CFD 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Underweight, Weight Loss, Bulimia Nervosa

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1010
• Professor: Frank R Peterson

Document Summary

Children who are underweight: adolescents with anorexia, or bulimia frequently have highly controlling parents. Adolescent eating disorders represent efforts to assert control of their lives: parents who are excessively critical &/or consider them to be overweight also a factor, also a link between parents" and adolescent"s eating disorders. Many adolescent girls with excessive weight-loss behaviors have mothers who model weight-loss behaviors. Or when parents have a lenient attitude toward substance abuse. Preventing adolescent drug use: adolescents need parents who. Do not present a model of drug abuse or dependency: other parental factors that prevent substance abuse include: Adolescent smoking: adolescents" avoidance of smoking have been linked to. Supportive parenting: these parents tend to engage their adolescent children in high- quality communication about smoking. Parental modeling of nonsmoking: also, adolescents whose parents allow them to smoke at home. Smoke more cigarettes per day and are more likely to become nicotine dependent.