Eating Disorhood: The Four Pillars Of Childhood

Eating disorders in children, like in adults, are generally viewed as a multi-determined syndrome with a variety of interacting factors, biological, psychological, familial and socio-cultural. It is important to recognize that each factor plays a role in predisposing, precipitating, or perpetuating the problem.

Conditional affection, children mostly change unworthy experiences because they might be not accepted because they believe love is conditional from others. They will twist their experience to feel worthy of acceptance. Conditional affection promotes incongruence, for example children who lacks confidence and who wait to be told what to do.

Thesis Statement: It is important to understand eating disorders and the types of eating disorders to overcome them and seek the proper treatment.

Since the moment one is born, until one’s life comes to a halting end, he or she is always in a quest to find his or her self. Clearly, the concept of self is rather complex. Humans are different entities, with varied views on the world, which is what makes the universe such an interesting place. Of course, people are born with certain characteristics that become the bases for who he or she is. Yet, the components that fall under the self, such as, self concept, self knowledge, self esteem continue to change. Interestingly enough, the self falls under a specific spectrum. When he or she is young, he or she can merely recognize him or herself. Therefore the self is lost. However when he or she begins school the self he or she fall under one of the two

The love between a parent and child is unconditional. It comes straight from the heart. The bond between a parent and child is something that only a parent can really understand. It starts before the child is born and will last a life time. Parents want to protect their child from any kind of harm. From the day the child is born, the mother and father will be the one that the child will depend on. The parents will be the one the child relies on whenever the child gets hurt, needs help, needs a shoulder to cry on,

With children as early as age 7 showing dissatisfaction with their body, and as young as 9 starting dieting, eating disorders are a serious issue in our society. Taking a look at perceptions, behaviors, and medical issues associated with the disorders of anorexia and bulimia, scholars have tried to categorize and find answers to the problems which certain adolescents suffer. In this paper I focused on the two major eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia.

Boys with eating disorders have stated that their father has often pressured them into excelling in sports and there are often very high expectations in this arena. (Romero, 1994) As a result of this obligation to succeed the boy may have low self-esteem and feelings of inadequacy. He needs to control his life in some way, and he sees an opportunity in controlling his bodies. By taking their previously obsessive behavior in academics and sports and expanding that obsession into eating as well.

Dianne Neumark-Sztainer is one of the passionate psychologists in the area of eating disorder prevention, obesity, and body dissatisfaction. In this article, she mainly talks about the inspirations, aims, difficulties and results of the school-based eating disorder prevention programs that she developed with her colleagues. As professor expresses in the article, in these programs they mainly aim to make a beneficial change at the individual level and societal level.

Conditional love is if you live up to your parents standards then they show you love but if you don’t then they show you hate and withdrawal that love. The kids don’t talk much because if they say something wrong or go against their parents then they will get hurt. That leaves them scared of other people, which could lead to them being lonely. When the child’s parents don’t respect him then he will lose respect for himself. When a child has no self-respect then he or she will feel like they aren’t good enough for anything or anyone.

Phase 2 is begun when the patient has begun eating in more normal quantities, and is gaining weight at a consistent rate; the patient at this stage has been fighting anorexia and is beginning to win. Also characterising this stage is a feeling of relief and accomplishment among the family; the patient has been helped to pull herself out of immediate physical danger and take charge of the disorder rather than the disorder taking charge of her. During this stage, the responsibility for eating is gradually returned to the patient as appropriate to her age and development, re-affording her control and autonomy. (6; 17) The therapy at this stage focuses on challenging her distorted ideas on food and weight. (18) Phase 3 begins when the adolescent is maintaining a healthy weight and is eating consistently and autonomously, without engaging in self-starvation. During this phase, the focus moves from the adolescent 's eating habits to the establishing of her identity as a young person, her growing independence as appropriate to her age and stage of development, and the shifting of the balance of the family away from focusing on the eating disorder. (6; 17)

The aims of the research were instantly identified as the researchers presented the aims clearly in the introduction. Identifying the aims and statement of the research reflect the direction of the research almost immediately and formulates the title of the article. There is also an importance behind the research that is clear and relevant as young people (10-19 years old) are suffering from eating disorders.

DEAR ABBY: It has come to my attention recently that my child Sterling who’s seven refuses to eat anything that is remotely healthy. He will eat anything that is covered in sugar or is very processed e.g. fast food, frozen meals. I give in to his demands sometimes, but that is only because I want to see him eat something. I am a very healthy person myself and I eat mostly fruits, vegetables and chicken. I will consistently make him very nice and healthy dinners when the wife and I sit down to eat, but he refuses to eat them. He seems to be healthy and he is growing like a weed, I just never see him eat anything with the suggested nutrients a child should be getting. What would you recommendations be in order to address this situation? The paths that I was considering were holding out and keep eating as I normally do and maybe he will get hungry, or my other option is to start giving him vitamins for the nutrients he

1. Chapter 9, “Adolescence” Body and Mind,” section Puberty explains the physical and mental changes that teenagers go through, it’s the state in which they transition from children to young adults, incapable of completely just one or the other (Berger, 315). The first changes of puberty, physically-wise, begins around the ages of 9 – 13 years’ old for both boys and girls, which include facial and body hair, deepening of the voice, and of course body growth; such as the hands, feet, face, and private parts. Although genetics do play a role of the timing of these body changes, environmental, emotional, and cultural factors can also affect the time and age when puberty happens. Sometimes it’s delayed, other times the process is quicker than norm. “About two thirds of the variation of age of puberty is genetic, evident not only in families, but also in ethnic groups…precocious puberty is genetic, but the cause of the increase is largely unknown – perhaps childhood obesity or new chemicals in the environment” (Berger, 320-321). Among puberty, adolescents’ nutrition become poor due to body image…In addition, there eating disorders that teenagers discover during their transition, they are more “vulnerable to unhealthy eating,” and unlike childhood, “eating disorders increase drastically during puberty” (Berger, 325). This part of the chapter explains two major and serious types of eating disorders. Anorexia Nervosa is a voluntarily starvation in which a person will starve him or

There are multiple ways to be guided to an eating disorder other than the media. “Eating behavior is a complex process controlled by the neuroendocrine system of which the Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal-axis (HPA axis) is a major component” (News Medical). Psychological research is very important to patients who have an eating disorder. Throughout the research in the paper, researchers have come to a conclusion that some of the qualities in the brain a person has a certain level

Two studies were done about childhood factors and eating disorders symptoms. In the last two decades the prevalence of anorexia nervosa in South Korea has increased. The rate has increased from 0.03% in 1987 to 0.2 percent in 2007A study found that the Korean women with AN had higher levels of anxiety, perfectionism and an emotional childhood with a lower number of supportive figures compared to the healthy control group. The study supported ideas that personal vulnerability could be an important risk factor for developing anorexia nervosa. Children with perfectionism tendencies have one of the “setting conditions” (Heo & Kang& Kim & Song& Treasure, 2009), for developing anorexia nervosa in the Korean participants. Also people with parents who were perfectionist with regard to their children 's shape and weight form the backbone for forming anxiety about shape and weight that was reported by the Korean women. “Premorbid anxiety is suspected to contribute an important genetically medicated pathway towards developing of anorexia by way of heightening sensitivity to eating disorder systems” (Heo & Kang& Kim & Song& Treasure, 2009). Having more supportive figures during upbringing may cause people to form more resilient. The study concluded that there was a small difference between Korean and Western countries when it came to being teased about weight and shape, it has been found that the United States cultures put pressure on the thin ideal which is important risk for