Adolescents: Eating Disorders
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1. Describe the role of peer relationships on the development of feeding and eating disorders in adolescence.
2. Describe the role of social media and body shaming on feeding and eating disorders in adolescence.
3. Identify one website addressing the phenomenon of pro anorexia and describe the content (provide the webpage URL). Why might adolescents be drawn to this perspective?
4. Describe the biological, psychological, and social effects of feeding and eating disorders in adolescence.
5. Identify and explain a theoretical model that can be used when working with adolescents experiencing feeding and eating disorders.
6. Describe two approaches that you might find useful for addressing feeding and eating disorders among
adolescents.
Please use at least 1 of the sources attached for assistance, which includes this website.
https://anad.org/get-informed/body-image/body-image-articles/body-shaming/
Highly-visual social media and internalizing symptoms in adolescence: The mediating role of body image concerns
D. Marengo, C. Longobardi, M.A. Fabris, M. Settanni
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563218300037?via%3Dihub
The Selfie Generation: Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Early Adolescent Body Image
Ilyssa Salomon and Christia Spears Brown
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0272431618770809
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This posting discusses eating disorders in adolescence and gives two approaches to treating them.
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1. The role of peer relationships on the development of feeding and eating disorders in adolescence stems from the need of young people from sticking out in the crowd. To conform with peer accepted looks young people develop disordered eating behaviors. Peer pressure, to look in a certain manner, causes eating disorders. There are expectations from peers to look in a specific manner. Peer pressure is too overwhelming to meet these physical standards of beauty. These standards are important for adolescents to reach the beginning stages of puberty. Specifically, students who want to be liked by their friends (peers) often develop disordered eating behaviors to manage their appearance. The process is that young people develop a sense of body satisfaction from watching their friends and peers. This leads to dieting behaviors and bulimic symptoms. These include sudden weight loss, counting calories all the time, and purging. Peer pressure about physical looks occurs through spoken peer pressure, unspoken peer pressure, and negative peer pressure. Also, it is found that most teens with eating disorders learn their behavior from peers who are also suffering from eating disorders. The eating disorders are exacerbated through low self-esteem, lack of confidence, and loss of personal interests.
2. Social media plays an important role in feeding and eating disorders in adolescence. Young people need to match the societal mold that feeds in their social media feeds. For instance, Tik Tok and Instagram give them a spate of images as to how they should look. Social media ...
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