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Eating Disorders Flashcards

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When were eating disorders discovered?

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The discovery coincided with the general more from the religious to scientific sphere & adolescence

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What are some normative features of being female?

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Dieting, purging and bingeing

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Where are eating disorders rising?

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South East Asia and other highly industrialised but non-Western societies

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What could be some factors of a rise in eating disorders?

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  • Tensions between traditional and contemporary gender roles

- Media growth

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Explain some reasons why media influences have increased eating disorders?

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  • 25 separate studies; exposure of media portrayals of slender ideals led to body dissatisfaction
  • 200 girls; direct link between media exposure to the thin ideal and eating disorders
  • Female form depicted in fashion magazines become thinner and less curvaceous
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What percentage of the adult population have anorexia nervosa?

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1%

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What % of people effected by anorexia nervosa are women?

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95%

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How many people effected by anorexia nervosa die of starvation?

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5 - 15%

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How do you diagnose anorexia nervosa?

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  • Overvaluation of thinness
  • Reduction of food intake, avoidance of fatty foods, extensive exercise, self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse
  • Co-morbitiy with depression & personality disorders
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What is bulimia nervosa?

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  • Recurrent episodes of binge eating
  • Eating large quantities in a short period
  • Use of laxatives, vomiting
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What are some elements of bulimia nervosa?

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  • Binge eating occur twice a week, for 3 months

- Impulsivity, sexual maturity, lack of self-control

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What are some risk factors of eating disorders?

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  • Body image distortion and body dissatisfaction
  • Cognitive distortion
  • Low self-esteem
  • Depression, anxiety, personality disorder
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What are some cognitive factors of eating disorders?

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  • Core self-beliefs are negative
  • Eating behaviours are a form of dissociation or avoidance of underlying emotional distress channelled into weight concerns
  • Perfectionism/cognitive rigidity
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What are the cognitive features of binge eating?

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  1. Thoughts reflecting cognitive and emotional avoidance
  2. Negative believes about weight and shape
  3. Permissive thoughts
  4. Thoughts of no control
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What are people with eating disorders suggested to not be able to do?

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  • Have difficulties expressing their emotions
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How is anger said to have influenced eating disorders?

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As anger is threatening, it is directed away from the self, and directed onto the body, leading to extreme body dissatisfaction

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How is emotion said to play a role in eating disorders?

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Research suggested that suffers have difficulty in recognising their own and others emotional states

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Is there any research that suggest family could have an influence in eating disorders?

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  • Overprotectiveness and lack of conflict resolution and rigidity
  • Anorexic member of the family deflects attention from underlying family conflict
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Is there any research that suggest fathers could have an influence in eating disorders?

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  • More negative recollections of parental rearing behaviours
  • 3 core beliefs: abandonment, defectiveness/shame and vulnerability to harm - were found to mediate the influence of aspects of paternal rearing
  • Parental rearing behaviours were predicative of eating problems
  • Paternal rejection is importnat in eating disorders
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Are there any differences in gender of eating disorders?

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  • Self more attached to appearance for women
  • Femininity theory
  • Discrepancy theory
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What is the role of gender identity in eating disorders?

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  • Access to power through looks
  • Confusion & contradiction relating to female development and maturation
  • Conflicting roles and expectations that young women now face in a changing society
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What role does sex have in eating disorders?

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  • Childhood sexual abuse
  • Suppressing the adult female body
  • Abused anorexics are vulnerable to selectively processing material symbolically related to body image
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What can a starving body signify?

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A ‘non-body’ that symbolises complete control and a powerful subjectivity

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What does the disidentificationfrom the maternal body symbolise?

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Freedom from reproductive destiny rather than powerlessness

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What % of those with an eating disorder are not in treatment?

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90%

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What are some treatments for eating disorders?

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  • Takes place in hospital
  • Bulimia: anti-depresssant drugs
  • Anorexia: No drugs as of yet
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What are some psychological therapy for eating disorders?

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  • Anorexia: Family therapy
    Operant condition can lead to short-term weight gains
    Long term not yet achieved, but 70% do get better
  • Bulimia: Cognitive behaviour therapy: changing through process

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