PSY341H1 Chapter 13: psy341 - chapter 13 eating disorders.doc
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1: important to note that not all who diet have eating disorder. Obesity childhood obesity chronic medical condition characterized by excessive body fat. Also limited opportunities for physical activities leptin deficiency resistant to effects leptin also decreases with dieting increases hunger and slows metabolism causes: genetics, environment. Does not involve putting child on diet risk of medical problems. Increase children"s physical activity: foster greater sense of perceived control, minimal assistance of parents/therapists let them do it themselves schools education. Mothers more insecurely attached, passive and confused, intensely angry when discussing past and current attachment relationships or dismissed the attachment as unimportant/non-influential: malnutrition. May be difficulty nurturing due to temperament of illness early ftt affect physical growth but no evidence that it affects future cognitive functioning biological outcome of child abuse/neglect. Eating disorders of adolescences two periods of onset: early passage into adolescence, movement from later adolescence to young adulthood.
