Chapter Eleven: Eating Disorders

A disorder marked by the pursuit of extreme thinness and by extreme weight loss

A pattern of anorexia where one reduces their weight by restricting their intake of food

A pattern of anorexia where one reduces their weight by forcing themselves to vomit after meals or by abusing laxatives or diuretics

The absence of menstrual cycles

A disorder in which people engage in binges and compensatory behaviors

A repeated episode of uncontrollable overeating

A theory that identifies several kinds of risk factors that are thought to combine to help cause a disorder

A person who has great difficulty putting descriptive labels on their feelings

A part of the brain that helps regulate various bodily functions, including eating and hunger

Part of the hypothalamus that produces hunger when its activated

Part of the hypothalamus that reduces hunger when its activated

Natural appetite suppressant

The weight level that a person is predisposed to maintain, controlled in part by the hypothalamus

When people diet and fall to a weight below their weight set point, their brain starts trying to restore that lost weight

The rate at which the body expends energy

A family system in which members are overinvolved with each others affairs and overly concerned about each others welfare

An intervention that uses a mixture of empathy and inquiring review to help motivate clients to recognize they have a serious eating problem and commit to making constructive choices and behavior changes

Helping clients to eliminate their binge-burge patterns and establish good eating habits

Require clients to eat particular kinds and amounts of food and then prevent them from vomiting

Treatment that is used to help improve interpersonal functioning

A program that offers weekly group sessions where members are guided through exercises that critique Western societys beauty ideals

When people adopt new attitudes that contradict their other attitudes and behaviors, theyll experience emotional discomfort that they seek to eliminate by changing their old attitudes and behaviors