Eating Disorders, social science homework help

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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 detailed 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.

Must have 4 references including weekly readings and peer reviewed reference.

Reference:

AbigailNatenshon.com. (2011). Abigail H. Natenshon: Empowered parents. Retrieved from http://www.abigailnatenshon.com/

Cheney, A. M. (2011). Most girls want to be skinny: Body (dis)satisfaction among ethnically diverse women. Qualitative Health Research, 21(10), 1347–1359. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Zastrow, C. H., & Kirst-Ashman, K. K. (2016). Understanding human behavior and the social environment (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

    • Chapter 6 (pp. 295-332)

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Eating disorders create disturbances in normal eating. These diseases are very serious and

often times will be fatal. The person will either suffer with anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating
disorder. Eating disorders are not caused by one specific factor but are the results of a multiple of
factors. These disorder emerge as a result of physiological, psychological, and environmental
factors as well as the negative influence of the media. In the article “Media and Cultural
Influences in African-American Girls’ Eating Disorder Risk” the authors investigates the
relationship between the media and cultural influences in eating disorder and their impact on the
development in African-American adolescent females.
Eating disorders impact men and women but the greatest impact is on adolescent girls.
According to Jones & Cook-Cottone (2013) survey research conducted on African American
females adolescents showed eating orders, such as bulimia and anorexia, are rare but binge
eating disorder (BED), is more commonly found in this racial group. BED involves the
consumption of large amounts of food as a result of a lack of control (Jones & Cook-Cottone,
2013). The research connected cultura...


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