The common psychological characteristic shared by individuals with eating disorders is:
a. noncompliance
b. protracted grieving
c. self-concept disturbance
d. self-care deficit
C
Self-concept disturbance is the most common psychological characteristic shared by both clients who are anorexic and clients who are bulimic. Specifically, both clients who are anorexic and clients who are bulimic have a distorted body image. In the case of clients who are anorexic, this distorted body image may cause an individual to see him- or herself as being fat, regardless of how thin or emaciated the client becomes as a result of the disorder.
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