counseling for eating disorders

1. EATING
PROBLEM

2. • Eating is the ingestion of food to provide for
all organisms their nutritional or medicinal
needs, particularly for energy and growth.
• EATING DISORDERS are characterized by a
severe disturbances in eating bhvr.

3. WEIGHT/(HEIGHT)2

5. Psychological factors
• Low self-esteem
• Response to change (puberty)
• Response to stress (sports, dance)
• Personal illnes

6. More psychological factors:
Vulnerable Personality Characteristics
• Identity difficulties
• Need for approval
• Perfectionist
• Obsessive tendencies
• Irrational thinking
• Difficulty coping
• Inability to accept self

7. Interpersonal Factors
• Troubled family and personal relationships
• Difficulty expressing emotions and feelings
• wrong concept about size or weight
• History of physical or sexual abuse

8. Social and Cultural Factors
• Cultural pressures that glorify thinness and
place value on obtaining the perfect body
• Narrow definitions of beauty that include only
women and men of specific body weights and
shapes
• Cultural norms that value people on the basis
of physical appearance and not inner qualities
and strengths

9. Biological Factors
• Eating disorders often run in families (learn coping
skills and attitudes in family)
• Genetic component—research about brain and
eating in taking place (certain chemicals in the brain
control hunger, appetite and digestion have been
found unbalanced).
Source: www.NationalEatingDisorders.org

10. TYPES OF EATING DISORDER
ANOREXIA NEVOSA
BULIMIA NERVOSA

11. Anorexia Nervosa
• Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder
characterized by
– Person’s weight is less of normal weight
– Person has an intense fear of gaining weight
– Person has a distorted sense of their body shape
– In females, anorexia nervosa leads to a loss of the
menstrual period
Ch 9.1

12. • Two types of anorexia nervosa:
– Restricting type loses weight by severely limiting
the amount of food consumed
– Binge-eating-purging type engages in binges (large
amount of food consumed) following by purging
(vomiting or use of laxatives )

13. • Bulimia Nervosa involves episodes of rapid overeating
followed by purging
– A binge is defined as eating an excessive amount of food
within two hours
– Purging refers to vomiting, fasting or excessive exercise
• Bulimia involves a fear of gaining weight
Bulimia Nervosa
Ch 9.5

14. TREATMENT
• Cognitive behaviour therapy
• Family therapy
• Art therapy
• Guided self help
• In & out patient treatment
• Group therapy
• One to one counseling
• Information & advice
• Nutritional counselling

15. How to Help
Family and Friends
*Set a time to talk
*Communicate your concept about food
*Ask your friend concept about food
*Avoid conflicts
*Avoid placing shame, blame, or guilt
*Avoid giving simple solutions
*Express your continued support
• Knowledge
• Awareness
• Suppourt

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