Describe and Evaluate Psychological Explanations of Anorexia Nervosa (24) Behavioural explanations of anorexia nervosa (AN) suggest that slimming becomes a ‘habit’‚ through stimulus response mechanisms. For example‚ the person goes on a diet and receives praise either for their efforts or their new slimmer appearance. Operant conditioning then takes effect as the admiration from others further reinforces their dieting behaviour. Rewards may also come in the form of attention gained from parents
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suggests anorexia is a way to stop sexual development because the anorexic has an unconscious desire to remain pre-pubescent. Their weight loss prevents them from developing the body shape associated with adult females‚ and therefore allows them to preserve the illusion that they are still children. It is also suggested that anorexia is a result of parental conflicts because these are reduced by the need to attend to the anorexic child. Family conflicts may be a result of having a family member
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Sexual abuse in patients with Anorexia and Bulimia. An attempt to order from the Modular-transformational approach. The increasing incidence of anorexia / bulimia in the past thirty years and the difficulties for successful treatment are a challenge to the professional community dedicated to their attention. Both psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have redoubled efforts to understanding and intervention in order to give an appropriate response to what is considered an epidemic and a type of pathology
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What if you were surrounded by media messages telling you that‚ "people will like you more if you have the perfect body" or "being perfect makes people like you" ? How do you think young female teenagers would interpret these messages that the media are portraying? 81% of ten year old girls are afraid of being fat‚ of being considered ugly. Why do you think ten year olds would ever care about how they look? It’s because of the media implying that being slim is beauty. Due to the media’s brainwashing
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are typical signs of the illness. Depression combined with a loss of interest in friends and family is common. Girls cease to have their menstrual periods; there is a question as to whether they can ever get pregnant after a severe illness. Sadly‚ anorexics will never reach the ideal figure they strive for. They strictly follow their diet without knowing the difference between a healthy and a sick looking body. Their mirror image always appears as “fat” in their eyes‚ no matter how thin they really
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and binge eating disorders alike began to appear along with poor body image and lowered self-esteem. Not only are anorexics and bulimia victims given sympathy‚ they are respected. The disease itself is romanticized because of the social status and beauty that accompanies it. It’s not uncommon to hear adolescent girls relay their respect for anorexics. Young girls respect anorexics because they exercise self-control to the degree of obsession. It’s not easy to refuse your body food for normal
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anorexia- Fava et al (1989). Infection can also cause anorexia. There is a link between glandular fever and anorexia. The hypothalamus in the brain controls the release of hormones that regulate hunger. It has been suggested that the hypothalamus in anorexics is damaged. Holland et al (1988) investigated the possibility of genetics causing anorexia. He found that the concordance rates for monozygotic twins is 56% and dizygotic twins is 12%. The closer you are genetically to someone who has anorexia
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talking to psychiatric patients because of the therapeutic communication skills that all of the nurses had. The patients in the movie were assisted in their treatment with medications‚ teaching‚ talk therapy‚ and continuous monitoring. For example‚ anorexic patients had to eat a certain number of calories and were continuously monitored when they ate and went to the rest room to ensure that the therapy was effective. This film will help my future treatment of patients because it has taught me how to
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Mental Illness HCA/240 Nicole Williams Yosely Cruz 12/16/2012 There are different main characteristic ’s for the mental illness of anorexia nervosa. This mental illness has to do with a person ’s eating habit and is classified as an extreme illness. Anorexia nervosa is a way a person deals with emotional stress. This may happen
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