Anorexia is a can be a scary and stressful disorder on the patient and family members. Anorexia is an emotional disorder that is defined by an obsession to lose weight or refusing to eat. When compared to other mental disorders, anorexia has the highest mortality rates due to cardiac arrest or suicide (Smith). This is a serious disease that can be difficult to treat. The Maudsley’s Method is a controversial treatment for patients who suffer with anorexia. Maudsely’s Method was modeled after Minuchin’s work, who viewed psychological difficulties not on an individual level but as a result of having disrupt family patterns (Smith). Christopher Dare ad Ivan Eisler developed what the Maudsely’s Method (Smith). Maudsely’s Method is a family-based treatment plan that can prevent or stop hospitalization for their child. It focuses on using the parents as the source of the treatment (Pearson). With that being said there is some controversy about this method not working. I do agree to an extent, if the parent’s …show more content…
This stage starts when the patient is able to self-sufficiently maintain weight above 95% of the ideal weight and didn’t refrain from limitation in a variety of social environments with and outside the family (Smith). This phase primarily focuses on the developing and making efforts towards a healthy life style. Many issues are addressed during this stage such as adolescences, independence, internal and external influences, parental boundaries, and re-evaluating the parent’s interest with the eating disorder. This last phase takes about three or so more sessions and stops when the parents and therapist both feel the patient is back on the right tract (Smith). This step is what wraps the treatment up and makes it effective because the patient has development skills to have a healthy diet and life style now. This addresses issues so that the patient can maintain these new
Up until 2004, there was virtually no clinical trials to prove that families should be incorporated in the treatment process. Krautter and Lock (2004), disproved all of the critics to show that family based therapy worked in a clinical trial on an adolescent girl with anorexia. Family Based Therapy works in three steps, otherwise known as the Maudsley Approach. In the clinical trial, the first step for the therapy is to ensure the patient will not die from starvation, hypothermia, or heart problems. The therapist helps the parents learn tactics on how to get their children to eat more at the dinner table, but still being gentle and caring by letting their child know it is not their fault for their eating disorder. The second step in the therapy involves more freedom given to the child because they are not in a life-threatening situation anymore (if they have gained weight), but the parents still press eating meals along with this freedom. The third step helps the adolescent find their identity and how they will organize their life with their parents being involved. These three steps in Family Based Therapy were shown to be effective in a clinical
Most people with anorexia have a distorted image of their body. An anorexic will look into the mirror and see fat, even if they are sickly thin. Most commonly, anorexia begins in the teen years. This may be related to the common self-image problems that many teens suffer from. Anorexia tends to be more common in females than in males, and early intervention seems to be the key when dealing with this disorder. When left untreated, anorexia can lead to a whole slew of physical problems. Health problems related to anorexia include osteoporosis, kidney damage or failure, heart problems, and even death. Anorexia also affects the brain, as a person starves themself their metabolism changes. This change in the body causes a person not to think clearly or make good decisions. As anorexia progresses, a person will begin to have irrational behavior. For example, a person suffering from anorexia will often make rules about the amount of food they are “allowed” to consume. Others may start to purge themselves after eating even the tiniest bit of food, which is known as Bulimia. Anorexia can also bring on another psychological disorder; Depression. Depression is a mental illness that causes a person to feel sad and hopeless most of the time. People that suffer from depression will lose interest in things that they previously enjoyed, speak slower than normal, have trouble concentrating and remembering things, and be preoccupied by death
Anorexia is a serious mental health condition. It is an eating disorder where people try to keep their body weight as low as possible. DSM5 outlines the key diagnostic features for anorexia. Firstly, people with anorexia will restrict behaviours that promote healthy body weight. This could mean that they are consequentially underweight and this can be due to dieting, exercising and purging. There will also be a significant fear of weight gain, but this fear will not be relieved by weight loss. There will be a persistent fear that interferes with weight gain. Lastly, there will be a disturbed perception of ones weight and/or shape and denial of underweight status and its seriousness. Anorexia accounts for 10% of eating disorders in the UK and has
Anorexia is an eating disorder and a mental health condition which can be life-threatening. Anorexia is an irrational fear of gaining weight, it typically involves excessive weight loss and usually occurs more in females than in males.
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder and a mental health condition that could potentially be life-threatening. People with anorexia try to keep their weight as low as possible by restricting the amount of food they eat. They often have a distorted image of themselves, thinking that they're fat when they're not. Some people with the condition also exercise excessively, and some eat a lot of food in a short space of time (binge eating) and then make themselves sick. People affected by anorexia often go to great attempts to hide their behaviour from their family and friends by lying about eating and what they have eaten. Anorexia is linked to
While the media definitely plays a role in how we view ourselves, anorexia is a way of coping with what’s going on in a teen’s life. Stress, pain, anger, acceptance, confusion and fear can all become triggers for this debilitating eating disorder. The goal is one of trying to make their whole life better.
There is a focus on helping patients to observe and label their emotional reactions to trauma, validation and acquiring a balance between acceptance and change. This is a fairly new type of approach which is being modified for the treatment of eating disorders. (Santucci, 2010) This form of therapy, according to the data is appropriate for any individual afflicted with this condition as well as many others, but currently does not have a depth of research behind it to prove it individually effective specifically for AN.
Anorexia as defined by the Mariam-Webster Dictionary, is a serious disorder in eating behavior, primarily of young women in their teens and early twenties that is characterized especially by a pathological fear of weight gain leading to faulty eating patterns, malnutrition, and usually excessive weight loss. It is also called Anorexia Nervosa. Bulimia
In this paper, I will discuss how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be utilized in the management of eating disorders. More specifically I will identify Anorexia Nervosa and provide statistics that relate to the disease. Etiologies will be discussed as well as symptoms. Various techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will be described as well as the rationale as it relates to the clinical issue.
The first step in the treatment of anorexia is to aid the client in adapting a more standardized eating pattern. A dietitian may intervene at this point to assist the affected person to adopt more healthy eating behaviors. The counselor's role is to gradually help the client begin to adopt a more normal eating style (Shekter-Wolfson et al 13). In all cases, however, there are six goals of any treatment process:
A recent study compared the different types of therapy in which participants suffering from anorexia participated in an attempt to gain weight. In the study, there were 71 participants, and from the 71 participants, there were 28 participants in the cognitive behavioural, 26 participants in the control group and 17 participants in the family therapy. Each therapy was measured by the weight before treatment (M =85.01, SD =4.79), weight after treatment (M =87.48, SD =8.06), weight change (M =2.46, SD =7.88) and the number of self-reported close friends (M =7.00, SD =2.37). The treatment conditions that were measured by weight before therapy were cognitive behavioural (M =84.90, SD =4.75), control group (M =84.38, SD =5.14) and family therapy (M =86.19, SD =4.37). Within these treatment conditions, which were measured by weight before therapy, there were no treatment conditions that were significantly different from one another.
This paper will talk about some of the things that people with eating disorders go through in their daily lives and give a general description of what exactly an eating disorder is and why it is important. Schwitzer Alan M., Bergholz Kim, Dore Terri, and Salimi Lamieh all talk about a few things that they did in order to prevent eating disorders among college woman as well as some of the treatment methods and preventative measure someone can take in order to prevent something like this from happening again. It will also talk about something called the “three-legged stool” which was created by Sackett et al. in 1996. The “three-legged stool” is a treatment method for eating disorders which considers research evidence, patient preference and values, and clinical expertise. There will also be some evidence included to explain why those three things are important in treating eating disorders. Carol B. Peterson, Carolyn Black Becker, Janet Treasure, Roz Shafran, and Rachel Bryant-Waugh all mention how these things will help optimize treatment of eating disorders because patients won’t be forced into doing something that they don’t enjoy in order to overcome their eating disorder. The last thing that will be talked about is a case study conducted by Joanna Steinglass, Karin Foerde, Katrina Kostro, Daphna Shohamy, and Timothy Walsh. This case study attempts to develop a new paradigm
Anorexia nervosa, usually shortened to anorexia, is defined as an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat (Mayo Clinic). Some of the factors of anorexia are a refusal to maintain a healthy body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image (Segal). People with anorexia place a high value on controlling their weight and shape, using extreme efforts that tend to significantly interfere with activities in their lives. Thoughts about dieting, food, and one’s body may take up most of the day, leaving little time for friends, family, and other activities they used to enjoy. Life turns into always trying to lose weight. The people living with anorexia have distorted minds. They have a phobia of gaining weight and will go to extreme circumstances to achieve their ideal body image. Anorexia is not just about the food, however. Usually anorexia is an unhealthy way to manage their underlying emotional problems. When one has anorexia, they often equate thinness to self-worth and happiness. Anorexia nervosa affects millions of people worldwide, but the prevalence of them in dancers, particularly ballet dancers, is said to be nearly 20 times higher than in non-dancers (Shoker). Nevertheless, anorexia can damage health and even threaten lives.
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)
There is a rare chance to get rid of eating disorders wholly, in other words, it may occur in one patient's life repeatedly. For instance, a British teenage girl with anorexia resulted from the stress of peers dropped out school to concentrate on recovery since she was too weak to maintain daily activities. After years of isolation from people during recuperation, she took courage to step into the society again and commence a new life; however, it did not last long. The judgment for her appearance from others devastated her confidence once again; as a result, she crawled back to anorexia nervosa. Obviously, her body was going through yo-yo effect owing to the extreme method of weight loss, such as crash diets. Fortunately, she found it that vegan diet could be the answer. A vegan refuses to consume any animal product and rely on the nutrition from plants, which contains lower calories. It seemed to be a perfect solution to the girl’s problem, but it is not one-size-fits-all. This case only suggests one method of dealing with eating disorders. In another case, a Japanese girl who had suffered from anorexia previously turned out to be diagnosed with bulimia after her parents attempted to hospitalize her for anorexia. Apparently, the change the girl had experienced was tremendous as she gained more than 40 kilograms afterward; nonetheless, she overcame eating disorders gradually after she had met her husband. In fact, the competition between her and her sister who was always considered the more beautiful one was fierce; consequently, a lack of attention and love was the root of her illness. This case suggests that solving the real problem hidden behind like insecurity is an alternative method to recover. Ultimately, there are multiple ways to beat eating disorders, and everyone suits differently; moreover, medical treatment is equally