D#10 HW# 2

Annotated Bibliography

Comparative Treatments for Eating Disorders. Ed. Katherine J. Miller, J. Scott Mizes. New York: Springer, 2000.

This book provides information on several different approaches to the treatment of a patient with longsuffering eating disorders. The book shows how different each treatment can be. At the end of this book there is a comprehensive summary. This is especially helpful because it gives comparisons on the treatments presented in previous chapters. This book also has multiple contributors. Almost all of the contributors work in the area of Psychology. Many of them teach and work for Universities. They also live all over the world. Some contributors are located in California, England, and even Italy. This tells me that the source is credible. Not only are the contributors highly knowledgeable in their professions, but they also come from around the world. This enables the book to have reliable and accurate information on a global scale. Since there is such a vast amount of information included in this book, I will definitely be using it in my research paper.

Treating Eating Disorders: Ethical, Legal and Personal Issues. Ed. Walter Vandereycken, Pierre
J.V. Beaumont. New York: New York UP, 1998.

Treating Eating Disorders goes into detail about the treatment of eating disorders. (Particularly anorexia.)It shows how treatments are controversial, always difficult, and usually protracted. This book depicts the reality that treatment is also often unsuccessful. There are many contributors which made this book possible. Most of the contributors are professors with vast backgrounds in psychology. A lot of these contributors have also been family therapists, psychotherapists, and have worked in eating disorder clinics. Their experience is important and beneficial because, anorexia has been proven to be a psychological disease. Each chapter not only states the title but also the contributors/authors. This book also addresses ethical considerations in the use of behavior modification programs in patients with anorexia. This part of the book is a historical perspective. It is very interesting, and kind of scary to read how invasive some of these treatments are. I will definitely use this book as a reference guide and source for my research paper.