PSY 383 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Binge Eating

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 383
• Professor: O' Connor

Document Summary

Pleasurable and helps to cope with stress. Death rates for all cancers and cardiovascular disease. Causes: genetics, forceful feeding style, sedentary lifestyle. Depends on the number and size of an individual"s fat cells. Factors that influence obesity: social status and culture, depression, high neuroticism, extraversion, and impulsivity, social networks, siblings and friends who are obese. Yo-yo dieting: successive cycles of dieting and weight gain: enhances the efficiency of food use, lowers metabolic rate. Set point theory of weight: each individual has an ideal biological weight, which cannot be greatly modified. Affects eating habits of different people in different ways. Stress eating: practice of eating in response to stress: tied to anxiety and depression. Cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt: screening, self-monitoring, stimulus control, controlling eating, self reinforcement, controlling self-talk, adding exercise, stress management, social support, relapse prevention. Training parents on sensible meal-planning and eating habits. Developed due to the pursuit of thinness. Highest disability and mortality rates of all behavioral disorders.