Bulimia Nervosa: Diagnosis, Treatments, And Prevention Bulimia is a serious, multifaceted psychiatric illness that entails physiological, psychological, cultural, and developmental components (McGilley & Pryor, 1998). Over two million adolescent girls and young women in the United States alone are affected by this disorder (Lamb, 1999)
Bulimia Nervosa: Diagnosis, Treatments, And Prevention Bulimia is a serious, multifaceted psychiatric illness that entails physiological, psychological, cultural, and developmental components (McGilley & Pryor, 1998)
Overall, both pharmaceuticals and psychological interventions play a role in the treatment of bulimia. Cognitive behavioral therapy is the treatment of choice among clinicians, and new enhanced forms of CBT as well as more recently developed cognitive-affective therapies deserve further investigation (Mitchell et al
" Environmental factors, such as the presence of mothers that are overly concerned with physical attractiveness or fathers who criticize their weight may also be involved in the experience of bulimia (Lamb, 1999). Research has determined that the experience of sexual abuse may be related to bulimia (Preti et al
In total, it has been determined that bulimia affects 1 to 3% of adolescent females and young women, and the peak age of onset is between the ages of thirteen and twenty years (McGilley & Pryor, 1998). Although the occurrence of bulimia among males is rare in comparison to females, research has indicated that there is an increasing prevalence of adolescent males presenting with bulimia (Ray, 2004)
Comorbidity of all types complicates treatment, so it is therefore necessary that treatments for bulimia take the possibility of other psychiatric conditions into account (McGilley & Pryor, 1998). Research has established a significant relationship between bulimia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) (Roberts, 2006)
On the other hand, a number of studies suggest that families who encourage independence enable their adolescents to develop a clear identity. Individuation and positive self-concept during adolescence can best be achieved by continuous attachment to parents who provide consistent encouragement of autonomy while emphasizing connectedness (Demidenko et al
The second suggests that high levels of eating disorder symptoms are associated with general self-perception of unfriendliness, unkindness, and lack of emotionality. In another study (Garcia, et
The negative effect of anorexia nervosa on patients' long-term physical health is well documented. This condition most commonly affects women during the period of development of peak bone mass and the effects on the skeletal system can be severe and debilitating (Sim et al
About 50% of people who have been anorexic develop bulimia or bulimic patterns" ("Statistics: How many people have eating disorders?" ANRED, 2007). Other estimates range around 3% (Rowan, 2006)
However, while it may be true that a certain degree of specialization in mental health is indeed desirable, it must not dominate the clinical psychology issues of today. (Arnet, 2001) Today, students of clinical psychology are showing an appreciation for the scientific method, but at the same time, they are concentrating in mental health
On an average, it stated that about 1 out of every 200 teenage girls must suffer form some sort of eating disorder or the other, and this may be either bingeing, or starvation. (Beach, 1996) a
However, this does not mean that experimental methods must be denounced. (Erwin, 1999) 1
If this experience were to be internalized, he explained, and then the bulimic would find himself soothed internally. (Esplen; Garfinkel, 1998) II
The several professionals who were in the field at that time stated that they felt that the existing traditional graduate training programs for doctoral psychology programs were in fact quite insufficient and under developed, and that both clinicians as well as the faculty were being under trained. (Hodgson; Johnson; Ketring; Wampler; Lamson, 2005) Therefore, when the Boulder Model was created, it was with the intention of teaching both clinical as well as research skills to the students and practitioners of clinical psychology
One of the first cases of the world, as is popularly known today, is that of Charles Gilman, who was a school going child; with certain spelling difficulties. (Routh, 1996) After treatment for visual difficulties, Witner was convinced that the field of psychology would indeed help such cases where any form of psychological treatment would be able to help the individual with great success
Bergner, in 1997, happened to endorse and to agree with a definition that had been proposed earlier by Ossorio, in the year 1985, wherein he had stated that psychopathology can be best defined as a 'significant restriction' on the very abilities and faculties of an individual, whereby he cannot engage in any form of deliberate actions; rather, he is not in control of his actions, and as a result, he cannot take part in all the prevalent social practices of the time with any amount of success. (Stricker; Widiger; Weiner, 2002) In other words, it can be sated that clinical psychology is a broad field of research within the field of psychology, which applies the various psychological principles available, to the assessment or evaluation, the prevention or the preclusion, the amelioration and, finally, the rehabilitation and healing of the individual who has been undergoing psychological distress or trauma of any kind, so that the enhancement and the betterment of both his mental as well as physical well being is achieved at the end
The change from observation to experimentation The Psychological Clinic in the days of Lightner Witmer emphasized and laid stress on the change form mere observation to experimentation, and the children and cases that were brought in for treatment of their disorders would be diagnosed and then treated, and experimentation would be carried out wherever necessary. (Wilmer, 1996) What are new today in the field of experimentation in psychology are the areas known as 'artificial intelligence', bio psychology, physio psychology, and so on