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    Essay Title: “What are the challenges that face a psychotherapist working with Self-harm or eating disorders?” The focus of this essay will be to examine the challenges a psychotherapist faces when working with eating disorders. Whilst acknowledging eating disorders can include overeating I will base the essay around anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. I will look at the various theories around the subject as well as provide examples of my own experience working within this field.

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    Gender‚ Race‚ & Class: Examining the Culture of Eating Disorders Sturman 2 Gender‚ Race‚ & Class: Examining the Culture of Eating Disorders I delivered a presentation on eating disorders to a racially‚ economically‚ and culturally diverse group of ten Northeastern University male and female students in a seminar. I asked the group to shout out a description of what type of person they thought would have an eating disorder. They all agreed‚ “Girl‚ wealthy‚ obsessed with pop culture‚ and white

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    Outline and evaluate explanations of eating disorders based on the biological model of psychological abnormality [18] Explanations tend to fall into four categories: • Evolutionary • Genetic • Neuroanatomy • Biochemical Evolutionary explanations of behaviour are based on Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection. These theories have been applied to eating disorders. It is suggested that the ability to control ones appetite and ignore hunger when food supplies

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    Binge Eating Case

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    Client is showing symptoms of suffering from a severe eating disorder which is categorized under the DSM-V as “Binge Eating” 307.51 (F50.8). Under the specific guidelines of the DSM-V‚ “Binge Eating” is defined as eating much more rapidly than normal‚ eating large amounts of food when not feeling psychically hungry‚ eating until feeling uncomfortably full‚ eating alone due to embarrassment of how much one is eating‚ feeling disgusted with oneself‚ depressed and guilty after overeating. Also‚ one

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    March 2010 Bizarre Eating Disorders When we think of eating disorders‚ bulimia and anorexia are the ones that come to mind. However there are many more‚ even more severe and harmful to the body. What is an eating disorder? An eating disorder is a physiological condition which affects an individuals eating habits‚ either as a result of their own doing (self-inflicted)‚ or as a bodily reaction to the consumption of food. Anorexia is one of the most common eating disorders by using self-starvation

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    Custom Binge Eating Disorder essay writing service. Samples‚ help Binge eating is a disorder that is characteristically associated with compulsive overeating. Peterson‚ Golden & Kramer (2009) cited that binge eaters consume large amounts of food out of powerlessness and inability to control their eating style. This disorder compels one to eat even when one is not actually hungry. Such people can therefore continue eating for a long time even after they are full. Binge eating makes one to actually

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    Personality‚ and Eating Disorders Case Analysis Introduction Abnormal disorders diagnosed in the DSM-IV-TR‚ a multi-axial diagnostic tool‚ used by clinicians‚ psychologists‚ psychiatrists‚ and medical professionals for the classification of mental disorders (Hansell & Damour‚ 2008). Axis I and Axis II of the DSM-IV-TR covers classifications of mental disorders that include unwelcome types of distress and impairment‚ that constitutes mental disease‚ disorder‚ and or disability

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    Disorders In Athletes

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    2005). Researchers have examined the apparent nature of athletes developing eating disorders(ED)‚ acknowledging it to the list of risks that need to be addressed. Athletic competition often increases the prevalence of sports pressure that encourages the visibility of an ideal body promoting body dissatisfaction (Thiemann et al.‚ 2015). The World Health Organization(WHO) have defined ED as the incidence of abnormal eating behaviors‚ these can be further classified as anorexia and bulimia nervosa (World

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    Introduction Healthy eating patterns in adolescence promote optimal growth and intellectual development. They also can prevent short-term health problems‚ such as obesity‚ dental caries‚ and iron deficiency anemia. Moreover‚ it can prevent long-term health outcomes‚ such as coronary heart diseases and certain types of cancers. Eating disorders among adolescents is a serious problem which can cause severe changes in eating habits and then lead to major life threatening health issues. It includes

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    Theories Of Stress Eating

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    the more I eat. It is this mindless eating that occurs as I work on projects or school work. School work and similar activities seem to trigger the eating more than any other stress‚ although‚ family and social stress have also triggered my stress eating response. It does not even really matter what the food is‚ salty‚ or sweet‚ it does not matter‚ whatever is at hand is fair game. Psychoanalytic Perspective From the psychoanalytic perspective‚ my stress eating may be seen as a manifestation of fixation

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