Feeding And Eating Disorders Case Study

For this assignment I am choosing to gain some added expertise on feeding and eating disorders. From first-person accounts, I will be describing how a client might be feeling as he or she enters therapy, describing the individual’s experience of the illness and what it might be like to be a client in this circumstance. I will also be discussing family and cultural factors that might be related to the origin of the disease such a genetics, environment, race/ethnicity, and income/social class, as well as the course of the illness and treatment. Because family plays a role in the life of a loved one affected by a mental disorder, I will be considering both positive and negative views of the family’s role in a mental illness generally and my selected disorder specifically. Through research, I will describe how family members might feel about their relative’s behavior and symptoms, how they try to help and how they can potentially make things worse. To conclude, I will be developing a treatment plan for the client.
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The most common eating disorders, which are recognized in the DSM-5, are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. According to the National Eating Disorder Association, thirty million individuals in the United States suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their life. There are many health consequences related to eating disorders, such as weakened muscles or loss of muscle function, brittle bones and organ failure. The number of individuals developing an eating disorder is on the rise, with the mortality rate of those suffering being the highest of any mental