Anoerxia Nervosa and Psychological Explanations

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What are the symtpoms of anoxeria?
Body weight is less than 85% of normal weight for age and height, Suffers have an intense fear of becoming fat, There is a distorted perception of body weight and shape o and Amenorrhoea (loss of three consecutive menstrual cycles in women)
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What % of cases are women?
90%
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What did Streigel-Moore 2007 find?
Media images of the perfect women have become taller and slimmer over the last 50 years. This has correlated with the rise in the number of eating disorders
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What did Becker et al 2002 find?
Eating disorders were found in Fiji after the introduction of TV and exposure to western images of women
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Busch 1973 put forward the psychodynamic approach to anorexia, what does this state?
Anorexia develops in girls who are trying to feel independent or autonomous in families that do not allow them autonomy. Eating behaviour is one area they can control
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Loss of weight in anorexia prevents menstruation. Crisp 1980 suggested...
That the eating disorder is an attempt to stay pre-pubertal as they fear they cannot cope with being an adult
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Minuchin et al 1978 put forward the family system approach to eating disorders, which states...
An eating disorder as an attempt by the child to divert attention away from family problems • Evaluation
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Why can't the media be the only explantion?
Only very few women actually develop anorexia so must be other factors than just media, as we are all exposed to it
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What is the main issue with psychodynamic theories?
They are unfalsifiable because they are based on hypothetical constructs
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Papathomas (2006)- Case study of an elite footballer with bulimia. What did he find?
How the stigma of eating disorders being a “female disease” likely to prevent many males seeking professional help.
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