Special Issue Watch: Eating Disorders and Trauma

Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention has a special issue out on eating disorders and trauma. Guest edited by John Levitt and Randy Sansone, the issue contains articles covering the intriguing but traditionally under-researched relationship between these two areas. Brewerton reviews the literature on PTSD and eating disorders, Waller and colleagues examine the links with emotional abuse and Claes and Vandereyken link trauma to self harm. Briere and Scott's article is a review of assessment instruments for trauma - this is a complex area and it's great to have this summary for those who are not trauma experts. In the treatment section of the issue, Levitt presents a model for working with those affected by complex issues of trauma, eating disorders and abuse, using self-regulation theory.