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Chapter 8 - Exercise and Activity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2020

Jane Morris  and
Caz Nahman
Jane Morris
Affiliation:
Royal Cornhill Hospital
Caz Nahman
Affiliation:
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
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Summary

The focus of this chapter is on body image and how poor body image contributes to the development and maintenance of an eating disorder. The reader is introduced to formulation around this and some of the current evidence base.

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compulsive exerciseactivity
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New to Eating Disorders , pp. 55 - 61
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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References and Further Reading

Meyer, C., Taranis, L., Goodwin, H., & Haycraft, E. (2011) Review: Compulsive exercise and eating disorders. European Eating Disorders Review, 19(3): 174–89.Google ScholarPubMed
Plateau, C., Shanmugam, C., Duckham, R. et al. (2014) Use of the Compulsive Exercise Test with athletes: Norms and links with eating psychopathology. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 26(3): 287–301.Google Scholar
Shroff, H., Reba, L., Thornton, L. M. et al. (2006) Features associated with excessive exercise in women with eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39: 454–61.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Taranis, L., Meyer, C., Touyz, S., Arcelus, J., La Puma., M. (2011) Loughborough Eating Disorders Activity Programme ‘LEAP’. Individual Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Compulsive Exercise in the Eating Disorders: Therapist Manual. Loughborough: Loughborough University Centre for Research into Eating Disorders (LUCRED).Google Scholar
Taranis, L., Touyz, S., Meyer, C. et al. (2011) Disordered eating and exercise: Development and preliminary validation of the Compulsive Exercise Test (CET). European Eating Disorders Review, 19(3), 256–68.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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