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The Psychological Disorder of Binge Eating

The writer discusses the psychological problem of binge eating, which has only recently been recognized as a significant problem c...

Treatment Options for Eating Disorders

In ten pages the components of bulimia, anorexia, and obesity eating disorders are examined in terms of treatment alternatives. T...

A Research Proposal Comparing Eating Disorders Among Homosexual and Heterosexual Men

In a research proposal that consists of twenty pages the question of whether or not homosexual men are more susceptible to such ea...

Examination of Eating Disorders

perfect? What we are seeking is information about is where that internal critic, gets out of hand, and becomes the food Gestapo, ...

College Women and Eating Disorders

much a part of college life as fraternity parties and football games. College-age women, in particular, are significantly more su...

Eating Disorders and the Patriarchy

In five pages this paper examines eating disorder increases and the role of the social patriarchy, particularly the mass media. T...

Depression and Eating Disorders

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that a relationship does exist between eating disorders and depression but that its ...

Eating Disorders and Teachers' Instructional Role

In eleven pages this paper discusses how to effectively educate students with eating disorders. Eight sources are cited in the bi...

Media's Role in Teenage Girls with Eating Disorders

A girl or young woman begins to systematically starve herself and sometimes exercise compulsively as well. Her weight falls and he...

Overview of Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder

sometimes revealing important information about the other identities (DSM-IV, 1994). The causes and signs of the disorder, then, ...

Article on the Risks Associated with Eating Disorders and the Effects of Family Environment and Gender Roles

suffering from them lack the capacity to understand the grave nature of the effects, but most theorists agree that anorexia nervos...

A Case Study in Anorexia

This paper introduces the new diagnostic criteria found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V and utilizes those criteria in ...

Bulimia and Anorexia

related to weight and body shape for females than it is for males" (p. 291). With anorexia or bulimia a girl, or young woman "begi...

Perfectionism and the Anxiety Component

In nine pages this paper argues that the individual desire for perfectionism leads to anxiety and manifests itself in eating disor...

Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman Overview and Film Review

depth, grace, and often touching humor with which the story is actually presented. Family, love, and tradition are all presented, ...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Type One Diabetes Screening Tool

This research paper reports on the development of a revised, validated screen tool for disorder eating among type one diabetes mel...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

of their unhappiness caused by the supposed defect. Phillips (1991) comments that "body dysmorphic disorder has been colorfully de...

Closer Look at Bulimia

In seven pages the most common of eating disorders is examined in terms of definition, who it affects and how along with physiolog...

Psychological Disorders: Categorization and Classification

is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...

Medication Adherence to Vitamin D and Calcium Supplements Quantitative Study

In fifteen pages this quantitative study overview considers vitamin D and calcium supplement adherence in young women with anorexi...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

Child and Adolescent OCD

In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

educators would wonder why so many children have this disorder. It would also seem that some would wonder if many of the individua...

Nutrition Analysis of Two Teens

Pre-teens and teenagers need to consume more calories than usual because of their growth spurt. Most of them do but the foods they...

Males vs. Females and Anorexia Nervosa

In a paper consisting of five pages males and females are compared in terms of the implications and manifestations of anorexia ner...

Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa are Compared Through Behavior Manifestations and Psychological Processes

In eighteen pages a discussion of eating disorders are discussed in terms of causes, etiologies, social and physical influences as...

Critique of Qualitative Study/Nutrition

their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Bone Density And Dieting: Professional

track and cross-country runners, that physicians need to take note of amenorrhea and/or a history of stress fracture, and have sus...