SOWK 2025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anorexia Nervosa, Eating Disorder, Psychopathology
19 Jan 2017
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60-70% of high school girls were dissatisfied with their bodies and wanted to lose weight. Higher social class has been strongly related to thinness/dieting. Anorexia views as md with individuals, family and possible cultural predisposing factors. Interaction between mounting concerns with shape and psychopathology (illness) An overrepresented in dance and modelling students (more competitive dance) Individual that must focus on slim body shape are at risk for an. Conceptualized an as weight phobia or desire to be thin. Palazzoli; maintain standards for attractiveness while assimilating the demands for success. Boskind-lodahl; striving to please others and validate their self-worth by controlling their looks. Bruch; uses the term to describe individuals with psych characteristics of an but no significant weight loss. Insufficient evidence to present whether an is extreme point on continuum or qualitatively distinct entity. Individual; personality characteristics, perceptual-conceptual disturbances & proclivity towards overweight or early maturity.
