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Treating Obesity with Personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Written by leading experts in the field

  • Provides both theory and clinical experience

  • Illustrates how the new treatment programme develops a mind-set that promotes both weight loss and weight-loss maintenance

  • Explains how the treatment can be delivered within a stepped-care approach that can be applied, with appropriate adaptation, at three levels of care (outpatient, day-hospital and residential)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 1-12
  3. Treatment Overview

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 13-26
  4. Preparatory Phase

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 27-44
  5. Module 1: Monitoring Food Intake, Physical Activity and Body Weight

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 45-58
  6. Module 2: Changing Eating

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 59-74
  7. Module 3: Developing an Active Lifestyle

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 75-88
  8. Module 4: Addressing Obstacles to Weight Loss

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 89-115
  9. Module 5: Addressing Weight-Loss Dissatisfaction

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 117-142
  10. Module 6: Addressing the Obstacles to Weight Maintenance

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 143-161
  11. Involving Significant Others

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 163-168
  12. Adapting CBT-OB for Groups

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 169-175
  13. Adapting CBT-OB for Intensive Levels of Care

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 177-194
  14. Adaptating CBT-OB for Binge-Eating Disorder

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 195-210
  15. Combining CBT-OB with Weight-Loss Drugs and Bariatric Surgery

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 211-220
  16. CBT-OB and Digital Technology

    • Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi
    Pages 221-227
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 229-244

About this book

This book describes a novel therapy for obesity that associates the traditional procedures of weight-loss lifestyle modification with specific, individualized cognitive behavioral procedures to address some obstacles that have been indicated by recent research to influence weight loss and maintenance.

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity (CBT-OB) can be used to treat all classes of obesity, including patients with severe comorbidities and disability associated with obesity, who are not usually included in traditional weight-loss lifestyle modification treatments.

The book describes the treatment program in detail, and with numerous clinical vignettes. It also discusses involving significant others in the change process and adapting the CBT-OB for patients with severe obesity, binge-eating disorder, medical and psychiatric comorbidity, and treated with weight-loss drugs or bariatric surgery. Lastly, a chapter is dedicated to the use of digital technology with CBT-OB in order to help patients monitor their food intake and physical activity and to addressing obstacles in real time.

Thanks to the description of how to apply the latest, evidence-based CBT-OB to real world settings, this volume is a valuable useful tool for all specialists - endocrinologists, nutritionists, dietitians, psychologists, psychiatrists - who deal with obesity and eating disorders.


Reviews

“This is a comprehensive guide and reference for using CBT‐OB with individual patients. … By addressing their perspectives around these things and adopting a focus on long-term weight maintenance after healthy weight loss, patients can make lasting lifestyle changes. … the book provides helpful and thorough information on delivering CBT for obesity.” (Elizabeth M Waldron, Doody's Book Reviews, April, 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Garda (VR), Italy

    Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi

About the authors

Riccardo Dalle Grave MD is the Director of the Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital and of the master in treatment and prevention of obesity and eating disorders organized by the Italian Association of Eating and Weight Disorders (AIDAP). He is regularly invited to conduct public workshops on the nature and treatment of obesity and eating disorders in Italy, Europe, and the U.S. He supervises several units and clinical services in Europe, US, and Middle East, and teaches at several Italian schools of psychotherapy. He has published 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals included in PubMed, about 100 papers and 25 books in Italian, two books in the U.S., and several chapters in books on eating disorders and obesity. He is member of the editorial board of International Journal of Eating Disorders, European Eating Disorder Review and Eating and Weight Disorders, senior editor of the Journal of Eating Disorders and editor of the journal Emozioni e Cibo. He is fellow of Academy for Eating Disorder, past-president of AIDAP and past treasurer of Italian Society of Obesity (SIO).

Massimiliano Sartirana PsyD, is a psychologist and has extensive clinical experience in the treatment of eating disorders and obesity. He teaches in several Italian schools of psychotherapy, and co-authored two books in Italian

Marwan El Ghoch MD, is medical doctor specialized in clinical nutrition and has published 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journals included in PubMed

Simona Calugi, PhD is a psychologist with a master’s degree in bio-statistics and a PhD in medicine and public health. She has published 115 papers in international peer-reviewed journals included in PubMed, and co-authored two books in Italian.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Treating Obesity with Personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Authors: Riccardo Dalle Grave, Massimiliano Sartirana, Marwan El Ghoch, Simona Calugi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91497-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91496-1Published: 25 August 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08261-1Published: 09 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91497-8Published: 02 August 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 244

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Endocrinology, Behavioral Therapy, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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