Create the perfect storm for adolescents struggling with eating disorders.
Create the perfect storm for adolescents struggling with eating disorders.
Create the perfect storm for adolescents struggling with eating disorders.
Week 5: Biological Development of Adolescents
There are no clear-cut guidelines for how adolescents are supposed to behave. On the one hand, they are children, but on the other hand, they are adults.
—Zaslow, Kirst-Ashman and Hessenauer (2019, p. 284)
The overwhelming and quickly paced physical changes adolescents experience can have a powerful impact on the way they see themselves and their place in the world. Going through puberty can wreak havoc on an adolescent’s self-concept, self-image, and self-esteem. In addition to weathering dramatic physical and psychological changes, adolescents must handle peer pressure and social media messages related to alcohol consumption, drug use, and sexual activity. When adolescents do not have sufficient social or familial support, they may lack healthy coping mechanisms. This circumstance can often lead them to use unhealthy coping mechanisms like undereating or overeating, abusing drugs and/or alcohol, or physical self-harm. This week, consider the ways adolescents try to handle such significant physical changes and such consistent pressure.
References
Zastrow, C. H., Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hessenauer, S. L. (2019). Understanding human behavior and the social environment (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
• Apply knowledge of human development to personal experiences
• Analyze the effect of the social environment
• Analyze strengths across developmental stages
• Evaluate relationship between article findings and current thinking about eating disorders
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Learning Resources
Required Readings
Zastrow, C. H., Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hessenauer, S. L. (2019). Understanding human behavior and the social environment (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
• Chapter 6, “Biological Development in Adolescence” (pp. 282-319)
Melchert, T. P. (2015). Assessment. In Biopsychosocial practice: A science-based framework for behavioral health care (pp. 149-182). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association.
Reamer, F. (2013). Preventing ethics blindness in Social Work. Social Work Today. Retrieved from http://www.socialworktoday.com/news/eoe_021213.shtml
Caputo, R. (2009). Adolescent sexual debut: A multisystem perspective of ethnic and racial differences. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 19(4), 330–358.
Day, C., Kearney, C., & Squires, F. (2016). Art, science and experience of peer support: Learning from the Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities programme. International Journal Of Birth & Parent Education, 4(2), 13–18.
Gratwick-Sarll, K., Bentley, C., Harrison, C., & Mond, J. (2016). Poor self-recognition of disordered eating among girls with bulimic-type eating disorders: Cause for concern?. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 10(4), 316–323.
Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., Brocksen S. (Eds.). (2014). Sessions: Case histories. Baltimore, MD: Laureate International Universities Publishing. [Vital Source e-reader].
• The Logan Family
Required Media
Laureate Education (Producer). (2013). Logan family (Episode 3) [Video file]. In Sessions. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 minutes.
Assignment: Eating Disorders
Cultures idealizing thinness, pressure from peers to fit in, and constant images of bodily perfection shown by mass media, along with additional physiological and psychological factors, can combine to create the perfect storm for adolescents struggling with eating disorders. For this Assignment, choose one peer-reviewed research study about eating disorders that focuses on a minority group of adolescents. Consider connections between physiological development, adolescence, and eating disorders.
By Day 7
Submit a 2- to 4-page paper for which you articulate a position on eating disorders in adolescent girls from diverse racial and cultural experiences. Explain how the position is related to the biological and/or physiological development as well as psychological development of adolescent girls. Further, explain how such findings can inform evidence-based social work practice. Please use the Learning Resources and the research study you identified to support your answer.
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