SOWK 2025 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating
14 Dec 2014
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Other specified feeding or eating disorder (osfed) module 1 know diagnostic criteria for diff. Eating disorder allows the medical professionals to identify problems and offer treatment while someone is not severely ill) Excluded from being defined as: serious mental illnesses , biologically based mental illnesses , serious emotional disturbances . It is important to remember that a small but significant number of males also experience eating disorders. However, girls or women experience the illness most. Eating disorders are considered psychiatric illnesses by the medical community. Physicians and psychologists can make a diagnosis in ontario: only a physician can assess someone"s health status and prescribe medication. * a good quiz question would be: identify the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa * It is equally distressing for the individual and can also result in compensatory behavior like vomiting or over exercising etc. Syrup of ipecac is a poison that makes people vomit.
