Weight Suppression in Eating Disorders: a Research and Conceptual Update
| Autor: | Amani D. Piers, Leora Benson, Michael R. Lowe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
050103 clinical psychology Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia nervosa Weight Gain Feeding and Eating Disorders 03 medical and health sciences Weight loss Weight Loss medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Bulimia Nervosa 030109 nutrition & dietetics Mechanism (biology) Bulimia nervosa 05 social sciences Miscellaneous samples medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Eating disorders medicine.symptom Psychology Weight gain Clinical psychology Dieting Behavioral Research |
| Zdroj: | Current psychiatry reports. 20(10) |
| ISSN: | 1535-1645 |
| Popis: | Weight suppression, the discrepancy between an individual’s highest past weight at adult height and his or her current weight, is related to many characteristics of individuals with eating disorders. This paper reviews research findings from the past 5 years, draws several implications regarding the mechanism underlying these effects, and proposes new approaches to measuring weight suppression. Studies were reviewed under the categories of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and mixed or miscellaneous samples, with more studies falling into the last category than in the first two. Recent findings have continued to show that weight suppression is related to a wide variety of biological and behavioral features in both diagnosed and sub-clinical samples. Weight suppression promotes weight gain which is anathema to individuals with eating disorders, putting them in a biobehavioral bind that appears to prolong their disorder. Priorities for future research are to understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of weight suppression, evaluate new ways of defining weight suppression, and study its implications for modifying treatment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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