PSY_470_Abnormality_eating_disorder.docx(1) PSY 470 Eating Disorders- Children and Ado

PSY_470_Abnormality_eating_disorder.docx(1)  PSY 470    Eating Disorders- Children and Adolescents  Grand Canyon University PSY 470  Eating disorders in children and adolescents remain a serious cause of morbidity and mortality in children, adolescents, and young adults. Eating disorders can affect a person physically, mentally, and can harm relationships between friends and family. Help from a professional counsellor can help lead to a person suffering with this in the right direction.  There are different forms of eating disorders. One specific and common one is referred to as anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is diagnosed when patients weigh at least 15 percent less than the normal healthy weight expected for their height. Individuals with anorexia nervosa don't keep a healthy weight since they will not eat enough, they fear being fat and therefore, frequently workout excessively, and once in a while constrain themselves to regurgitation or use laxatives to get more fit. Over the long run, the following symptoms can lead the body into starvation. These include dry skin, brittle hair, drop in blood pressure, depression and a few other various symptoms.  When looking how this disorder harms the body from a cardiovascular standpoint, there are many consequences of anorexia nervosa that include rhythm disturbances, mitral valve prolapses, plus both systolic and diastolic ventricular dysfunction. Abnormally slow heart rate (bradycardia) when weak heart muscles cannot pump at a healthy rate. Loss of reflex to constrict bl