What special challenges does anorexia nervosa pose for family relationships?
What special challenges does anorexia nervosa pose for family relationships?
How does it affect patients in their roles as children, spouses, and parents?
2. What does anorexia nervosa have in common with substance-abuse disorders?
3. A lot of research has focused on the role of the media and standards of beauty
and the thin ideal in the etiology of anorexia nervosa. Do you think these fac-
tors are improving or worsening? Is there more or less pressure on adolescent
girls and young adult women today to be thin? What about pressures for
attractiveness on adolescent boys and young men?
4. No treatments have consistently been shown effective with adults with ano-
rexia nervosa. If you were a psychologist treating a college student with the
disorder, what treatment approach would you use? Why?
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