Eating Disorders

Question 1

What’s the historical perspective of eating disorders?

Answer 1

• claims of dying from a broken heart (likely an eating disorder acquired due to grief?)
• religious orders on diet of bread and water then possibly giving up the bread

Question 2

What’s the cross-cultural perspective of eating disorders?

Answer 2

• society’s views on body image
• controversial theory that not eating would serve as an advantage to surviving in famine, reason for the genes being passed on
• Fiji before and after tv, as they became more westernised females attitudes to body shape and size became more dissatisfied

Question 3

What are the different types of disorders?

Answer 3

• anorexia nervosa
• bulimia nervosa
• other specified feeding and eating disorder
• binge eating disorder
• orthorexia
• obesity

Question 4

What are the five Ps in forming a disorder?

Answer 4

• predisposing (risk factors that create vulnerability)
• precipitating (something that triggers the disorder to manifest it) (e.g. genetic profile)
• presenting (clear description of the presenting problems)
• perpetuating (what’s maintaining the difficulty)
• protective (strengths the person need to overcome the difficulty)

Question 5

What is the bio-psycho-social model?

Answer 5

• cascading model (each level has to be in place for the manifest disorder to appear)
• starts with precipitating factors that lead to a disorder
• ends with perpetuating factors

Question 6

What are the treatments for eating disorders?

Answer 6

• food (weight restoration treatment) (has side effect of making them feel guilty etc that requires psychological treatment)
• family-based interventions
• CBT-ED