Recovery from disordered eating: sufferers' and clinicians' perspectives.

Objective: Disagreement exists on how to define recovery from eating disorders. Definitions typically include a combination of physical, cognitive, emotional, psychological and social factors. However, none provides multidimensional recovery models, addressing and comparing sufferers' and clinicians' viewpoints.

Do schema processes mediate links between parenting and eating pathology?

Objective: Adverse parenting experiences are commonly linked to eating pathology. A schema-based model of the development and maintenance of eating pathology proposes that one of the potential mediators of the link between parenting and eating pathology might be the development of schema maintenance processes--mechanisms that operate to help the individual avoid intolerable emotions.

Method: To test this hypothesis, 353 female students and 124 female eating-disordered clients were recruited.

Ethnic origins of patients attending specialist eating disorders services in a multiethnic urban catchment area in the United Kingdom.

Objective: This study considered the impact of ethnicity on the referral process for patients with eating disorders, at the levels of referral rate, diagnosis, and treatment offered.

Method: A catchment area cohort of 648 patients was referred and assessed at specialist eating disorders services in a multiethnic urban area (all boroughs in South London, UK). Each patient was diagnosed and offered treatment (or an alternative appropriate end-point to the referral), and self-identified their ethnicity.

Emotional awareness and core beliefs among women with eating disorders.

Patients with eating disorders have been shown to experience the emotional components of alexithymia-difficulties in identifying and describing emotions. In keeping with cognitive theories, which stress the role of schema-level beliefs in understanding emotions, this study examined the core beliefs that are associated with this difficulty in women with eating disorders. Seventy eating-disordered women completed standardised measures of core beliefs and alexithymia.

Is comorbidity in the eating disorders related to perceptions of parenting? Criterion validity of the revised Young Parenting Inventory.

Background: Recent studies support the reliability and validity of the Young Parenting Inventory-Revised (YPI-R) and its use in investigating the role of parenting in the aetiology and maintenance of eating pathology. However, criterion validity has yet to be fully established. To investigate one aspect of criterion validity, this study examines the association between parenting and comorbid problems in the eating disorders (including general psychopathology and impulsivity).

Social anxiety and agoraphobia in the eating disorders: associations with core beliefs.

The eating disorders have a high comorbidity with anxiety disorders, but it is not clear what cognitions underpin those anxiety symptoms. The present study investigated whether social anxiety and agoraphobia in eating-disordered individuals are associated with different types of unconditional core beliefs. The participants were 70 women meeting DSM-IV criteria for an eating disorder.

Family functioning in anorexia nervosa: British and Italian mothers' perceptions.

This study tested the hypothesis that cultural differences would influence individuals' perceptions of family functioning. Mothers of British and Italian children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa completed the Family Assessment Device (FAD). British mothers perceived their families' communication and role definition as less healthy than did the Italian mothers.