Childhood Obesity

Body image, Bulimia nervosa, Eating disorder

Morgan Stephenson
PHS 201
November 14, 2012
Section 3- Recommendations: What works to reduce negative health impacts?
After determining the risk factors that can generate eating disorders in young females, the next crucial step is to develop a plan of action. The key ingredient to halting these vial diseases is recommendations. A recommendation is a summary of the evidence of which interventions work to reduce the health impacts and indicate whether actions should be taken (Riegelman, 27). There have been numerous past studies done on eating disorders that prove that recommendations do reduce negative health impacts. From looking at past studies, the most successful interventions for eating disorders have been cognitive-behavioral therapy, collaborative interventions, and internet-based programs. These previous studies have proven that implementing interventions will decrease the negative impact of eating disorders in adolescent women.

One of the most well known interventions for eating disorders is cognitive-behavioral therapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and what we do (“Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy”). According to a study from 2007, this type of therapy is currently the treatment of choice for bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorders in young girls (Wilson, 199). Mainly, this therapy assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and negative emotions (Wilson, 200). The treatment focuses on changing an individual’s thoughts (cognitive patterns) in order to change his or her behavior and emotional state (Wilson, 201). Therefore, this type of intervention would be tertiary because prevention would occur after recognizing that someone has become victim to an eating disorder. The role of the tertiary level would be to reverse the course of the eating disorder, prevent further complications, and return the patient to a...
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