Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Pediatric Obesity

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-65

  Hebebrand, Johannes ^a   Herpertz Dahlmann, Beate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; Eating disorders; Quality of life; Self awareness; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BULLYING; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIET; EATING DISORDER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; OBESITY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; TEASING; WEIGHT GAIN; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EATING DISORDERS; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 55949089517     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2008.08.002     Document Type: Review

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