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Eating Disorders

Student Course Evaluation Form

We constantly strive to improve the quality and usefulness of our Internet study courses toward your continuing education. We ask that you fill out this questionnaire as part of the course assignment. This will allow us to monitor the quality of our program and make it responsive to your needs.

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Please provide the following contact information:

  • Category: Eating Disorders
  • Evaluation of the learning experiences provided by the Internet study course completed: (Check one letter: A = Excellent, B = Good, C = Fair, D = Unsatisfactory)
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  • Are there other subjects areas that would interest you.

Learning Objectives

After completion of the course you’ll be able to:

  1. Describe the prevalence of eating disorders in the United States and Identify population groups most affected by them.
  2. Describe the causes of eating disorders in terms of personal, genetic and environmental, biological, psychological, family, social, and trigger factors.
  3. Describe the behavioral patterns of someone with an eating disorder in terms of food, appearance, exercise, thinking and emotions.
  4. Describe the medical complications of eating disorders.
  5. Describe the etiology of anorexia nervosa and list its 5 typical signs.
  6. Describe bulimia nervosa and list its 5 typical signs.
  7. List 6 signs of binge eating disorder.
  8. Distinguish between bulimia and binge eating disorders.
  9. Identify diagnostic characteristics of binge eating disorder.
  10. Describe the complications of binge eating.
  11. Describe the treatment options for someone with a binge eating disorder.
  12. Define six most common eating disorders, provide their characteristics and danger signs and identify the population group affected.
  13. Distinguish between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
  14. Provide the diagnostic characteristics and nursing interventions for each of the six eating disorders.
  15. Identify eating disorders that are officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association.
  16. Explain the national obsession with being thin and the impact advertising and entertainment media have on young men and women.
  17. Provide at least 4 nursing interventions to a teenager who may be dangerously dieting and exercising to be thin.
  18. Describe the treatment protocol for eating disorders and present treatment options in terms of hospitalization, medication, and therapy.
  19. Explain the complex interaction of emotional and physiological problems in eating disorders.
  20. Describe the role of individual psychotherapy, family therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of eating

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