Exam 11: Focus On Enhancing Your Body Image

The body image continuum developed by researchers at the University of Arizona

List at least three behaviors or actions that indicate a person has a healthy approach to eating.

Compulsive exercisers engage in excessive exercise but can calmly deal with days when they cannot complete the amount of exercise they perceive as adequate.

What is the most important thing to remember when talking with a friend about his or her eating disorder?

Which of the following best defines body image?

The majority of adults

Individuals with binge-eating disorder usually maintain a normal weight.

Karen is extremely dissatisfied with her body shape. She diets constantly and has undergone three cosmetic surgeries to alter her facial structure. Karen is most likely suffering from

Bulimia nervosa has the highest death rate of any psychological illness.

Eating disorders affect people of all ages.

Family, community, and cultural groups strongly influence the way we see ourselves.

Rita doesn't like the way she looks and complains to her friend Sue that she has the biggest thighs in town. She is ashamed to wear a bathing suit at the beach. Rita has

Some body image disorders have been linked to differences in the brain's ability to regulate

People who see only negatives when they look in the mirror and feel separated from their body are in which phase of the body image continuum?

Individuals with low self-esteem are at an increased risk for eating disorders.

Anyone can be slender and attractive if they work at it.

Treatment for eating disorders usually involves long-term hospitalization and drug therapy.

Individuals with anorexia nervosa usually recognize when they have become too thin.

Night-eating syndrome is one of the conditions grouped under the designation of eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS).

The female athlete triad occurs when a woman burns stores of fat for energy to the point that levels of which critical hormone decline?