SLT for Anorexia

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SLT (AN)
- MODELLING - can be acquired indirectly, through observation of a model
- IDENTIFICATION AND VR - danger that young women aware of media figures may identify with the glamour of female celebs, models, actresses.
- ROLE OF THE MEDIA - media provides rich source of symbolic models and powerful transmitter of cultural ideals about body size and shape.
Someone who provides a template for behaviour to be imitated.
Model can exist in real life or be fictional
Models privde a behaviour to follow and also modify social norms by establishing what is acceptable behaviour in a situation.
Models are most influential if the child identifies with them.
VICARIOUS REINFORCEMENT - depends on observing positive or negative consequences of that behaviour
If the model is rewarded for losing weight, it is more likely the observer will imitate, they recieve reinforcement indirectly.
Family members are major sources of VR. A lot of time is spent together, so observation of a behaviour is repeated frequently over time.
Media communicate images of the ideal body shape for women and men
In most Western cultures, this ideal has become thinner and thinner, to the point size 0 is aspired to.
This motivates them to behave in ways that help them lose weight and achieve thinness.
This behaviour would be vicariously reinforced by the rewarding fame, success, wealth

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