1 / 10

Eating Disorders: The Risk to be Beautiful

Explore the importance of understanding eating disorders, their mortality and suicide rates, and the impact on adolescents. Discover the role of parental influence, attention impairments, and impulsivity in these disorders. Learn about the risks and consequences, including increased risk of smoking, suicide, depression, and more. Find out how parents can address and support their children's eating behaviors.

sallyd
Download Presentation

Eating Disorders: The Risk to be Beautiful

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Eating Disorders: The Risk to be Beautiful Trevor David Taylor Weber State University April 25, 2007

  2. Importance • Mortality Rate • Suicide Rate • Understand the disorder  Treatment

  3. Understanding Eating Disorders • Parental influence • Attention Impairment and Impulsivity • How are they different from peers?

  4. Celio, Bryson, Killen, and Taylor • Are adolescents harmed when asked weight control behavior and attitude questions? • Baseline and follow up • Results: • Baseline group reported fewer risky weight control behaviors than the follow up group. • Discussion: • There was no evidence of a negative effect when asking student about weight control behaviors. • Limitations: • Attention

  5. Rosval, Steiger, Bruce, and colleagues • Sample: 114 women • Measure: • Barratt Impulsivity Scale • Dimensional Assessment of Personal Pathology-Basic Questionnaire • Go/No-Go

  6. Rosval, Steiger, Bruce, and colleagues

  7. Lock, Reisel, Steiner • How different are they (those with eating disorders) different from their peers? • 1769 High School Students • Self-report health survey • Emotional • Medical • Physical Health

  8. Is there a difference? • Results: • Adolescents with eating disorders are at an increased risk for developmental, emotional, and physical health problems.

  9. Males and females with Eating Disorders are at a greater risk of: Smoking Frequent thoughts of Suicide Depression Stress or severe anxiety Self harming behaviors History of sexual abuse Sleeping problems Headaches Risks of Eating Disorders

  10. Conclusion: • Parents need to speak with their children about their eating behaviors. • Attention Impairments • Depressive symptoms • Which came first the chicken or the egg?

More Related