PSY 30312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Preadolescence, Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, Dsm-5
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The refusal to maintain a minimally normal body weight. If you are in a healthy weight range, then you do not meet criteria: criteria: Failure to maintain or meet expected weight gain based on age and on height below 85% of expected weight. Intense fear of gaining weight extreme drive for thinness. Disturbance in body image, denies seriousness of low weight: specify based on methods used to restrict calorie intake: Binge-eating/purging type: persistent pattern of binge eating or purging or both. If you are not engaging in binge eating, but still do compensatory behaviors, then you qualify. Eat relatively small amounts of food and commonly purge more consistently than those with bulimia. Bulimia nervosa: more common than anorexia, main feature= binge-eating, but no change in weight, body weight not below expected levels, criteria: Eating, in a discrete period of time an amount of food that is larger than what most individuals would eat in a similar period of time.
