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Assignment: Eating Disorders
Cultures idealizing thinness, pressure from peers to fit in, and constant images of bodily perfection shown by mass media, along with additional physiological and psychological factors, can combine to create the perfect storm for adolescents struggling with eating disorders. For this Assignment, choose one peer-reviewed research study about eating disorders that focuses on a minority group of adolescents. Consider connections between physiological development, adolescence, and eating disorders.
Submit a 2- to 4-page paper for which you articulate a position on eating disorders in adolescent girls from diverse racial and cultural experiences. Explain how the position is related to the biological and/or physiological development as well as psychological development of adolescent girls. Further, explain how such findings can inform evidence-based social work practice. Please use the Learning Resources and the research study you identified to support your answer.
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Eating Disorders
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Eating Disorders
Eating disorders among adolescents are on the rise due to individual and environmental factors.
The individual factors entail the psychological and biological elements, while environmental factors
constitute geographic location or the direct social surroundings such as family, peer groups, sociocultural norms, and mass media. The paper investigates different themes for eating disorders among
adolescent girls.
The Situation of Eating Disorders in Adolescent girls
Adolescent girls adopt eating habits due to sensitivity towards the changes in their body size,
shape, and weight. They revert to dietary adjustments that threaten their nutritional status,
psychological, and social developments. Factors such as peer pressure, social media influence,
family environment, and body image concern contribute to dissatisfaction in their body appearance.
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