Intervention and Treatment of Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa and Eating Disorder

Abstract

This paper focuses on the medical complication on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, which is mainly study in the area of adolescents. First, this article illustrates the negative impact of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The seriousness could even cause death but most symptoms are malnutrition and gastric disease. Previous studies find that these disorders have several causes, including culture factors, media influence and family influence. The culture would influence the symptoms of the binge eating of bulimia nervosa. For example, the Africans would prefer binge eating privately to avoid others. While Asians are likely to eat under a fast speed. The media of diet eating and even some videos about binge eating would deliver an unhealthy mind to the individual who are watching them, especially the adolescents. Their minds and attitudes are easy to be influenced and changed. Then listing out some therapy ways like cognitive therapy and several medicine that would work well. Afterwards, the paper has figured out that the fluoxetine would be perfect suitable for treatment bulimia nervosa. This paper laid out the factors and symptoms of the eating disorders, and selected the therapies to the disorders. Future research should conduct more researches on the mechanism ways in cognitive treatment.