Addressing Motivation in Globesity Treatment: A New Challenge for Clinical Psychology

The global epidemic of obesity and being (Globesity) is rapidly becoming major public health problem in many of the world, since it is often associated many related chronic diseases(Wadden et al., 2002) including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, failure, osteoarthritis as well psychological problems such as depression, of shame, low self-esteem, stigma (Byrne et al., 2004; Riva et al.,2006a; Manzoni et al., 2008; Villa et al.,2009; Capodaglio et al., 2010). Obesity and overweight are also frequently connected Binge Eating Disorder (BED), psychopathological disorder characterized frequent and persistent episodes of binge characterized by loss of control over within a discrete period of time, and distress.