EVALUATION OF EATING DISORDERS IN ADOLESCENCE
Keywords:
eating disorders, vulnerability, adolescenceAbstract
Adolescence brings many important changes,
from stormy puberty changes, to significant cognitive and
emotional changes, or to the increased influence of the
group, all of them tracing lifestyle trajectories with long-term
implications. Thus, the risk of eating disorders is greatly
increased during the vulnerable period of adolescence, when
these disorders often take the form of an adaptation
mechanism by which the adolescent seeks control over a
situation when other aspects of his life make him powerless.
In this paper, I have been looking at the assessment of the
reality of eating disorders in adolescents in the form of
screening in relation to various predisposing factors,
precipitators or maintenance of the disorder, especially in the
context of adolescents either minimizing, denying or not
realizing the importance of these disorders. Feel fear, guilt
and shame in recognizing them.
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