Eating Disorders

Question 1

complex mental health conditions characterized by
severe disturbances in eating behaviors and related
thoughts and emotions

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Eating Disorders

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It is a life-threatening eating disorder characterized by the client’s restriction of
nutritional intake necessary to maintain a minimally normal body weight

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Subgroups of Anorexia Nervosa (2)

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Restricting Subtype
Binge Eating and Purging subtype

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Lose weight primarily through dieting,
fasting, or excessive exercising

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Restricting Subtype

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Engage regularly in binge eating followed by
purging

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Binge Eating and Purging subtype

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Means consuming a large amount of food (far greater
than most people eat at one time in a discrete period
of usually 2 hours or less.

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Binge Eating

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It involves compensatory behaviors designed to eliminate food by means of self-induced vomiting or
misuse of laxatives, enemas, and diuretics

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Purging

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It is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent
episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate
compensatory behaviors to avoid weight gain, such
as purging, fasting, or excessively exercising.

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Bulimia

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It is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating but no regular use of inappropriate
compensatory behaviors, such as purging or
excessive exercise or abuse of laxatives

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Binge eating disorder

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morning anorexia,
evening hyperphagia /consuming
50% of daily calories after the last evening meal, and nighttime awakenings at least once a night) to consume snacks

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Night eating syndrome

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is an
obsession with proper or healthful eating

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Orthorexia nervosa

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Anorexia nervosa begins between the ages of

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14 & 18 years

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Bulimia nervosa Usually begins in

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late adolescence or early
adulthood; 18 or 19 years