ABSTRACT
This chapter provides useful information on the Body Image module, which is indicated for persons with overvaluation of shape, weight and their control, that is, judging their self-worth largely, or even exclusively, in terms of shape and weight and the ability to control them. This feature is behind many of the other psychological and behavioural expressions of eating disorders, from shape avoidance to feeling fat, and therefore needs to be overturned in most patients. As explained, the strategies that enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT-E) uses for addressing concerns about body image are drawing a self-evaluation system pie chart, creating an extended personal formulation, increasing the importance of other life domains and reducing the importance of shape, weight and their control by directly tackling the principal expressions of the overvaluation. The final goal is for the patient to develop a more functional self-evaluation scheme.
