Eating disorders

A two page paper on a sixteen-year-old presenting to a rural clinic with difficulty concentrating, a thin and frail appearance and a request for diet pills: areas of concern, screening tools, one health promotion strategy and a plan of care. This guide connects the three findings into one hypothesis.

A planning guide for a discussion asking you to weigh biological causes of anorexia nervosa against sociological and individual ones, taking account of the types of the disorder and of treatment. The prompt states its own conclusion, and noticing that changes what you have to do.

Discuss how you would approach the history and physical exam for an office patient with anorexia or bulimia, and identify the specific subjective and objective data you would obtain and why each matters.

Describe the neurobiology associated with anorexia, say whether characterising anorexia as a brain disorder surprises you, and set out what should be included in a treatment plan for best efficacy, supported by a minimum of two scholarly articles.