Introduction
Like all of psychiatry, current approaches to the classification of eating disorders are based on clinical descriptions of presenting symptoms (e.g., body weight, eating and weight-control behaviors, thoughts about eating, weight, and shape) without regard to underlying etiology (i.e., they are atheoretical). The two leading approaches to eating disorder classification – the Feeding and Eating Disorders chapter of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association 2013) and the Eating Disorders section of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision (ICD-10) – were developed based on expert consensus and empirical literature, with the goal of facilitating sound clinical practice. The DSM and ICD eating disorder categories have important strengths in that they can be diagnosed reliably across clinical and research settings, and have predictive validity with respect to...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References and Further Reading
Books
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
Striegel-Moore, R. H., Wonderlich, S. A., Walsh, B. T., & Mitchell, J. E. (Eds.). (2011). Developing an evidence-based classification of eating disorders: Scientific findings for DSM-5. Arlington: American Psychiatric Association.
Review
Keel, P. K., Brown, T. A., Holland, L. A., & Bodell, L. P. (2012). Empirical classification of eating disorders. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 8, 381–404.
References
Birgegard, A., Norring, C., & Clinton, D. (2012). DSM-IV versus DSM-5: Implementation of proposed DSM-5 criteria in a large naturalistic database. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 45, 353–361.
Brooks, S. J., Rask-Andersen, M., Benedict, C., & Schioth, H. B. (2012). A debate on current eating disorder diagnoses in light of neurobiological findings: Is it time for a spectrum model? BMC Psychiatry, 12, 76. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-12-76.
Grilo, C. M., Ivezaj, V., & White, M. A. (2015). Evaluation of the DSM-5 severity indicator for binge eating disorder in a clinical sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 71, 110–114.
Keel, P. K., Crosby, R. D., Hildebrandt, T. B., Haedt-Matt, A. A., & Gravener, J. A. (2013). Evaluating new severity dimensions in the DSM-5 for bulimic syndromes using mixture modeling. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 46, 108–118.
Machado, P. P., Goncalves, S., & Hoek, H. W. (2013). DSM-5 reduces the proportion of EDNOS cases: Evidence from community samples. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 46, 60–65.
Treasure, J., Stein, D., & Maguire, S. (2015). Has the time come for a staging model to map the course of eating disorders from high risk to severe enduring illness? An examination of the evidence. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 9, 173–184.
Uher, R., & Rutter, M. (2012). Classification of feeding and eating disorders: Review of evidence and proposals for ICD-11. World Psychiatry, 11, 80–92.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore
About this entry
Cite this entry
Wildes, J.E. (2015). Future Directions in Classification. In: Wade, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Feeding and Eating Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-087-2_41-1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-087-2_41-1
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Online ISBN: 978-981-287-087-2
eBook Packages: Springer Reference MedicineReference Module Medicine