As body image research continues to expand, it can be difficult for clinicians and researchers to know how to choose the most appropriate measures to assess and treat patients. This handbook provides a comprehensive and well-organized catalogue of existing body image and related measures, detailing their descriptions, psychometric properties, and recommended applications, enabling readers to easily identify the most suitable tools for their studies or clinical work. It also offers guidance on adapting these measures for diverse cultural contexts, ensuring assessments are culturally relevant and sensitive. The book features step-by-step instructions on how to administer, score, and interpret each measure, with real-world examples that make it highly practical and accessible. With its focus on accuracy, cultural sensitivity, and ease of application, this handbook is invaluable for researchers, counselors, educators, and health professionals focused on body image.

‘This Handbook is an extremely useful resource for those needing reliable and valid measures that assess body image. The authors have ensured that all well-used body image scales, from a range of international authors, are included. All relevant aspects of each measure, including reliability, validity, and scale instructions and items, are covered within a well-structured format. The clear structure makes it easy to find the most important information about each measure. The extra index categorizes by body image keywords and is a big help to those wanting to choose an appropriate measure to assess a particular aspect of body image. I will be recommending this volume to all colleagues and students undertaking body image research. I commend the authors for producing this much-needed text.’

Sarah Grogan - Emeritus Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University, Author of Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children (4th Edition), 2021, London: Routledge

‘The description ‘instant classic’ is an overused sports cliche, you never hear it applied to a body image or eating disorders book. Regardless, The Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures is undeniably an instant classic. This unique collection of 130 measures is a thorough, well-organized, highly readable, and easy-to-use resource. If you teach or do research at a university or college that encourages undergraduate or graduate research in psychology, health education, dietetics, fashion and design, human development, or gender studies, encourage your library to purchase this. If you do research and/or teach courses in any aspect of the highly diverse body image field, you should also have your own copy. It is immediately useful, not only for veteran body image researchers, but also for students who are learning how to evaluate existing measures, construct new ones, and provide rigorous demonstrations or telling critiques of their validity.’

Michael P. Levine - Ph.D., FAED., Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Kenyon College, USA

‘The Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures is a tremendous contribution to the field! It provides 136 different scales that assess body image and related constructs, like eating behaviours, all in one place. This centralized resource will undoubtedly become invaluable to researchers now and into the future. By offering psychometric information and often the full scales themselves, I believe this handbook is poised to become the go-to measurement authority for everyone, from students to seasoned researchers, engaged in body image research.’

Elizabeth Daniels - Ph.D., Professor and Director, Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England