Chapter 15: Eating Disorders
After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: - Discuss the societal pressures on people (especially women) to maintain a slim appearance, and the behaviors people engage in to meet these expectations.
- Discuss the key symptoms of anorexia nervosa, and distinguish between the restricting and the binge-purge type.
- Discuss the prevalence of anorexia and its associated health risks.
- Discuss the contributions of Sir William Gull and Charles Lasegue to our understanding of anorexia.
- Discuss the key symptoms of bulimia nervosa, and distinguish between the purging and nonpurging type.
- Discuss the prevalence of bulimia and its associated health risks.
- Identify the similarities and differences between anorexia and bulimia.
- Discuss binge-eating disorder and how it differs from anorexia and bulimia.
- Discuss the physiological and emotional effects of dieting, and how dieting may lead to both anorexia and bulimia.
- Discuss the gender similarities and differences in the eating disorders.
- Discuss the cross-cultural differences in the eating disorders.
- Summarize the theories of Hilda Bruch and Salvador Minuchin.
- Discuss the proposed explanations for why girls are at an increased risk for eating disorders compared to boys.
- Discuss the argument that eating disorders result from sexual abuse, and summarize what the evidence suggests about this idea.
- Discuss the evidence that genetic factors contribute to the development of eating disorders.
- Discuss the link between eating disorders and mood disorders.
- Discuss the biological abnormalities in anorexia and bulimia.
- Discuss the difficulties faced by therapists who treat anorexic clients, and the ingredients of effective therapy for anorexia.
- Discuss interpersonal, supportive-expressive, cognitive-behavioral, and behavioral therapies for bulimia, and their respective efficacy.
- Describe how efficacious or inefficacious tricyclic antidepressants, MAO inhibitors, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are for treating anorexia and bulimia.
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