A Case of Eating Disorder (Essay Sample)

A Case of Eating Disorder
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A Case of Eating Disorder
Information that needs to be documented and kept in Josephine’s medical record include she’s 20 years of age, has an eating disorder, and that she has been thin all her life. Other vital information that needs to be recorded include: that upon eating fried food she run’s 2-3 miles or force herself to vomit; if she has classes later in the day she does not eat dinner or she goes ahead to eat one meal per day; upon counting her calories and realizes that she has more than 1200 calories, she gets mad and ends up exercising more thus being exhausted, and that she has only gained 25 pounds over a span of 5 years(110-125 pounds), and yet she wants to get back to having 110 pounds or less.
Josephine’s health and nutritional information could be provided to health professional particularly a mental health expert who may be able to determine what might be the reasons as to why she might be having an unhealthy attitude about food. Upon realizing this, the mental health professional might go ahead to determine what is the best therapy that might be offered to Josephine that will enable her to make progress when it comes to eating habits.
There are some motivational techniques that the nutritional counsellor may use including; listening to the client and allowing her to express herself fully without many interruptions. The nutritional counsellor should go ahead to identify the client’s positives and strengths and capitalize on them, in Josephine’s case the counsellor should acknowledge that Josephine takes multivitamins and encourage her to continue doing do. The counsellor goes further and lets the client set her goals including the number of calories that they wish to be taking and the amount of weight they would wish to add. The counsellor then collaborates with the client and comes up with ways that will enable the client to achieve his goals ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61748-7", "ISBN" : "1474-547X", "ISSN" : "1474-547X", "PMID" : "19931176", "abstract" : "This Seminar adds to the previous Lancet Seminar about eating disorders, published in 2003, with an emphasis on the biological contributions to illness onset and maintenance. The diagnostic criteria are in the process of review, and the probable four new categories are: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and eating disorder not otherwise specified. These categories will also be broader than they were previously, which will affect the population prevalence; the present lifetime prevalence of all eating disorders is about 5%. Eating disorders can be associated with profound and protracted physical and psychosocial morbidity. The causal factors underpinning eating disorders have been clarified by understanding about the central control of appetite. Cultural, social, and interpersonal elements can trigger onset, and changes in neural networks can sustain the illness. Overall, apart from studies reporting pharmacological treatments for binge eating disorder, advances in treatment for adults have been scarce, other than interest in new forms of treatment delivery.", "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Treasure", "given" : "Janet", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Claudino", "given" : "Ang\u00e9lica M", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" }, { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Zucker", "given" : "Nancy", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container-title" : "Lancet", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issue" : "9714", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2010" ] ] }, "page" : "583-593", "title" : "Eating disorders.", "type" : "article-journal", "volume" : "375" }, "uris" : [ "/documents/?uuid=4bd02bcd-6df7-447d-9b20-6d4390340b2b", "/documents/?uuid=a9cfda78-f96e-4ceb-a17a-7688fdecdf2d" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Treasure, Claudino, & Zucker, 2010)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Treasure, Claudino, & Zucker, 2010)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Treasure, Claudino, & Zucker, 2010)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Treasure, Claudino, & Zucker, 2010). The counsellor should go ahead to point out the clients’ progress every time they meet up.
Schedules should be convenient to the client. At least three sessions per week for the first eight weeks, two sessions for the next seven weeks and one session for the last five sessions of the twenty-session schedule. Some of the information that can be collected during follow-ups include how many calories the client is eating per day, the client’s weight, the number of vomiting episodes and the number of meals the client is consuming on the daily basis.
The previously set goals can be assessed by putting the current performance alongside the set goals. This will enable the counselor to gauge accurately if there is any progress that is being made, whether the client is improving or regressing. It is from this information that the counsellor will collaborate with the client in coming up with new measures that will enable the client to achieve her goals quicker. For example if Josephine set a goal of eating a certain amount calories say 1400 calories per day, but she ends up eating less...