This chapter focuses on the eating disorders that draw the attention of most clinicians and researchers: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and eating disorders not otherwise specified. For information about other, less well-known eating problems in adolescents, and about the medical and nutritional effects of eating disorders in adolescents, see Lask and Bryant-Waugh (2000) and Fisher et al. (1995).
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Levine, M.P., Piran, N. (2005). Eating Disorders. In: Gullotta, T.P., Adams, G.R. (eds) Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23846-8_17
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