chapter 9: Eating disorders Flashcards
List
Checklist for Anorexia Nervosa
4 points
- individual takes in too little nourishment (results in low body weight)
- individual is fear of gaining weight
- individual has distorted by perception, places inappropriate emphasis on weight in self judgment
- fails to appreciate serious implications of low weight
Define:
restricting- type anorexia nervosa
reducing weight by restricting intake of food
Define:
binge-eating/ purging-type anorexia nervosa
lose weight by forcing to vomit/ abusing laxatives/ diuretics
may engage in eating binges
Answer:
what percentage of anorexia cases are women/girls
75%
Answer:
what is the peak onset of Anorexia Nervosa
14-20 years
Answer:
what percent of all people in western countries develop Anorexia Nervosa?
0.6%
Fill in the blank
people suffering with anorexia nervosa are ____ times as likely to commit suicide as the general population
people suffering with anorexia nervosa are 5 times as likely to commit suicide
Answer:
What is amnorrhea
what causes it
the abscence of menstral cycles
anorexia nervosa
List:
medical problems related to anorexia nervosa
5 points
- lowered body temperature
- low blood pressure
- body swelling
- reduced bone mineral density
- slow heart rate
Answer:
Bulimia Nervosa is also known as
binge-purge syndrome
Define
Binge
uncontrollable overeating
List:
characteristics of bulimia nervosa
4 points
- repeated binge-eating episodes
- repeated performance of ill-advised compensatory behaviors
- symptoms take place at least weekly for a period of 3 months
- inappropriate influence of weight and shape on apprasial of oneself
Answer:
what percent of people develop bulimia nervosa
1%
answer:
on average how many calories do binge eater eat in one binge
2,000-3,400
Answer
what percent of girls/ women Experience body dissatisfaction
83%
Answer:
what percent of men/boys experience body dissatisfaction
74%
Choose:
people suffering from this disorder are more likely to have mood swings, become easily frustrated and have trouble coping effectively
Bulimia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Answer
what is the difference between binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa
binge eating disorder doesn’t involve purging
List:
checklist of binge eating disorder
9 points
- reccurent binge eating
- unusually fast eating
- absence of hunger
- Uncomfortable fullness
- secret eating (sense of shame)
- subsequent feelings of self-disgust, depression, or severe guilt
- significant distress
- binge eating take place weekly over course of 3 months
- absence of excessive compensatory behaviors
answer
What percentage of people develop binge eating disorder
2.8%
define:
multidimensional risk perspective
several key factors that together place a person at risk
for an eating disorder
Answer:
who is the “pioneer” of the study and treatment of eating disorders
Hilde Bruch
define:
Effective parents
Hilde bruch
parents who accurately attend to their child’s needs
biological and emotional
Define:
Ineffective parents
Hilde Bruch
parents who fail to appropriately attend to their child’s need
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How does ineffective parenting lead to eating disorders?
parents who incorrectly interpret child’s need leave the child unsure of how to fulfill their needs as they grow up
fill in the blank:
many people with an eating disorder misinterpret being anxious or upset as ____
many people with an eating disorder misinterpret being anxious or upset as hunger
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About how many people with an eating disorder also suffer depression
half
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if one identical twin has an anorexia what percentage of second twins develop anorexia nervosa?
70%
Answer
if a fraternal twin develops anorexia what percentage of second twins develop anorexia nervosa?
20%
Answer
if an identical twin develops bulimia nervosa what percentage of second twins develop bulimia?
23%
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if one fraternal twin develops bulimia what percentage of second twins devleop bulimia?
9%
List
disorders caused by brain circuit dysfunction that eating disorders have in common
3 points
- anxiety
- obsessive compulsive
- depression
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what part of the brain do biological theorists focus their explaination for eating disorders on
hypothalamus
define
enmeshed family pattern
family memebers are overinvolved and overconcerned with the details of eachothers lives
Answer:
What is the driving factor in Anorexia Nervosa?
Fear
of gaining weight
What is:
Clinical picture of Anorexia Nervosa
5 points
- key goal is becoming thin
- driving motivation is fear
- preoccupation with food occurs
- thinking is distroted
- low opinion of body shape
List:
potential psychological problems
7 points
- depression
- anxiety
- low self-esteem
- sleep disturbances
- substance abuse
- obsessive-compulsive patterns
- perfectionism
List:
potential medical problems of anorexia nervosa
8 points
- Amenorrhea
- lowered body temperature
- low BP
- body swelling
- reduced bone mineral density
- slow heart rate
- metabolic/electrolyte imbalances
- skin,nail, and hair problems
Answer:
What percent of college students report binge-eating or self induced vomititng
25-50%
List:
Checklist of binges
- episodes of uncontrollable eating
- 1-30 episodes per week 2,000-3,400 calories
- often carried out in secret
- preceded by great tension, releived by eating
- followed by extreme self-blame, shame, guilt depression and fear of weight gain
Define:
Compensatory behaviors
behaviors designed to counteract the effects of binge eating so weight gain doesn’t happen
List:
Examples of compensatory behaviors
3 points
- vomiting (purging)
- laxative
- diuretics (water pills)
List:
Similarities between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
6 points
- Distorted body perception
- fear of becoming obese
- preoccupation with food, weight, and apperance
- disturbed eating attitudes
- feelings of anxiety, depression, obsessiveness and perfectionism
- heightned risk of suicide attempts and fatalities
List:
Differences between bulimia and anorexia
what bulimia is characterized by that anorexia isnt
6 points
- more concern about pleasing others
- tend to be more sexually experienced (later age onset)
- mood swings, frustration, and boredom and impulsivity
- dental problems more likely
- amenorrhea less likely
Answer:
What is the single most powerful contributor to dieting and the development of eating disorders?
body dissatisfaction
define:
Body dissatisfaction
evaluating weight and shape negatively
List:
Characteristics of binge-eating episodes
5 points
- unusually fast eating
- absence of hunger
- Uncomfortable fullness
- secret eating due to sense of shame
- Subsequent feeling of self disgust, depression and severe guilt
list:
characteristics of binge-eating disorder
5 points
- reccurent binge eating episodes
- signficant distress
- binge eating episodes take place at least weekly over the course of 3 months
- abscense of excessive compensatory behaviors
List
Cognitive factors of eating disorders
2 points
- improper labeling of internal sensations
- little control over life
True or false
Antidepressant drugs sometimes help persons with eating disorders
True
Fill in the blank:
relatice of people with eating disorders are __ times more likely to develop eating disorders themselves
six
answer:
What does the lateral hypothalamus (LH) do
produces hunger
answer:
what does the Ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) do?
reduces hunger
answer:
weight set point
hypothalamus and chemicals such as GLP-1 work together
responsible for keeping an individual at particular weight
list
eating disorder treatment goals
2 points
- correct dangerous eating patterns
- address broader physcological and situational facors that have led to and maintain the eating problems
list:
treatments for anorexia nervosa
3 points
- regain lost weight
- recover from malnourishment
- eat normally again
List:
ways to restore weight and normal eating methods
5 points
- nutritional rehabilitation
- tube and intravenous feeding
- behvaioral weight-restoration approaches
- combination of supportive nursing care, nutritional counseling, high caloric diet
- motivational interviewing
list:
characteristics of cognitive-behavioral therapy
4 points
- identification of core pathology and alternative stress and problem solving strategies
- monitoring ties between feelings, hunger levels and food intake
- changing attitudes about weight and eating; need for indepence control mechanisms
- most successful when continued for at least a year beyond recovery and supplemented by other approaches
