Read the article by Wilson et. al. on the behavioral approaches to the treatment of eating disorders. Choose an eating disorder that is reviewed in this article and in the text. Review the proposed physiological and behavioral mechanisms of this...…
The Flexner Reports’ importance and it’s implication on today’s medical schools cannot be understated. Prior to the report being completed and released, many medical schools had little in common with one another and did not provide the adequate training needed to produce well rounded and educated doctors. After the report was released in 1910, it took only until the 1920’s for major reform to occur. This new curriculum and its basic core are being used in today’s schools of medicine.…
Memory is an important dimension to learning, which involves the process of encoding information either visually, acoustically or semantically. Piaget viewed the processes of accommodation, assimilation and equilibrium as essential for children’s cognitive development. The ability for one to improve on their learning can be achieved through their ‘meta cognition’. This involves the learner having an awareness of their prior knowledge, and putting further plans in place to build upon this knowledge.…
Our text provides us with the following predisposing factors for developing an eating disorder. Mash & Wolfe (2014)…
Clearly, a person must first be willing to admit there is a problem with their eating habits, and that person must be willing to enter treatment. Once this is accomplished, the first priority in treating eating disorders, is ensuring that the patient recovers to a healthy weight (Hartung & Stevens), this can limit the physiological issues that are caused by being underweight. The next steps can often be the most difficult, which is dealing with the mental issues and helping the patient to recover healthy self-worth and self-image. The next step of treatment, once low weight is not causing imminent danger, is psychological treatment of the disease. The evidence based treatment, is the case of all three eating disorders is, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which addresses the fact that the woman with the disease is over-evaluating herself based on body weight and shape (Wilson, Grilo & Vitousek, 201). When treating any person with a mental disorder, it is important to help him or her to think in a healthy way, and to ensure that it will continue far in to the future. If only the physical symptoms of the disease are treated, the person will relapse soon after leaving treatment for the disorder. While these treatments work for many patients, helping to improve quality of life, there are still patients which have relapse of eating disorder symptoms. More treatment…
The authors have decided to use the “Questionnaire for Eating Disorder Diagnosis” (Greenleaf, Petrie, Carter, and Reel, 2009, p490) feeling it gives more precise results than other questionnaires. The survey will use approximately two hundred female student athletes who participate in collegiate team or individual sports, from the southern region of America. Several questions pertaining to weight management, and certain types of eating miscues female student athletes may or may not practice daily, due to self dissatisfaction with their physical…
The time period of 1970 to 2000 shows a growing acknowledgement in a multitude of various ranges of study of the intricate issues associated with eating disorders (Casilli, Tubaro, & Araya, 2012). Although, consultation between fields of specialization is minimal and scarce (Casilli, Tubaro, & Araya, 2012). While inclusive studies narrating many factors such as environmental, biological, and behaviour are absent (Casilli, Tubaro, & Araya, 2012). The field of studies which have molded the understandings surrounding eating disorders are clinical psychology and psychiatry (Casilli, Tubaro, & Araya, 2012). A highly controversial issue is whether to interpret anorexia as a disease or as a lifestyle (Casilli, Tubaro,…
The alcohol prohibition in 1920 was a government effort to stop the manufacturing, distribution, and consumption of alcohol. To say the least, the prohibition only made matters worse causing the consumption of alcohol to increase significantly. The addictive properties of alcohol forced citizens into find alternate and dangerous routes to getting their fix. After the defeat of prohibition, one would believe the government would learn from their mistakes. However, the 1950’s proved differently when the president of the United States, Richard Nixon, declared the unprecedented campaign, the war on drugs.…
For the fourteenth annual Turkey Day, the Gill St. Bernard's community donated an astounding four hundred fifty-three turkeys! With participation from all of the school divisions and faculty, Turkey Day not only provided New Jersey families with turkeys but also brought the GSB community together through helping others.…
Bibliography: Brooks, S. J. (n.d.). A Debate on Current Eating Disorder Diagnoses in Light of Neurobiological Findings. Medscape Log In. Retrieved April 22, 2013, from http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/774938…
“The Academy for Eating Disorders noted that EDs are biologically based, serious mental illnesses and advocated this position based on an emerging science that affirms with a reasonable degree of medical and scientific certainty that eating disorders are significantly heritable; influenced by alterations of brain function; significantly impair cognitive function, judgement, and emotional stability; and restrict the life activities of persons afflicted with these illnesses” (Wagner and MacCaugheltry, 2013).…
Cited: Brownell, Kelly D. and Christopher G. Fairburn, ed. Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensive Handbook. New York: Guilford Press, 1995.…
Eating disorders can be viewed as multi-determined disorders because there are many different factors that come into play when identifying them. Differing dimensions, like societal, cultural and psychological pressures all weigh in considerably when exploring the multiple scopes in influencing an eating disorder. Societal and cultural pressures are likely to influence the general population on how they see themselves in terms of attractiveness and appeal. Today, standards of beauty are more unrealistic and unachievable than ever. Young men and women, especially those in the modelling and dance industry, are only considered successful if they comply with such standards.…
Eating Disorders are on a steady increase in the United States among women of all ages and backgrounds (Maddux,. & Winstead., 2012). Women suffering from this disorder may not fully be aware of the dangers that are associated with the disease. Eating Disorders are classified as psychiatric disorder that causes the individual to develop other clinical disorders such as, Major Depression Disorder, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as it relates to stresses from ones past (Grilo., Pagano., Stout., Markowitz., Ansell., Pinto., Zanarini.,…
Hiripi,E. Harrisson, G.(2007).The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, journal of Biological Psychiarty (61) 348-358.…
