CLP 4134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Family Therapy, Bulimia Nervosa, Homeostasis

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: CLP 4134
• Professor: David Janicke

Document Summary

Developmental process affected by maturation of child. Breast milk/formula: transitional period (4-6 months) 8 months spoon: modified adult period (1-2 years present) Parents must know that they are models for their children: attachment, successful parenting, tolerance and patients v permissiveness don"t allow kids to reject food. Characteristics: persistent eating of nonintrusive, nonfood substances over a period of at least 1 month, inappropriate for age, not culturally supported, if occurs outside another mental disorder, must be clinically significant. Prevalence: males = females, also occurs in pregnancy, unclear (10-33%, > with id. Treatment: behavioral strategies and environmental control, reinforcement of appropriate eating behavior. Characteristics: repeated regurgitation of food for at least 1 month. Re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spit out: not attributable to other disorders (mental or gi, weight loss common, malnutrition. Straining and arching back with head back, make sucking noise then spit: infants 3-12, may remit spontaneously. Risk factors: probs with relationships, stress.