SOWK 2025 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Motilin, Salvador Minuchin, Conflict Avoidance
Document Summary
1. eating disorders can be viewed as multi-determined disorders in their prognosis, treatment and risk factors. Personality traits such as temperament, low self esteem, perfectionistic and or obsessive personality can put the person at risk. A negative self-schema that has been in memory through the formative years places adolescence at a higher risk of developing these disorders because they have few positive self-schemas available to deal with life stressors. Sociocultural/socioeconomic factors, and culture in the west influence the onset of eating disorders. Thinness being the aesthetic ideal for women/adolescence in the western world, where cultures value thinness, also adds to the risk. What they put in their mouth and the way their body looks in terms of size. A lack of self-identity and negative self schema, lack of feeling adequate and loss of control over their environment is a recipe for eating disorder.
