Feeding & Eating Disorders: Definitions & Criteria for Pica, Rumination, Avoidant/Restrict, Quizzes of Social Work

Download Feeding & Eating Disorders: Definitions & Criteria for Pica, Rumination, Avoidant/Restrict and more Quizzes Social Work in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Feeding and Eating Disorders DEFINITION 1 - Are characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating or eating related behavior that results in the altered consumption or absorption of food and that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning.-Pica- Rumination Disorder- Avoidant /Restrictive Food intake disorders- Anorexia nervosa- Bulimia nervosa- Binge-Eating Disorder TERM 2 Pica DEFINITION 2 Diagnostic Criteria:1. Persistent eating of nonnutritive, nonfood substances over a period of at least 1 month2. The eating of nonnutritive, nonfood substance is inappropriate to the developmental level of the individual.3. The eating behavior is not part of a culturally supported or socially normative practice. (Ex. a child eating dirt would not qualify)4. If the eating behavior occurs in the context of another mental disorder (ex. Intellectual disabilities/ autism), it needs to be sufficiently sever to warrant additional clinical attention.Diagnostic Features:- Minimum age of 2 yrs old is suggested.- Can develop bezoar's- Can become infected with toxoplamosis (parasite) and toxocariasis (worms)- Poisoning (ex. led paint)Prevalence: unclear. Mostcommonly reported in childhood onset, as well during pregnancy TERM 3 Rumination Disorder DEFINITION 3 Diagnostic Criteria1. Repeated regurgitation of food over a period of at least 1 month. Several times per week, typically daily. May be re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spit out.2. The repeated regurgitation is not attributable to an associated gastrointestinal or other medical condition.3. Does not occur exclusively during the course of other eating disorders.4. If symptoms occur in the context of another mental disorder, the are sufficiently sever to warrant additional clinical attention.Prevalence: Inconclusive but higher reports in individuals W/intllectual disabilities. TERM 4 Avoidant/Restrictive Good Intake Disorder DEFINITION 4 Diagnostic CriteriaEX. Person doesn't want to eat white food.1. An eating or feeding disturbance as manifested by persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and or energy needs associated with one or more of the following:- Significant weight loss or inability to meet expected weight loss and significant nutritional deficiency.- Dependence on enteral feeding or oral nutritional supplements- Marked interference W/psychosocial functioning2. The disturbance is not better explained by lack of available food or associated culturally sanctioned practice.3. The eating disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, and there is no evidence of a disturbance in the way in which ones body weight or shape is experienced.4. The eating disturbance is not attributable to a concurrent medical condition or not better explained by another mental disorder. TERM 5 Anorexia Nervosa DEFINITION 5 Diagnostic Criteria:1. Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health. Low weight is less than minimally normal or, for children and adolescents, less than that minimally expected,2. Intense fear of gaining weight or of becoming fat, or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, even through at a significantly low weight. ect. Excessive running.3. Disturbance is the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight.- There are two specifiers 1) Restricting Type. 2) Binge eating/Purging.- Severity is based on BMI percentiles.-Population is approximately 10:1 female-to-male ratio.- Onset adolescence or young adulthood. Rarely begins before puberty or after age 40. But have happened-Associated with stressful life event (ex. leaving home for college)-Crude mortality rate is 5% per decade.-Death is commonly a result of medical complications or from suicide.