Eating Disorders Flashcards
What are the symptoms of anorexia nervosa?
Loss of appetite as a result of nervous or mental causes, and is 10 times more prevalent in females than males. Perceive themselves as never being thin enough, and define their worth by their weight.
What are the various types of anorexia? Describe them.
- Restricting - during the last three months, individual has not engaged in recurrent episodes of binge eating or purging behavior. All fasting
- Binge/Purge - self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives. People with binge/purge anorexia will always be at least 15% below a healthy body weight.
What are the typical behaviors of those with anorexia?
- Cutting food into small pieces
- Exercising compulsively
- Going to bathroom right after meals
- Quickly eating large amounts of food
- Restricting amount of food eaten
- Using laxatives
What are the bodily symptoms of those with anorexia?
- Can’t think right, fear of gaining weight, sad and moody
- Thin and brittle hair
- Low blood pressure and slow heart rate
- Anemia and other blood problems
- Weak muscles, swollen joints, fractures
- Kidney failure, kidney stones
- Low potassium, magnesium and sodium in body fluids
What is bulimia?
Concurrent episodes of binge eating characterized by eating in a discrete period of time, an amount of food much larger than what people would eat normally (lack of control), then self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives follows. Generally of average weight.
What are the two types of bulimia? Describe them.
Purging - self-induced vomiting, laxative misuse
Non-purging - compensatory behaviors such as fasting or excessive exercising
What is the etiology of eating disorders?
There are multiple factors which contribute to this illness, including family history, genetic underpinnings, psychosocial stressors and sociocultural norms.
People need to have these symptoms for at least 3 months before being diagnosed.
What are the proposed psychological causes of eating disorders?
Low self-esteem, a sense of perfectionism and an overvaluation of shape/size.
What are some treatments for anorexia?
It’s crucial to hospitalize them right away, and get them to eat through a peg or tube in order to get them back to health. Then you could use behavior therapy and family therapy in order to decondition them and emphasize relationship of thoughts and feelings to behavior.
What’s the Maudsley model of family therapy?
It brings the entire family togethers and keeps them there. The family eats together, sleeps together, and is observed in order to identify family dynamics perpetuating this behavior.
What are the dangers of CBT?
These individuals have radically different views from anyone else, and when they’re treated like children they end up not respecting the treatment.
