauna; 2020 (W.W.Norton & Company, Inc).

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

• The clinical guide to fertility, motherhood, and eating disorders: from shame to self-acceptance; Daigle, Kate B; 2019 (Routledge).

• Re-thinking eating disorders: language, emotion, and the brain; Pearlman, Barbara; 2018 (Routledge).

• Nutrition counseling in the treatment of eating disorders; Herrin, Marcia; Larkin, Maria; 2013 (Brunner-Routledge); 2nd edition.

• Therapy for eating disorders: theory, research and practice; Gilbert, Sara; 2014 (SAGE); 3rd edition.

• Helping people with eating disorders: a clinical guide to assessment and treatment; Palmer, Robert L.; 2015; (Wiley Blackwell); 2nd edition.

• The time in between: a memoir of hunger and hope; Tucker, Nancy; 2016 (Icon Books) – part of our Patient Voices Collection.

JOURNALS   

• Journal of eating disorders; BioMed Central. [Available as an Open Access e-journal from 2013 onwards].
• Eating and weight disorders: studies on anorexia, bulimia and obesity; Editrice Kurtis/Springer. [Available as an Open Access e-journal from 1996 onwards].
• European eating disorders review (Online); Eating Disorders Association (Great Britain), issuing body; John Wiley & Sons. [Available as a Keele e-journal from 1996 onwards].
• International journal of eating disorders (Online); Academy for Eating Disorders; John Wiley & Sons. [Available as a Keele e-journal from 1981 onwards and NHS ejournal from 1981 onwards].
• Eating disorders (New York, N.Y: Online); Taylor & Francis Group. [Available as a Keele e-journal from 2006 onwards, and as NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with 1 year embargo].

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

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

• “Subtypes of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in children and adolescents: a latent class analysis;” Javier Sanchez-Cerezo; Josephine Neale; et al; EClinicalMedicine, 2024-02, Vol.68, p.102440. DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102440

• “Clinical characteristics, treatment course and outcome of adults treated for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) at a tertiary care eating disorders program;” MacDonald, Danielle E; Liebman, Rachel; Trottier, Kathryn; Journal of eating disorders, 2024-01, Vol.12 (1), p.15-15, Article 15. DOI: 10.1186/s40337-024-00973-6

• “A scoping review of psychological interventions and outcomes for avoidant and restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID);” Willmott, Emma; Dickinson, Rachel; et al; The International journal of eating disorders, 2024-01, Vol.57 (1), p.27-61. DOI: 10.1002/eat.24073

• “ARFID-Strategies for Dietary Management in Children;” Białek-Dratwa, Agnieszka ; Szymańska, Dorota; et al; Nutrients, 2022-04, Vol.14 (9), p.1739. DOI: 10.3390/nu14091739

• “When Is Patient Behavior Indicative of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Vs Reasonable Response to Digestive Disease?”; Fink, Margaret; Simons, Madison; et al; Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology, 2022-06, Vol.20 (6), p.1241-1250. DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2021.07.045

• “Pharmacotherapy for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in youth with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder: a case series of patients prescribed stimulant medication in a partial hospitalization program for eating disorders;” Finn, Daphna M; Menzel, Jessie E; et al; Journal of eating disorders, 2023-12, Vol.11 (1), p.226-226, Article 226. DOI: 10.1186/s40337-023-00954-1

• “What do we know about the epidemiology of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in children and adolescents? A systematic review of the literature;” Sanchez‐Cerezo, Javier; Nagularaj, Lidushi; et al; European eating disorders review, 2023-03, Vol.31 (2), p.226-246. DOI: 10.1002/erv.2964

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available to both Keele & NHS users.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

• NHS website:
• Eating disorder overview - https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/eating-disorders/overview/
• Eating disorder (advice for parents) - https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/eating-disorders/advice-for-parents/
• Charities:
• Beat - https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/
• Rethink - https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/about-mental-illness/learn-more-about-conditions/eating-disorders/
• Clinical Key – Patient Education Leaflets [Available to UHNM only]:
• Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_e3d2f6f1-585a-4ccb-9a8f-ed28bbd5707a
• Eating disorders - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_AAFP_eating-disorders_en
• Supporting someone with an eating disorder - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_fe5e5af6-f1db-4aac-8d8d-b131748df1b2
• Living with an eating disorder - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_576730d3-f9a2-440b-b9ad-3e489c43fd02

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