Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders

Charlynn Small, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Richmond in Virginia. She received her PhD at Howard University and is an advocate for eating disorders awareness. Mazella Fuller, PhD, is a psychiatric social worker at Duke University. She attended Smith College for social work in Northampton, Massachusetts and completed her clinical training at UMASS Amherst.

Part I. PERSPECTIVES AND POLITICS; Chapter 1: Eating Because We’re Hungry or Because Something’s Eating Us?; Chapter 2: Black Women "Showing Up" for Therapeutic Healing; Chapter 3: A Gap in the Research: Race-Specific Issues and Difficult Questions; Chapter 4: Food for Thought, Mind, and Body: Exploring Embodiment Techniques for Black Queer Women; Chapter 5: Social Desirability, Social Networking Sites, and Eating Disorders among African American Women; Chapter 6: The Skin I’m In: Stereotypes and Body Image Development in Women of Color; Part II. MEDICAL MANAGEMENT; Chapter 7: Father Hunger? Engaging Fathers in the Eating Disorder Recovery Process: A Developing Country’s Perspective; Chapter 8: An Integrative Approach to Understanding and Treating Disordered Eating in African American Women; Chapter 9: Treating Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome in Black Women with Eating Disorders; Chapter 10: Psychiatric Medications and the Treatment of Eating Disorders in African American Women; Part III. NUTRITION AND WEIGHT CONCERNS; Chapter 11: Cultural Competence: Considerations in the Treatment of African American Women with Eating Disorders; Chapter 12: Only a Dog Wants a Bone! The Other End of the Eating Spectrum: Overweight and Obesity; Part IV. TREATMENT APPROACHES AND PHILOSOPHIES; Chapter 13: Black Women’s Presence in Eating Disorders Treatment Facilities; Chapter 14: The Weight of Shame: Black Women and Binge Eating Disorder; Chapter 15: Food as a Drug: Mental Problem, Spiritual Solution; Chapter 16: Creative Training Approaches for Clinicians-in-Training Working with African American Women with Eating Disorders; Chapter 17: Bulimia: An Attempt to Solve Insoluble Problems; Part V. ADDRESSING SPECIAL POPULATIONS; Chapter 18: Disordered Eating Habits of a Black, Deaf Adolescent Female: A Case Study Applying a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approach to School Psychological Services; Chapter 19: Multidisciplinary Treatment Teams as Best Practice for Treating Eating Disorders and Body Image for College Students: Who Should Be at the Table?; Chapter 20: Evolution of the Fluffy Ideal in Jamaica