Lieuallen says that she has seen more students for eating disorders this year than ever before, an increase she attributes to rising stress. At eating disorder seminar, hope and compassion Psychology, not food, is often at the heart of the problem Allison Grebe would look in the mirror and despise what she saw. It was pure self-hatred. Natural history of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors over a 6-year period. Although rates of specific bulimic behaviors decreased over time, mean scores on eating disorder attitude scales tended to increase.
Findings challenge the commonly held belief that disturbed eating attitudes decline with age.
Predictors of success or failure of transition to day hospital treatment for inpatients with anorexia nervosa. Clinicians are under increasing pressure to transfer inpatients with anorexia nervosa to less intensive treatment early in their hospital course. This study identifies prognostic factors clinicians can use in determining the earliest time to transfer an inpatient with anorexia to a day hospital program. The role of the personality in the feeding behavior disorders Personality disorders are common in eating disorders and preliminary reports indicate that this type of disorders implicate a poor prognosis in anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Cluster C personality disorders, particularly avoidant and dependent personality disorder are the most frequent in anorexia nervosa.