Eating Disorder Treatment Facilities
There are many different eating disorder treatment facilities for eating disorder resources to find various cures and therapies for things like binge eating, bulimia, anorexia and many more eating disorders.
Many of these eating disorder treatment facilities offer specialized care for all types of issues that people find themselves having to deal with.
There are many of these eating disorder treatment centers all over the country so it is important to take your time and do some research on which place you fell will be of the most benefit to yourself or whoever you are looking for that has the eating disorder. But how do you find out about different places? Well, since you are on the internet I would say that you are at the right place to look.
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Adult Women (age 25+) with Chronic Anorexia Nervosa
There is no agreed upon definition for what constitutes “chronic” anorexia nervosa. Among those that have been offered are: the affected person has been suffering from an eating disorder for 10 or more years (Noordenbos et al, 1998); the presence, for 5 or more years, of strong anorexic symptoms (Levenkron, 2000); and onset before age 25 and continuation of the illness after age 25 (Mynors-Wallis et al, 1992). In part due to this discrepancy, there are no specific statistics on the prevalence of chronic anorexia nervosa in adult women. It is documented, however, that 2% of adult women meet current diagnostic criteria for anorexia or bulimia nervosa (APA) and the lifetime prevalence for anorexia is women is 3.7%. Up to 25% of all patients with anorexia can be considered chronic (Hsu, 1996). Read the rest of this entry »
The Social Motivation for Eating Disorders among Women
Can social motivation theories be applied to disordered eating, defined by behaviors, which a person’s engagement in generally occurs in isolation? I argue yes, that eating disorders occur in the context of interpersonal relationships as much as intrapersonal factors and their development is in part motivated by the same conditions as other behaviors considered the traditional realm of social psychology.
Normative Social Influence
It is often said that Calvin Klein and Hollywood are the culprits and the emaciated waif look propagated by the media has caused many women to tale-spin into the world of an eating disorder. While the images of child-like women have obviously contributed to an increased obsession to be thin, it is not quite so simple. Read the rest of this entry »
