Elizabeth Rieger is a Senior Lecturer, Clinical Psychologist and
Clinical Program Director in the Department of Psychology
at the Australian National University. In her research and
clinical work she specialises in eating disorders and obesity. The
instrument on motivation to change in anorexia nervosa that
she developed as part of her doctoral research (the Anorexia
Nervosa Stages of Change Questionnaire) has been translated
into six languages and is widely utilised by researchers and
clinicians in North America and Europe. She completed her
postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Eating and Weight
Disorders (University of California, San Diego and San Diego
State University), where she was trained in interpersonal
psychotherapy. She is a member of the Eating Disorders Research
Society and is currently the chief investigator for a study funded
by the NHMRC evaluating the effectiveness of motivational
enhancement therapy for obese adults. Elizabeth has more than
15 years’ experience as a Clinical Psychologist. Her clinical experience includes treating adults with eating disorders, medical patients with accompanying psychological problems and obese children and adults in public and private hospitals, university clinics and private practice. She has taught clinical skills to general practitioners, nurses, clinical psychologists, medical students and clinical psychology students. She has also taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in abnormal, clinical, and health psychology.
2011
McGraw-Hill Australia