Discussion:
Developping Lifespan-Eating Disorders
Questions:
1. Explain how eating disorders develop in adolescent females.
2. What risk factors are common amongst those who develop disorders?
3. Using one of the developmental theories that we have studied, explain how the adolescent's self-identity is affected by having an eating disorder.
4. Propose interventions that could be used to reduce the risk of developing an eating disorder with an adolescent who is still experimenting with food reduction.
Use a minimum of five scholarly journals, books, articles, or other academic sources.