CBT-E is based on a transdiagnostic interpretation of eating disorders. According to the theory, as for bulimia nervosa, the overvaluation of eating, shape, weight, and their control is central to the maintenance of the main manifestations of the eating disorder

Other clinical features (e.g., strict dieting, excessive and compulsive exercising, binge eating, compensatory vomiting/laxative misuse, body checking and avoidance, and feeling fat) stem directly or indirectly from this core psychopathology, and, in turn, act to reinforce it

, is to focus on the processes acting to maintain the patients’ eating disorder psychopathology

There are two subtypes of AN: a restricting type and a binge-eating/purging type

purging or excessive physical activity

The very low prevalence in Africa, Latin America and among Hispanics/Latinos in the USA compared with the rates in Western countries, but also compared to at least some Asian countries, such as China and Japan were reported [13].

maintain minimally normal body weight

an eating disorder, occurring most frequently in adolescent girls, that involves persistent refusal of food, excessive fear of weight gain, refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight, disturbed perception of body image, and amenorrhea (absence of at least three menstrual periods).

an eating disorder, occurring most frequently in adolescent girls, that involves persistent refusal of food, excessive fear of weight gain, refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight , disturbed perception of body image, and amenorrhea (absence of at least three menstrual periods)

Addition of the new diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder to Section II