click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
CCC Eating Disorders
CCC Eating disorders
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Three factors that affect eating disorders | personality of the individual - intense need for love; the family a person is born into; socio-cultural pressure |
Underlying goal in treating a eating disorder | treat the patient's psychological issue |
Four eating disorders | Obesity; Anorexia Nervosa (AN); Bulimia Nervosa; Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified |
Commonality of all eating disorders | Distorted body image - psychologic and behavioral criteria |
Obesity | increase of body weight resulting from an excessive culmulation of bady fat realtive to lean body mass |
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) | refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight and by severe weight loss in the absence of obvious physical causes |
Bulimia Nervosa (BN) | repeated episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors; such as self-inducing vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics or other meds, fasting, excessive exercise |
EDNOS | AN + BN |
Russell's sign | callus on knuckles from self-induced emesis |