Feeding and Eating Disorders

Question 1

Anorexia nervosa presents as…

Answer 1

a profound refusal to maintain a normal body weight at 85% of expected weight, excessive concern with and distorted body image, and failure to recognize that there is a problem

Question 2

A person who obsesses over the number of calories, the fat content, or how many minutes of exercise it will take to burn off a desperately desired cookie, most likely has…

Answer 2

anorexia nervosa

Question 3

Bulimia nervosa features…

Answer 3

episodic and recurring binge eating and purging of food to avoid weight gain

Question 4

Behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, misuses of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, or other medications to avoid weight gain are all hallmarks of __________

Answer 4

Bulimia nervosa

Question 5

Binge-eating disorder is a condition in which there are both recurrent episodes of __________ and ____________

Answer 5

excessive eating within a discrete period of time and a perceived sense of lack of control over the eating

Question 6

The difference between binge eating and bulimia nervosa is…

Answer 6

individuals with binge eating disorder do not engage in compensatory behaviors like purging or misuses of laxative and diet pills

Question 7

The most common treatment for anorexia nervosa is:

Answer 7

CBT

Question 8

PICA is described as…

Answer 8

perverted appetite for nonnutritive, nonfood substances such as clay, soil, laundry starch hair, chalk, crayons and ashes

Question 9

Rumination is…

Answer 9

the nonpurposive regurgitation of recently ingested food from the stomach to the mouth, where it is either rechewed, re-swallowed or expelled

Question 10

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder is typically seen in…

Answer 10

Children and adolescents