This course is about eating disorders (EDs) such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders. In the course the following topics and questions are important:
What are the main characteristics of EDs?
Is a transdiagnostic approach of EDs useful?
Is there any overlap between EDs, depression, anxiety disorders, or alexithimia?
What are the consequences of ED?
Why are eating disorder patients mostly women?
What are the most important risk factors for eating disorders and is prevention possible?
What are the main results of prevention activities?
How can eating disorders be diagnosed and treated?
Which treatments are the most successful?
How many patients do recover and what are the main criteria for recovery of an eating disorder?
What do we know about co-morbidity?
Coordinator
Dr. Greta Noordenbos
Room 2B27
Tel: +31 (0)71 527 3965
E-Mail: <noordenbos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl>
Aim(s)
Students will become informed about the main characteristics, risk factors, explanations, treatments and prevention programs for eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa, Boulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders. They will be able to use a transdiagnostic approach for the diagnosis and the treatment of EDs.
Literature
Handbook of Eating Disorders.
More information will be mentioned in the program which will be available at Blackboard at the start of the course.
Examination
Weekly written assignments based on literature and paper about a special topic
From January 1, 2006 the Faculty of Social Sciences has instituted the Ephorus system to be used by instructors for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. Please see the Additional Rules and Regulations, section 6.
Requirement(s) for application or advice
Masterstudent in MSc. Psychology
Education method(s)
Seminars and workshop
Enrolment
Introduction and enrolment for courses of the first semester will take place August 27th 2009. Introduction and enrollment for courses of the second semester will take place in January 2010. More information will be available at the website of the Department of Psychology.
NB: Exam registration will take place via U-Twist, and will be open between a month and a week before the (re)exam. Students who don’t register, cannot participate in the exam.
Blackboard
Timetable
To be added.