...Recommended Reading - Annotated Bibliography Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating 3 Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery 3 Beating Ana: How to Outsmart your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back 3 Beginner’s Guide to Eating Disorders Recovery 3 *Biting the Hand That Starves You 4 *Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery 4 Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, 3rd Ed. 4 Eating Disorders: Journey to Recovery Workbook 4 *Desperately Seeking Self: An Inner Guidebook For People With Eating Problems 5 *Life without ED: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too 5 Overcoming Overeating 6 *Overcoming Binge Eating 6 *The Anorexia Workbook: How To Accept Yourself, Heal Your Suffering, And Reclaim Your Life 6 *The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook 7 *Skinny Boy: A Young Man’s Battle and Triumph Over Anorexia 7 When Dieting Becomes Dangerous: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Anorexia and Bulimia……………7 Body Image and Self-Esteem 8 *Body Image Workbook: An 8-step Program For Learning To Like Your Looks (2nd Ed.) 8 *Body Love: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves 8 *Feeling Good About the Way You Look………………………..……………………………..8 Girls Rock: Wise Teens Offer Tweens and Moms Advice on Healthy Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Personal Empowerment.9 Life Doesn’t Begin Five Pounds From Now 9 Love your Body: Change the Way You Feel about the Body You Have 9 *Self...
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...Case Study Project Eating Disorders Kerri-Ann Mirander February 22, 2015 PSY 370I Abnormal Psychology Eating Disorders In today’s world society and the media are seen as a popular source of entertainment, news, even as gossip; everyday people are exposed constantly to the imagines of glamour, what beauty should be, the rich and famous and so much more. Media, social networks and society has so much power that they change a person believes and their outlook on their lives as well as themselves. Images of perfection are repeatedly shown to our young people of all ages, and they all want to be a part of the trend that’s happening. Our young people even ourselves start questioning our bodies and start to feel as though we need to change our bodies in order to fit in with the crowd. Commonly we turn to dieting and working on our appearances which unfortunately in many circumstances lead to eating disorders. Case Study Ellesa is a 19 year old female she is a cheerleader for Texas A&M University. As a child she was a cheerleader for her neighborhood team, she started cheering at the age of 5. When Ellesa entered high school she was 135lbs and 5’4, the varsity team cheerleaders picked on her and gave her the pet name Ms. Piglet. Ellesa did not know how to deal with this as it was silently eating her inside, and depression was starting to take effect. At the tender age of thirteen Ellesa started to over eat and learned how to make herself vomit after, she no longer...
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...McDougal Chapter 15 - #1 Anxiety disorders are a class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety. Studies suggest that anxiety disorders are quite common, and affect roughly 19% of the population. For this assignment I am focusing on a subject with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Post-traumatic Stress Disorder involves enduring psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event. My subject is now 38, and lived in New Orleans when hurricane Katrina ravished through the south. His symptoms include re-experiencing the event in the form of nightmares, emotional numbing, alienation, anxiety, anger, and guilt. Research suggests that about 7% of the population has suffered from PTSD at some point in their life, and that prevalence is twice as high among women.¹ The etiology of PTSD, like most psychological disorders, develops out of complicated interactions among a variety of biological and psychological factors. In this case, my subject had witnessed many people die, lose their homes, and devastate his city of New Orleans. There are many factors that play into the role of PTSD; I’ll briefly cover each of them. * Biological factors: In studies that assess the impact of heredity on psychological disorders, investigators look at concordance rates. A concordance rate indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder. The results of these studies suggest...
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...Ellyday By Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi Eating disorders are becoming more and more frequent as a result of fashion’s huge expectations of people’s appearances. The praise of the eternal youthful look forces people into the use of extreme methods to obtain this ideal. One of them is eating disorders – particularly anorexia. Even though the fashion industry claims to be without guilt, because - as I once heard a man express in a show about the same theme – (of course I can’t remember the name of the show or the exact words, but it went something like this): models are just hangers, which show the clothes, there’s no reason for young girls to get so worked up over the model’s figure. The only problem is: there is! Many girls dream about becoming a model and they quickly learn if they want to be a model, they have to be thin. Really thin And the fastest way to become thin is by starving themselves. Furthermore when girls reach their teen years and the interest in boys and an aspiration to become popular emerge, insecure girls think (because of course it’s nothing like that – at least not everywhere) the only way to obtain those things is by being thin. And sometimes this obsession to achieve a perfect body goes too far. This extremely dark side of being a teenager is portrayed in Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi’s short story Ellyday. It is about two friends, Sophie and Elly. On a cold Saturday morning Sophie pays Elly a visit to confront her, because she has discovered Elly has anorexia...
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...“Thin” Reaction Paper “Thin” a documentary about women facing their eating disorders. “Thin” focused on four particular women Polly, Shelley, Brittany, and Alisa. These women were all brave enough to realize they had a problem and wanted help with the exception of Brittany. Sometimes when I hear about women with eating disorders I can be unsympathetic. I just feel there are so many things in life to think about other than what people think of you. Then I had to realize media has a lot to do with the way our young women picture themselves. We all want to look like this superstar. They all see this fat, ugly person when they look in the mirror and I realized I do the same thing, if we admit it we’ve all done it. The only difference is I’ve come to embrace this so called “fat” person. I wasn’t happy with my body image so I’m doing something about it but in a healthy way. These woman have so much more going on mentally they probably should have gotten therapy way before it got this far. These women just had so much more going on than they can show in a short documentary. I felt the documentary was ok. I don’t know what the director was going for but the documentary was a bit fluff. I don’t think it really went as deep as it could have. I mean the stories were real but the Renfrew just seem like it wasn’t really helping that much. The fact that they would throw you out as soon as you’re insurance ran out, even though it’s clear you still need to be there, was disgraceful. It showed...
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...Eating Disorders “Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives” (Neumark-Sztainer, 2005 p.5). According to CaringOnline (2010) eating disorders are serious emotional and physical problems that can have life-threatening consequences for females and men. They include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues (Eating Disorders). People define eating disorders as problems with appetite or a teens desire to be thin and attractive, yet experts claim that eating disorders represent more than that (Yancey, 1999, p. 20). According to Yancey (1999), they are subconscious ways by which some teens cope with poor self-esteem, anxiety, anger and abuse. Those who develop them are focusing on weight and food because they have not learned more effective ways of solving problems and taking control of their lives (p. 20). There are three major types of Eating Disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and Binge-eating disorder yet anorexia nervosa gets the most attention (Frissell, Harney, 1998, p. 20). Anorexia and bulimia nervosa are eating disorders affecting teenagers, and young adults endangering their lives physically and emotionally. When diagnosing an eating disorder, professionals often refer to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), published by the American Psychiatric Association...
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...evidence according to systems used in established evidence-based models. Our literature search identified 17 articles of interest; 13 of the most relevant were reviewed in detail. From these, we developed evidence-based best practice recommendations on the psychological assessment and treatment of WLS patients. Regular updates of evidence-based recommendations for best practices in psychological care are required to address the impact of mental health on short- and long-term outcomes after WLS. Key factors in patient safety include comprehensive preoperative evaluation, use of appropriate and reliable evaluation instruments, and the development of short- and long-term treatment plans. Obesity (2009) 17, 880–884. doi:10.1038/oby.2008.571 Introduction Evidence-based best practice guidelines for psychological assessment and care in weight loss surgery (WLS) have been previously described (1). Earlier recommendations focused on patient selection/screening, preoperative evaluation, the relationship between binge eating and outcome, the role of the mental health practitioner in the WLS team, and postoperative support. This report covers key updates in these...
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...Luis Cerna WRT-101-095 Revision Today’s Media Influence on Body Image The media today comes in many forms. For example, we have magazines, newspapers, television, radio, and the internet. Having all these elements at one’s disposal is a great asset, but it can also be a manipulator that could blindside consumers. The media has shaped society’s idea of what perfect is and it has definitely changed our idea of what perfect looks like. Exposure to thin female models and muscular built males on a daily basis has created an entirely new culture for the new generations. Having a perfect body not only means being healthy and achieving the perfect physical imagine. Now it also means power, fame, money and most of all attention. Today media has a negative influence on our body image. Body image is not only about how a person physically looks but also how the individual feels about himself. How society presents not only a perfect body but a healthy one, the ideals have tremendously changed in the past decade. Now we are being forced to meet unrealistic body types and looks in order to fit in and love ourselves. The media exposes super model images on television, ads, magazines and even the radio making us believe these deceptive images. According to article Food and Body Image, in a 1992 article in the Journal of Communication, it was estimated that on average adolescents see more than 5,260 “attractiveness messages” each year. And according to the American College of Obstetricians...
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...setting a trend in thee American’s society. Children as young as two months old are being entered into the world of beauty pageants. While the beauty pageant industry continues to grow, the controversy surrounding the effects and harms these pageants can have on the contestants has also grown. Children are entered in to these competitions for a variety of reasons. Maybe some of the potential prizes awarded to the winners tempt many parents to get their children involved in these events. There are many risk factors that may take effect in some children, like developing eating disorders and having mental health problems. This not only takes their innocence away, but also makes them likely to develop several mental and emotional imbalances later in life. The glitter and glitz of the glamorous life with its elegant dresses, elaborate hair-dos, sparkling tiaras, heavy make-up, and the deafening applause is short-lived. These fairy tales fades away into a nightmares that can leave these children with a notion of a world that is not as they had dreamed it to be. The benefits which come from most of these pageants are tiaras, trophies and large scholarships. Many of the top prizes for these pageants are college scholarships. These young participants also have to put forth an image of outstanding behavior and social manners. All pageants are put together differently, and until there are laws and rules put in place for...
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...Thin” Reaction Paper “Thin” a documentary about women facing their eating disorders. “Thin” focused on four particular women Polly, Shelley, Brittany, and Alisa. These women were all brave enough to realize they had a problem and wanted help with the exception of Brittany. Sometimes when I hear about women with eating disorders I can be unsympathetic. I just feel there are so many things in life to think about other than what people think of you. Then I had to realize media has a lot to do with the way our young women picture themselves. We all want to look like this superstar. They all see this fat, ugly person when they look in the mirror and I realized I do the same thing, if we admit it we’ve all done it. The only difference is I’ve come to embrace this so called “fat” person. I wasn’t happy with my body image so I’m doing something about it but in a healthy way. These woman have so much more going on mentally they probably should have gotten therapy way before it got this far. These women just had so much more going on than they can show in a short documentary. I felt the documentary was ok. I don’t know what the director was going for but the documentary was a bit fluff. I don’t think it really went as deep as it could have. I mean the stories were real but the Renfrew just seem like it wasn’t really helping that much. The fact that they would throw you out as soon as you’re insurance ran out, even though it’s clear you still need to be there, was disgraceful. It showed...
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...another. There are books that may share the same genre, point of view, writing style or even author but each story has something special to it. Two books that are separate but still hold a strong connection is “Forged By Fire” by Sharon M. Draper and “A Child Called It” by David Pelzer. Both text tackle the topic of domestic abuse among children. Child abuse is a heavy topic that is difficult for authors to write about due to its severity. Every year in The United States of...
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...John Adams once said, “Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” This means that killing in war is most felt when it could have been avoided. Justification for killing in war is a very debated topic. Some deem it as necessary for freedom, but what is necessary about killing another human being? Liam O’Flaherty was a short story writer from the early to mid-1900s. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015) disclose that his various novels and short stories guided the course for other authors in the literary Irish Renaissance. In his story, “The Sniper,” O’Flaherty stresses the importance of the human feeling soldiers obtain when amidts battle. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland in the middle of a heated Irish civil war between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Free Staters. An IRA sniper has been...
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...starters, his father’s eyes go “fa,r far away” in the middle of everyday tasks like eating or working. On pages 49-50, the author states that; “But what bothered him most even more was when his father’s eyes went away. Usually it happened when it didn’t cause any particular trouble. Sometimes during a meal his father’s fork would stop halfway in his mouth, just stop, and there would be a long pause while the eyes went far, far away.” This piece of evidence shows that Terry’s dad has traumatic flashbacks to his time in Vietnam while doing most everyday jobs, even while eating. They’re so mind-breaking to him he has to halt the task he’s currently doing to embrace the feeling of being in the warm, damp rice paddies. Second off, he has such horrible, distressing pain from his PTSD flashbacks to the point where when Terry’s dad hears a pop noise, he has to stop and army crawl to simulate being in the rice paddies.According to page 51, the author reveals that Terry’s father has a very frightening hallucination when he hears a loud...
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...Holly Pumphrey utilized art as dramatization when helping children make masks. These types of projects are easy-to-make and successful ways that can help children to gain a sense of power in their lives. They can also help children gain of sense of interaction using the idea that if the children can become comfortable with the puppets interacting with one another, maybe they can become comfortable interacting with other children. Pumphrey taught the children the mask-making process of using plaster gauze strips on a face mold. Once their masks hardened, they gave their masks an identity, and then painted and decorated them. They were also encouraged to write a story about the masks and to wear the masks and interact with the other children...
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...The Sniper Analysis War is a devastating topic, which brings forth much action and devastation. Because of this, Liam O’Flaherty made his short story “The Sniper” based around the Irish Civil War. During the time this piece of literature was written, the Irish Civil War was still in process. This event occurred after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, therefore ending the Irish War of Independence. In this war, the Irish Republicans fought against England to gain their independence. The Irish Free State was established by the Anglo-Irish Treaty. After the treaty was signed, the Free Staters and the Republicans had broken out in dispute. The Free Staters supported the treaty while the Republicans did not. While fighting against...
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