Statistics about Adolescents
A transitional stage of physical and psychological development that occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood.
Adolescence
Feeding disorders arise in the first __ years of life. They involve food refusal or extreme selective eating.
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Adolescents with ED’s often fail to accomplish other developmental tasks of adolescents, such as:
Inability to develop autonomy
Inability to develop and use formal operational thought processes
Inability to experience bodily sensations as "normal" and "valid"
Unrealistic perceptions of body size
Preoccupation with weight and food
Failure to normalize eating and exercise patterns
Unrealistic expectations for themselves
Difficulty accomplishing the normal psychosocial tasks of adolescence
Decreases in ________ levels in the brain are associated with depression, Impulsivity, and aggression.
Seretonin
Current estimates suggest that ______ _______ may be occurring in 3-% of girls and in 16% of boys.
Disordered eating
While ______ ________ typically develop in adolescence or early adulthood, they can also develop in late childhood.
_________ is viewed as the age where one has the greatest risk for developing an eating disorder.
Adolescence
_______ is the most common type of disordered eating.
Dieting
_______ is the most prevalent EDs among patients admitted to child and adolescent treatment settings.
Anorexia
Early onset eating disorders tend to be atypical and children often have prior history of ______ _______.
feeding difficulties
Do males or females typically show greater weight concern in adolescence?
Females
Dieters are __ times more likely to develop an eating disorder than non-dieters.
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The utilization of a _____________ team is the most appropriate way to support clients and caregivers in ED treatment.
Multidisciplinary
Name an example of atypical eating disorder symptoms.
Selective eating, pervasive refusal, food avoidance emotional disorder
Males are more dissatisfied with their height and lack of ___________.
Masculinity
_______ causes fatigue, moodiness, irritability, and poor academic and athletic performance.
Dieting