The standard reference for practitioners, researchers, and students, this acclaimed work brings together internationally recognized experts from diverse mental health, medical, and allied health care disciplines. Contributors review established and emerging theories and findings; probe questions of culture, gender, health, and disorder; and present evidence-based assessment, treatment, and prevention approaches for the full range of body image concerns. Capturing the richness and complexity of the field in a readily accessible format, each of the 53 concise chapters concludes with an informative annotated bibliography.

New to This Edition

*Addresses the most urgent current questions in the field.

*Reflects significant advances in key areas: assessment, body image in boys and men, obesity, illness-related body image issues, and cross-cultural research.

*Conceptual Foundations section now incorporates evolutionary, genetic, and positive psychology perspectives.

*Increased coverage of prevention.

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Psychology

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Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing

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Psychology

Cover
Title
Copyright
About the Editors
Contributors
Preface
Contents
Part I - Conceptual Foundations
Part II - Developmental Perspectives and Influences
Part III - Body Image Assessment
Part IV - Individual and Cultural Diferences
Part V - Body Image Dysfunctions and Disorders
Part VI - Body Image Issues in Medical Contexts
Part VII - Changing the Body: Medical, Surgical, and Other Aproaches
Part VIII - Changing Body Images: Psychosocial Interventions for Treatment and Prevention
Part IX - Conclusions and Directions
Index
About the Publisher
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