Journal of Obesity & Eating Disorders

Peta Stapleton
Assistant Professor, Program Director Masters of Clinical Psychology School of Psychology, Bond University, Australia

Biography

Assistant Professor Peta Stapleton is a registered Clinical and Health Psychologist and is Program Director of the Masters of Clinical Psychology program at Bond University. Peta specialises in eating disorders, women's health and adolescent issues, and has served as President of the Eating Disorders Association of Queensland numerous times. She recently led a world first randomised clinical trial investigating Emotional Freedom Techniques against Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to treat food cravings in obese adults, and is now researching the application of EFT to eating, activity and resilience levels in overweight youth.

Research Interest

Eating disorders and disordered eating, obesity, Food cravings, Adolescent and women's health, Health psychology, Complementary and alternative medicine/integrative medicine (e.g. energy psychology), The link between physical illness and psychological factors