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Mind Map by Stephanie Bates, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Stephanie Bates
about 10 years ago
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Eating Disorders
- Body weight -85% normal for age/height
- Intense fear of fat, distorted perception of body weight + shape
- 90% women
- Behavioural Explanations -
SLT + Operant Conditioning
- SLT + role of media, parents + peers
- Obs/ + imitation - Role
models valued/admired
(magazines, films, TV)
- Model rewarded = imitation more likely
(vicarious reinforcement)
- Direct reinforcement
(operant conditioning) =
imp/ - praised by peers
or parents for losing
weight, thinner
- Female role
models = slim +
attractive.
Creates tension
bet/w real self +
ideal self. =
Dissatisfaction
w/ body weight
+shape = dieting
+ obsession w/
food
- Striegal-Moore + Bulik (2007) - media images idealised women
e.g. Miss world (taller + slimmer over 50 yrs). Ass/ w/ rise in EDs
- Becker et al (2002) - 1995 63 Fijian girls, questionnaire attitudes
to eating and TV viewing habits. 3yrs. 13% risk of ED 1st yr, 29%.
- SLT - explains men EDs, depiction in mags - supplements/steroids. Explained by inf/ in media.
- Most women exposed, few AN - other vulnerability factors (personality, social anxiety
+ low self-esteem) vulnerable. Poss/ genetic factors
- SLT + role of media, parents + peers
- Psychodynamic Explanations
- Family Systems Theory - Minuchin et al
(1975) - Enmeshment (no identity, not
independent) - Unable to Resolve Conflict
(deny, ignore conflict transfer anxiety to AN
child. AN ettempt to divert attention from
fam/ conflicts
- Bruch (1973) - Exert control. Girls trying to become
autonomous + independent. One area to control
- Crisp (1980) - Preventing sexual maturity + gain control over
development. Prevent menstruation - unconscious desire
remain pre-pubertal (fear of adulthood)
- Retrospective - fam/ interactions after ED - cause + effect
- Difficult to test scientifically - case studies. Biased
samples, not representative, lack control + reliability
- Developing baby - gender bias - explanation limited
- Developing baby - gender bias - explanation limited
- Wilson et al (2007) - Pos/ app/ - fam/
dynamics. Family therapy effective.
- Family Systems Theory - Minuchin et al
(1975) - Enmeshment (no identity, not
independent) - Unable to Resolve Conflict
(deny, ignore conflict transfer anxiety to AN
child. AN ettempt to divert attention from
fam/ conflicts
- IDA - Complex
disorder.
Psychological
(nurture) limited - ED
= social,
psychological +
biological e.g...
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