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Adolescents peer relationship have a huge role to play in feeding and eating disorders. According to the textbook, adolescents want to identify with who shares their values and interests. Because of the need to be accepted, adolescents will do extreme things to fit in, such as copying negative eating habits. According to the video provided in the class resource, body image is a serious issue in adolescence. Young girls in the video had many concerns about how they looked. These young girls spoke about not liking to be called fat by peers and one mentioned that she started fasting in 8 th grade because of concern of how she looks. Adolescents’ low self-esteem combined with their quest for perfectionism leads them to be intolerant of any flaws. For most eating disorders, a lot has to do with relationships or friendships. This adolescent has control over how they interact with their peers, “Once an adolescent becomes a member of a peer group, the members of that subgroup influence each other in their social activities, study habits, dress, sexual behavior, use or nonuse of drugs, vocational pursuits, and hobbies” (Zastrow, et al., 2018). They have a huge role to play in the feeding and eating disorders of their peers. During adolescence, youth tend to want to fit in with their peers. For example, a girl might want to join the cheerleading team but feels that she is not slim enough. Social media has not made it easy for adolescents with body image. Today adolescents use social media for interpersonal peer relationships and to develop their identity, something that happened mostly at school in the past. The use of social media in adolescence tends to inform, influence and persuade their peers. The use of apps to manipulate images and post for their peers to see. While working as a technician at a Kaiser hospital in California, I was fortunate to see adolescents suffering from eating disorders, especially young girls and some boys. Due to the development of social media many young people are suffering from eating disorders.

It is easy to find people who can relate to them on the pro ana website. www.instagram.com or https://www.muscleandfitness.com/muscle-fitness-hers/hers-nutrition/simple-2-week-clean- eating-meal-plan-better-health/ are sites that are favorable to Pro Ana behavior. The Instagram and muscle and fitness website have content that teaches people to eat less and lose weight. It also promotes a certain body image that is glorified by adolescents. These sites are places where adolescents can go and feel like they are supported, not judged by peers, or talk to by family members about their weight. Here being thin is adore and promotion of poor eating habits is okay. On these sites weight loss is encourage there promoting eating disorder for the adolescence who then The rational therapy approach can be used when working with adolescents with feeding and eating disorders. This rational therapy involves getting one to work on changing an unwanted emotion by “getting involved in meaningful activity; changing the negative and irrational thinking that underlies the unwanted emotion; and changing the distressing event” (Zastrow, et al., 2018). We are encouraged to participate in something meaningful, we enjoy doing to evade unwanted emotion. By getting involved in an enjoyable activity our minds might come off from frustration, depression or feeling of failure. Another approach is Rational self-analysis where one record the event themselves talking and write it on a paper. In doing this RSA, you give yourself a chance to analyze, make rational decisions and avoid future negative tendences. And a third way to change unwanted emotions is to change distressing events. One is encouraged to put effort and directly confront any distressing event and make constructive change. Adolescence is a time when serious biological, psychological, and social change happens. This time in life for young women you will find serious physical and hormonal changes that impact their body, not forgetting there is also social forces at work. According to the textbook, this is

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when the three eating disorders, “anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder” are common amongst young women who wants to be accepted or get validated by peer takes extreme in their eating behavior. Eating disorder comes during this vulnerable time and takes a devastating effect causing unhealthy weight. The changes that eating disorder brings will deprive these adolescents of the social, emotional biological development process that happens during this time of their life. Individuals with eating disorder “tend to feel inadequate and worthless”. These young people tend to worry about looks and what others think about them. They want to fit in and not worry about being called fat. Since eating disorder is a serious problem that can lead to death, the textbook suggested an inpatient (hospitalization) or outpatient treatment depending on the severity of the problem. Anorexics who continue not to gain weight and bulimics who cannot stop binging will need to stay in an inpatient unit to be treated before outpatient can be considered again. The textbook also suggests individual psychotherapy or family therapy for eating disorders. The therapist should make it a goal to consider healthy eating, reducing stress, increased self-esteem, look at relationship issues and promote strong will power. Family therapy should also be considered when addressing eating disorders because other members of the family might be affected. Like the textbook noted “The family therapist seeks to improve family functioning, which facilitates the recovery of the individual. Family sessions are also helpful to eating-disordered individuals who are struggling with issues of separation from their primary family”.

References Allure. (2018, May 31). Girls ages 6–18 talk about body image Links to an external site. | Allure [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5mP5RveA_tk National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD). (n.d.). Body shaming Links to an external site. . https://anad.org/get- informed/body-image/body-image-articles/body-shaming/ Salomon, I., & Brown, C. S. (2019). The selfie generation: Examining the relationship between social media use and early adolescent body image Links to an external site. . The Journal of Early Adolescence , 39 (4), 539–560. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431618770809 Zastrow, C. H., Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hessenauer, S. L. (2019). Understanding human behavior and the social environment (11th ed.). Cengage Learning.

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