PSYCH 297R Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Anxiety Disorder, Eating Disorder, Natural Disaster
6 Dec 2020
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Chapter 12: preventing and recovering from eating disorders. Preventing an eating disorder is most often hindered by ignorance and an inability to admit there are issues. Ignorance comes from a lack of understanding the psychological needs of children and since most eating disorders are based in emotional traumas in childhood, it becomes urgent that parents attain this knowledge in some way. Positive because it can be faced, and responded to by a child with an adult for support and done so in a short period of time. If a child cannot handle this normal positive stress with adult support, then the child may suffer from a most severe anxiety disorder that requires immediate assessment by professionals. Tolerable stress includes more severe stress like the loss of someone they knew and loved, a difficult personal injury, or a natural disaster that puts the entire family into stress. Toxic stress is a very negative experience, especially for a child.
