PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Family Therapy, Insomnia, Operant Conditioning
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2: comorbidity is high prone to depression, panic disorder, and social phobia for both gender but women had higher risk for mania, agoraphobia, and substance dependence, drug use ties to bulimia nervosa more. An: begins in late adolescence of early adulthood, 70% recover, although 10% remain fully symptomatic. Etiology of eating disorders: genetics, role of brain, socio-cultural pressures to be thin, role of family, and environmental stress. Genetics: 1st degree relatives of young women with an are 4x more likely than avg to have disorder, heritable greater concordance for monozygotic twins. Gender influences: greater prevalence in women because more heavily influenced by cultural ideal of thinness women valued more for appearance but men gain esteem more for their accomplishments. Cross-cultural studies: more common in industrialized societies us, can, australia, europe, china: fear of fat, shown tv to group of girls who never seen models before then after wanted to change to look like them.
