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1. What was the Renfrew Center and where is it located? The Renfrew Center is a residential facility located in Florida established for the treatment of women who struggle with eating disorders. They use a step system that grants patients less restrictions and more privileges as they continue to improve overtime while in the facility. This system is designed to help prevent the risk of relapsing and teach them mechanisms to live healthy productive lives on their own. 2. What was a typical day like at the Renfrew Center? A typical day at Renfrew consists of daily therapy sessions for patients. These sessions vary from individual and group. They also consisted of meal times, each patient was given specific dietary needs from their nutritionists. …show more content…
The documentary follows four women who are admitted into the facility for different forms of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The documentary was made to highlight how females deal with their body image and to bring awareness as to how body imagery can result into eating disorders and how the Renfrew Center helps these women to overcome this struggle. Brittany is a 15-year-old student who was admitted to Renfrew with liver damage, a low heart rate and hair loss after dropping from 185 to 97 pounds. She says that she was a compulsive overeater from the age of 8. She mentions how a bad body image and a need to be accepted by her peers were the motivation to her weight loss. This need to be accepted lead into compulsive dieting and anorexia from the age of 12. According to Brittany, her mother also has an eating disorder, and they would binge chew bags of candy together and then spit it out. Throughout the film Brittany is resistant to undergoing treatment, because she just wants to be thin. She tells her nutritionist she has purged twelve times since entering Renfrew and walks out of group therapy in tears when her dedication to …show more content…
She has a relapse before leaving which causes concern among the staff but still leaves although it was against their medical advice. In the end of the film we learn that she has another relapse and began to continue to rapidly lose weight. Shelly is a 25-year-old psychiatric nurse who admits herself into the center after ten hospitalizations. She enters the Center at the beginning of the film with a feeding tube that was surgically implanted in her stomach. She arrived weighing only 84.3 pounds, having been anorexic for six years and tube fed for five of those years. She has an identical twin, Kelly, who does not have an eating disorder. Along with her eating disorder she suffers from a dependence on various mood stabilizers and tranquilizers that she claims helped her to cope with her depression. She forms a close friendship with Polly, another patient in the Center. Throughout the film she has verbal altercations with some of the staff who accuse her of still purging. In the end of the film we earn that after discharge she lost 17 pounds, went back to being a nurse, is married and continues to struggle with her disorder. Polly has been at Renfrew for six weeks and admitted herself after a suicide attempt over two slices of
Additionally, although proclaiming his love for her, Lester becomes a negative influence on Kathy. Under the false sense of security he provides, Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, allows herself to start drinking again after an abstinence of three ye...
The intervention was the first time that I noticed an emotional reaction out of Rose, at the same time a coping mechanism of protecting herself from pain and disappointment was exhibited. One heartbreaking statement Renee made was that she had not given birth to children yet because she was afraid that she would be an absentee parent and cause her children pain like her mother had did her and Rose. It seemed as though listening to her daughters explain the pain they experienced that was a result of her addiction became a reality for Gloria, she could no longer live in denial. After much reluctance, Gloria agreed to go seek
Jackson lives in the southside of Chicago, which can prove to be a very rough neighborhood. They do not view mental illness well, and have likely never encountered a person with a psychological disorder as severe as Mrs. Jackson’s. Despite this, she does have some resources around her to assist her in recovery. The Gallagher family is a major resource for her. They support and love Mrs. Jackson and wants what is best for her, and state multiple times that they will do what they need to do to help her. This also applies to her daughter Karen, another resource who is willing to help Mrs. Jackson get better. She also some internal strengths that will prove to be helpful. Her kindness towards others drives her to seek help because she cannot be there for her friends and family like she should be. Along with this, her willingness to get better will prove to be an
While Jeannette’s father acknowledges that he is harming his family and tries to better himself, her mother never once tries to improve. She ignores all of her and her family’s problems, often times contributing more to the problem to benefit herself, worsening the situation for her children. The mother copes in selfish ways, disregarding her family in order to make her life more enjoyable. A perfect example is when the family is sitting in the living room without any food, trying to keep their minds off of hunger, when Brian, Jeannette’s brother, sees that the mother is discretely eating a chocolate bar. The mother tries to defend herself, saying that she’s a “sugar addict, just like [their] father is an alcoholic.” (Walls 174) The mother has never showed any signs of an addiction to sugar, and she’s clearly trying to get the kids sympathy for being selfish. She has behavior that is completely destructive for her family, and she needs to learn and practice better coping
My internship, Friends of Youth, is closely connected with Lakeside Milam Recovery Centers and I therefore decided that would be a great place to learn more about incase I needed to refer any of my clients to them. In order to gain more information about Lakeside Milam I spoke with the administrator, Dan Labuda and the director of the inpatient facility in Burien, Mary Fredrickson. Dan provided me information about Lakeside Milam as a whole, while Mary gave me an intake look at inpatient treatment and gave me a tour of Lakeside Milam.
Beth by all accounts was raised in a normal home and is a typical teenager. She became to experience an obsession with gaining weight and becoming fat. Although, Beth weight is normal for her height and age she is dieting and losing weight. She has a poor self-image and as a result has become dangerously thin. Beth refuses to admit she has a problem and as a result is suffering side effects including the loss of her menstrual cycle. Beth’s parents are concerned for their daughter’s health but have no idea how to help her. It is clear that Beth suffers from anorexia. Beth has an abnormal fear of gaining weight. This fear has led her to an unhealthy view of what she should weigh. The media and culture surrounding Beth are used as her justification for her fear of weight. Beth’s ability to ignore both the set point and setting point theory could be linked to the positive-incentive she had developed. Beth sees losing weight as a positive or desired outcome. These views as lead her from seeing any positive-incentive from eating. The fact that Beth has been obsessed with her weight for a while and that she is dangerously slim, would suggest that she has been limiting her food intake for a while. The fact that Beth has limited her intake of food for so long means that eating would only make her feel nauseated. This feeling only justifies her view of not e...
The next most pivotal stage in Susanna Kaysen’s hero’s journey is the call to adventure. This is when she first admits herself into McLean mental hospital. This introduction to a new world and and environment is a transition that is not easy for Susanna. Ultimately, the choice was hers to enroll to the mental hospital, but she was heavily encouraged by her psychologist to go. “‘I’ve got a bed for you,’ he said. “It’ll be a rest. Just for a couple weeks, okay?’” (Kaysen 8). Susanna agrees to go at the end of the week, on Friday, but he immediately he snaps back with “No. You go now,” (8). The
Laurie was a size fourteen at age eleven and weighed one-hundred fifty-five pounds. She went through elementary school being the kid that everyone called fat and never felt love from any of her peers. Even a counselor at her after-school YMCA program made an example of her to the other children. The teacher told all the children that she used to be as big as Laurie. Putting aside all the criticism from her fellow peers and teachers she found the courage and strength to lose weight. She began doing sit-ups and eating “healthier”. In all reality, she was eating less and less every day. She went from a size fourteen to a nine and then from a nine to a five. This all happened to her between summer and Christmas. By the following summer Laurie was a size double zero. During the following school year, she was called to the nurse’s office to be weighed and the scale read ninety-seven pounds. Laurie had become anorexic from the mentally abusing childhood she experienced from her peers.
In the last 50 years, eating disorders have become more and more prevalent in the United States. Society is starting to realize that they do not just affect teenage women, but men and children as well (Caralat, Camargo & Herzog, 1997; Lask, 2000). Solitaire is a novel originally published by Aimee Liu was she 25 years old. It was considered America's first memoir of anorexia, with Liu describing her battle with anorexia as a teenager in the sixties. Gaining is the sequel to this groundbreaking novel, following Liu as she talks with her fellow (former) eating disorder sufferers. In Gaining, Liu talks with one specific person who is my main focus; Hannah Winters. This essay can be considered a case study of Hannah, looking specifically at her life, symptoms, diagnoses, and comparing them to the research that has been done on similar topics. From her story, Hannah could be considered a poster child of eating disorders; following very closely to the diagnosis of anorexia given in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (APA, 2000) and dealing with many of the typical issues that those who have eating disorders deal with.
Since I know that you will be seeing Ann, I thought that I should send you some information, which I already know from the previous contacts that I had with her, and which I think will be helpful to you and to the therapy in general.
Since the day Cassie’s family moved across the street from Lia’s mother’s house, Lia and Cassie were best friends. They did everything together, and were basically joined at the hip! That was all fine and safe until one year when they were twelve. Cassie had just come back from summer camp, and it was Labour Day weekend. Everyone on their street was partying and celebrating. There was so much food around, and Cassie was stuffing her face. Lia had left her for a minute to get a sweater, and came back to find Cassie throwing up in the bushes. Turns out, the girls Cassie met at camp were weight obsessed. While there, Cassie learned all about purging, binging, and how to eat as m...
Formally known as Heritage Health & Rehabilitation Center, Heritage Healthcare Center is a 180 bed short term and long term skilled nursing facility located in Tallahassee, FL. It provides a number of services to the general public, like speech therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, short term acute care and long term care. This facility also offers a number of amenities that make each and every resident feel comfortable. There have been services, like a hair salon, activities department and trips to the mall all included in each patient’s rate at the facility.
At a very young age Parker was abused, mentally, physically, and sexually by her father. Whenever her father would have a bad day, he would take it all out on her. This would make Parker feel very unloved and unwanted in her parents’ lives. When her dad was arrested for all that he was doing, Parker was a mess. She had nowhere to go until Julie offered her the spare room in her house. With a literally scarred face and mind, of what family truly was, Parker
Working at my practicum location was eye opening and something that I enjoyed doing. I was allowed me to learn different therapeutic styles and use the interventions I had learned through school. The Betty Ford Center is located in Rancho Mirage, CA. The center is a license chemical dependency treatment hospital which treats all forms of substance abuse. The Betty Ford Center offers different levels of care from inpatient, residential, day treatment with and without structured housing, intensive outpatient level of care and therapeutic after care. The patients that come into our center are over the age of 18 and have a primary substance abuse or alcohol abuse issues. The Betty Ford Centers theoretical orientation is evidence based therapy. Their s strong sense of cognitive behavioral therapy mixed in with addiction therapy. Patients have to change behavior and patterns to help overcome their addition.
Ann’s case study certainly provided a wide variety of important details needed to properly asses Ann’s struggles, and her strength. I thought it was good that it included a bit of information taken from Ann’s point of view. For example, that her primary issue to herself was not the binge eating and laxative abuse, it was her depression. It would be key to bring Ann to realize that the binge eating and laxative abuse only adds to her depression and her poor self image of herself.