PSYC 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Muscle Dysmorphia
11 Dec 2018
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Two main goals: correct dangerous eating patterns, address broader psychological and situational factors that led to, and maintain, the problem. Exposure and response prevention, help clients change maladaptive attitudes. Fear of becoming obese, drive to become thin: begin after dieting, preoccupation with food, not about maintaining healthy weight. Feelings of perfectionism: distorted body perception, heighted risk of suicide attempts anorexia nervosa an eating disorder in which a person, usually an adolescent female, maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight. Socially accepted prejudices against overweight people may add to the fear and preoccupation about weight, families play an important role in the development. Binging and purging: misusing laxatives, diuretics, or enemas, exercising excessively. Some men develop disorders as linked to the requirements and pressures of a job or sport. Some men exhibit a new kind of eating disorder - reverse anorexia nervosa or muscle dysmorphia. Substance abuse: obsessive compulsive patterns, perfectionism, body dysmorphic disorder.
