PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Motivational Interviewing, Binge Eating Disorder, Eating Disorder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

Moivaional interviewing and behaviour change among adolescents (with a focus on anorexia) Since deci wrote book twenty years ago there is form of treatment according to what he talked about following autonomous moivaion. This form has become known as moivaional interviewing. Serious problem as 13/14 year old in body waning you to stay up later but have to wake up at 6 because of school. Many teenagers going to sleep at 12/1 has physical and psychological consequences over course of long school year. Many of us respond to this by sleeping in on weekends but this contributes to problem because makes you stay up later on weekend nights so throws cyclical patern of. Movement to go into high schools to see if health professionals can change students" behavior and go to sleep earlier. Idea of trying to go to sleep early we resist this.