After birth, mothers with ED can encounter difficulty establishing positive eating behaviors for their children. It is evident therefore that eating disorders have the potential to negatively impact parenting and influence child development in a number of ways.12 Research shows that mothers with ED, particularly BED and BN disorders, commonly struggle with feeding amounts, restrictive or excessive. ED mothers also can experience difficulty accurately responding to physical hunger and satiety cues from their children. Research supports psychological and physical manifestations in result of altered infant feeding practices. Environmental and emotional factors impact the development of healthy eating patterns later in life. Dietary patterns during …show more content…
In a personal account of meal time interaction for mothers, it was suggested that food and mealtimes with children are an uncomfortable experience for women with eating disorder histories.13 Unsupportive responses are linked to ineffective emotion regulation in children, as well as emotion-focused feeding, and pressuring children to eat. It is also believed that mothers with ED are less likely to eat in front of their children. Theoretical integration of the emotion socialization and energy-intake regulation literatures may be crucial to understanding how feelings and food interact in the family system.21 Mothers with eating disorders were found to be more intrusive than controls during both mealtimes and play. The intrusiveness involved the mothers cutting across or disrupting (or both) what the infant was doing, as well as missing the infant’s cues.13 Parents categorized as authoritarian are demanding and directive with low levels of responsiveness. Permissive parents are less likely to be demanding and to require mature behavior, but exhibit high levels of responsiveness.1
Exposure to disordered feeding styles manifest physical and emotional effects. BN and BED mothers had children with higher weight-for-age. Although a general finding was that the children of mothers with eating disorder weighed less than controls and this was related to the amount of mealtime conflict.13 Subjects with BN had a birth weight below the 10th percentile significantly more often than controls, 30% vs 17%, respectively, as well as a birth length below the 10th percentile significantly more often than controls 17% vs 9%, respectively, and subjects with AN 17% vs 6%,
In Andre Dubus’ The Fat Girl, Louise is a young adolescent with detrimental eating habits and broken self-esteem. Her lack of self-confidence stems from her atrocious emotional habitat. Louise receives constant criticism from her mother regarding her weight. Her mother states “If you are fat the boys won’t like you.” That kind of ridicule being said by a mother to her 9 year old daughter creates an atmosphere of self-hatred and self-loathing. It is not only her familial environment that contributes so greatly to Louise’s destructive behavior. She has few friends and the one’s she does have agree she needs to change. The society in which she lives also is a contributing factor; the society is laden with stigmas positioned on appearance. That manner of daily ridicule only introverts Louise even more, causing her secretive, binge eating to deteriorate. In research conducted by Ursula Polli-Potts PhD, Links between Psychological Symptoms and Disordered Eating behaviors in Obese Youths, she explains the correlation between psychological, emotional factors and eating disorders in overweight adolescents. Potts states, “The association between binge eating symptoms and eating in response to feelings of distress and sadness with depression/anxiety symptoms corresponds with the results of other studies.” Potts and her colleagues took overweight adolescents and placed them into control and variable groups to ensure correct data. The outcome of their research was that there is a direct correlation with emotional binge eating and psychological factors. Although more extensive research needs to be implemented, Potts and associates were pleased with the results of the case studies.
Anorexia Nervosa has been a problematic disease many women suffer from. The article “The Slender Trap” was composed by Trina Rys who is a stay at home mother with a husband and one daughter. Rys writes the main reasons a woman may develop anorexia from. She states that the psychological pressures, expectations of friends and family and influences of the media all are factors when a woman is inflicted with the disease. I strongly agree with Rys persuading argument that anorexia could be caused by an unknown identity and the overall main focus of the ideal image of a woman. Although, I believe Rys requires a stronger argument on whether food restrictions executed by parents are a major step to developing the harmful illness. She seems to put emphasize on mainly women but does not shine any light on men.
Steiger, Howard. (1996). Familial eating concerns and psychopathological traits. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 19, 147-157.
The mentality of parents can lead to the downfall of their children 's health. Due to the lack of provision and support that they provide as a result of their mentality, their children who gravely need it remains obese and their condition usually exacerbates. In Jan Hoffman 's article, Parents ' Denial Fuels Childhood Obesity Epidemic, she makes it clear that parents who deny the condition of their children can drastically harm them even if it is unintentional. Since, parents with an ignorant mentality cannot provide their obese child with the help they desperately need to combat their obesity problems. She provides anecdotes of parents as well as the sentiments from individuals that developed obesity as a child and needed an intervention,
A child’s eating habits begin with the mother. Taste researcher Julie Mennella, PhD states “We’re finding that foods eaten during pregnancy and lactation can influence a baby’s willingness to accept those foods later.” A mothers influence on eating does not end with lactation, she should continue to model healthy eating. Mothers should make it a point to not allow their children to consume soda or overly sugary fruit drinks, instead offer water and more importantly milk.
Smolak, Linda, Michael P. Levine, and Ruth Striegel-Moore. "Media as Context." The Developmental Psychopathology of Eating Disorders: Implications for Research, Prevention, and Treatment. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1996. 235-53. Print.
The “Deadly Diet” seems to be a problem that is mostly common in females however in today’s day and age it is becoming a rising epidemic for our male population as well. Society is giving us standard that we think we have to live up to and many individuals are trying to accomplish this by fitting into that perfect category. Eating disorders are more common in middle to upper class families and less common in lower class families. Eating disorders can begin at any age however they seem to be more common in females ranging from ages ten to thirty. Peak ages seem to range from eleven to fifteen for females and fifteen to eighteen for males. (Bauer, 89)
There are many more reasons to developing an eating disorder other than the media. After looking at the affects of media and how researchers explore the concept of development: we will now focus on the other key opponents to the development. Ultimately, if a person’s life situation, environment, and/or genetics leave them open to an Eating ...
To help out with my research on childhood obesity I am creating this annotated bibliography. I am researching the health issues related to childhood obesity as well as the long term effects.
The stage of adolescence contains major changes which can bring stress, confusion, and anxiety. Feelings of self-consciousness, low self esteem and comparison with peers start occurring during this time. Along with the physical changes there is also hormonal and brain changes that affect the adolescent physically, mentally, emotionally, and psychologically. During this time a person can feel tremendous pressure to find their place in the world among a great deal of confusion (“Eating Disorders and Adolescence,” 2013). Body image concerns and peer pressure are heightened during the period of adolescence, and are potential risk factors in the development of an eating disorder. While eating disorders can affects males and females of all ages, the average age of onset for Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and disordered eating takes place during adolescence. These disorders are often a coping mechanism for people to attempt to gain control of their situation when they feel helpless among other aspects of life (“Eating Disorders and Adolescence,” 2013). Eating disorders in children and teens can lead to a number of serious physical problems and even death (Kam, n.d.).
With children as early as age 7 showing dissatisfaction with their body, and as young as 9 starting dieting, eating disorders are a serious issue in our society. Taking a look at perceptions, behaviors, and medical issues associated with the disorders of anorexia and bulimia, scholars have tried to categorize and find answers to the problems which certain adolescents suffer. In this paper I focused on the two major eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia.
Many efforts to address emotional eating have emphasized the importance of effective mood regulations skills to enhance one’s ability to tolerate stress or negative mood without using food to cope (Telch, Agras, & Linehan, 2001). Only within the past 20 years has research focused on applying more traditional learning processes to the development and maintenance of emotional eating. The primary difference between these perspectives, as exemplified by the Davidson model, is the de-emphasis of cognitions and motivations for eating (e.g., to escape negative mood) in the learning models, such as the classical conditioning model.
This problem has fueled debates and court cases. Most of the time parents of obese children are obese themselves, and if it is not a medical issue it could be a mental health problem that causes them to eat everything that they eat. “Defining childhood obesity as abuse would put a tremendous burden on obese children’s parents”. (Yam)
This study is about two sisters which were adopted by new parents due to neglecting and undernourishment in their early age impacted on their mental development by embedding into their unconscious mind. All eating disorders can be traced back to early years experiences, where conflict resolution is required in every stage of childhood being left uncompleted. The fear about being overweight can result in an attempt to avoid falling into the same issue again how Behaviourist Perspective suggested, because people are controlled by their environment, experiences and learning from the consequences of their
...ure that I discussion everything detail and all necessary information with mu children on the other hand I will figure a nice way to start a conversation with my daughter in order to approach her because girls are funny specially when try to talk about sex with them my niece always act funny whenever I asked if she has a boyfriend and if you do make sure you have condom somehow you are not going to have kids at age 18 year, maybe after you graduate from College she be like auntie stop ”’Lol! (pg.: 255) Author discussed that perhaps the first place to begin to intervene with young people prone to eating disorder is to examine how teens that accept and embrace their bodies reason and think. As one interview study suggested, these young people do to not deny their imperfections”, but they discount negative comments and focus on their physical pluses. ( Belsky,2013)