Chapter 20 Eating Disorders

Question 1

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 1

life threatening eating disorder characterized by the clients restriction of nutritional intake necessary to maintain a minimally normal body weight, intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat.

Question 2

Binge eating

Answer 2

consuming a large amount of food in a discrete period of usually 2 hours or less

Question 3

Purging

Answer 3

involves compensatory behaviors designed to eliminate food by means of self induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, enemas, and diuretics

Question 4

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 4

eating disorder charaterized by recurrent episodes og binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors to avoid weight gain, such as purging, fasting, or excessively exercising

Question 5

Pica

Answer 5

persistent ingestion of non-food substances, paste,paper, dirt, etc

Question 6

Rumination

Answer 6

regurgitate, rechew, swallow, or spit out

Question 7

Orthorexia nervosa

Answer 7

is an obession with proper or healthful eating.

Question 8

Satiety

Question 9

Enmeshment

Answer 9

Body image

Question 10

Body image disturbance

Question 11

Alexithymia

Question 12

Self monitoring