Identify and describe the assessment and treatment of eating disorders
What will be an ideal response?
- major approaches to assess eating disorders include interviews, self-reported questionnaires, self- monitoring, and physical assessment
- treatments for eating disorders share common aims that include returning to a healthy weight, increasing motivation to restore healthy eating patterns, providing education about healthy eating, eating recognition of problematic thoughts feelings and behaviors, and enlisting support from others
- controlled weight gain and medication are prominent biological approaches to treating eating disorders
- family and cognitive-behavioral therapies are the most effective psychological treatments for eating disorders
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