Prevention and Recovery from Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes

Ann Goebel-Fabbri worked for 16 years as a clinical psychologist and researcher in the Behavioral and Mental Health Unit at Joslin Diabetes Center. She is a former assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. During her time at Joslin, her work involved teaching, research, and treatment focused on disordered eating behaviors in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It covered the spectrum of eating problems from food and insulin restriction to binge eating and obesity. Dr. Goebel-Fabbri’s work is published in numerous research papers and academic book chapters, and she regularly speaks at professional conferences. She currently runs her own practice in which she treats individual patients and also consults with healthcare teams and organizations to help them in their work with diabetes patients with and without eating disorders. She teaches health professionals about psychosocial aspects of diabetes, especially eating disorders and behavioral weight management. Her clinical and research activities have been featured in the popular media, including BBC Radio, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, the Huffington Post, CNN, and the New York Times.

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Foreword by Barbara J. Anderson

Foreword by Kamryn T. Eddy and Jennifer J. Thomas

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 What We Know So Far About Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes

2 Learning From the Experts

3 Ideas About Risk and Prevention

4 What Did and Didn’t Help

5 Motivators and Challenges to Recovery

6 The Treatment and Recovery Process

7 The Gifts of Recovery

8 Lingering Symptoms and Diabetes Complications

9 Advice for Those Still Struggling

10 Practical Applications of Expert Teaching

11 Realistic Hope

Appendix: Helpful Resources

References

Index