DSM-5 Criteria
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Symptoms & Effects
Causes & Research
Treatment & Recovery
100

This DSM-5 Criterion involves behaviors like fasting, vomiting, or excessive exercise to achieve a significantly low body weight.

Criterion A of Anorexia Nervosa

100

Andie's coach does this to all the gymnasts, a practice discussed in the Kerr et al. research.

Weighing/public weigh-ins

100

What behavioral symptom is it when Andie constantly skips her breakfasts and barely eats greens

Dietary restriction

100

The study by Kerr et al. found that comments from this person were most linked to disordered eating in gymnasts.

The coach

100

What is the first goal of treatment for Anorexia Nervosa, addressing the immediate medical danger?

Weight restoration/nutritional rehabilitation

200

This is the specific type for Anorexia Nervosa when an individual engages in self-induced vomiting.

Binge-Eating/Purging Type

200

Andie frequently does this in front of the mirror, demonstrating body checking.

Scrutinizing body/body checking

200

Andie's irritability are a result of this physiological effect of starvation.

Starvation-induced irritability

200

Andie's sport is an example of this type of sport, which carries a higher risk for eating disorders.

Aesthetic sport

200

What is the name of this evidence-based therapy, often used for adolescents, involves parents taking a central role in refeeding?

Family-Based Therapy

300

This DSM-5 Criterion describes an intense fear of gaining weight, even when underweight.

Criterion B of Anoriexia Nervosa

300

Who teaches Andie self-induced vomiting? 

Andie's friend Leslie teaches her this specific purging behavior.

300

The ICD-11 specifically mentions this as a sign of disturbed self-perception, which Andie does constantly.

Repeatedly checking body shape in mirrors

300

The Kerr et al. study found that many coaches decided if a gymnast needed to lose weight based on this alone.

Visual appearance

300

Name the type of therapy which helps individuals challenge and change cognitive distortions about body image and self-worth.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

400

What is the mortality rate of Anorexia Nervosa?

Mortality: the crude mortality rate (CMR) ≈5% per decade. Death most commonly results from medical complications associated with the disorder itself or from suicide.  

400

This physical consequence of starvation happens to Andie during a championship.

Andie's fainting

400

This cognitive distortion is revealed when Andie thinks her problems are "because I'm fat".

It is undue influence of body weight on self-evaluation (DSM-5 Criterion C)

400

What is perfectionism? 

This psychological factor, common in athletes, involves a belief that one must be flawless.

400

What is a person's lack of insight in Anorexia Nervosa?

The ICD-11 describes this as a "persistent inability to recognize the seriousness" of one's low weight.