Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bulimia Nervosa
- Symptomology
- Somantic
- Damage to esophagus from vomiting
- Wearing away of tooth enamel.
- Swollen salivary glands
- Stomach or intestinal problems
- Heart problems
- Cognitive
- Negative self and body image
- Low self esteem
- Perfectionism
- Behavioural
- Binging and purging
- Use of laxatives
- Excessive exercise
- Periods of fasting
- Affective
- Extreme concern for
body shape and weight
- Out of control binge eating
- Feeling ashamed and guilty of overeating
- Fear of gaining weight.
- Etiology
- BLOA
- Kendler et al 1991:
Studied 2000 female
twins & found a
concordance rate of
23% in monozygotic
twins & 9% in
dizygotic twins
- Carraso 2000 :
Found bulimic
patients had lower
levels of serotonin,
causing this to be a
possible cause.
- CLOA
- Bruch 1962: Body-Image distortion hypothesis
Individuals with an eating disorder have
delusions they are fat.
- Polivy & Herman 1985 :
Cognitive inhibition, All or
nothing judgement,Binge
eating
- SCLOA
- Media, Celebrities & Propaganda
- Social Pressure & Culture
- Treatment
- Biomedical: SSRI is used to cure depression
that is a cause factor for binging and
purging - Serotonin levels are increased
without altering the noradrenaline levels
- Group therapy
- McKisack et al. 1997 :
Found that if patients
had similar
characteristics the
therapy was longer
and dealt with
intensive sessions
plus additional
treatment
components.
- Schmidt et al. 2007:
Compared a test of
CBT to family therapy
in a group of 85
adolescents. It was
also said that this
resolves the disorder
faster than other types
of treatments.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy addresses
"the cognitive aspects of bulimia, such as
obsession with body weight, dichotomous
thinking (an all-or nothing view of one-self)
and negative self-image in combination
with behavioral components of the disease
such as binge eating and vomiting”
- Wilson 1996:
Found CBT was
very successful,
and that if
medication, such
as Prozac, and
CBT where
combined as a
whole treatment,
the success rate
of recovery would
we doubled
- Eating disorder
- Prevalance
- General Population Rate
2% of adults (can be
considered as age rate)
- Cultural Rates
Similar prevalence
rates from US
found in Japan,
Norway and some
European countries
More common in
industrialized and
metropolitian
regions
- Gender Rates
Female:Male:: 10:1
2-3 % of women
0.02-0.03% of men
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