Biopsychosocial Assessment in Eating Disorder

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Biopsychosocial assessment in eating disorder
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The biopsychosocial approach deliberately thinks about natural, mental and social
variables and their internal cooperation in understanding the wellbeing and disease of the
body. The point of the essay is to identify the significance of a detailed biopsychosocial
evaluation to classify the factors that lead to the analysis of an eating disorder and the
implication of the nursing care management. The occurrence of the psychological disorders,
which are characterized by the abnormal eating habits, is known as the eating disorder. Risk
factors for the eating disorder involve a change in the biological and psychological behaviour
within the body. However, because of the idea of the ailment and the patient's craving to keep
the disease, a large number of the cases stay undiscovered. Nurses ought to be cautious when
administering to patients in every single caring sector. Nurses play a crucial role in eating-
disorder recovery through person-centred care and therapeutic relationship. Nurses are
essential in building up the establishments of improvement, particularly to the patients who
may not comprehend that they have a illness within them. However, there has been
impressive development in the principles on the eating disorder, with significant suggestion
for the moral and theoretical issues that enclose the decision-making capacity and the way of
examining the disease (Van Ommen et al., 2009)
Researches indicate that there is an increasing number of young women are suffering
from eating disorder, and now they are seeking help through medical or nursing management.
This case study discusses Charlie who is a 19-year-old girl. Charlie went out for dinner with
her friends, but slowly she separated herself from them and started to stay alone. She eats
very little and takes laxative throughout the day. Charlie was taken to the Eating Disorder
Unit in Brisbane. She felt hesitated to disclose about her food habits to the nurses and
eventually Charlie was admitted to the unit and was prescribed with multivitamin and
antidepressant. According to the case study, the patient have anorexia nervosa because the
symptoms which are expressed in the case study matches with anorexia nervosa. Anorexia

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nervosa has to types. They are purging type and restricting type. Restricting type is those type
of anorexia nervosa in which the person has not sometimes engaged in the splurge eating and
exclusion behaviour which is, self-prompted vomiting, high exercise or the mishandling of
the laxatives. 90% of people with anorexia are females. 15-19 years olds make up to 40%
anorexics. Extensive fear of weight gain and becoming fat are the two major problems with
the patients. The biopsychosocial factors comprise genetic changes, developmental changes,
neurobiological factors and social pressure on the patient. Hereditary components contribute
half of the change for the advancement of the dietary issue (Johnson, 2008). Imbalance of
serotonin causes the rise of the neurobiological factors. Social pressure from the families or
parent causes the increase of an eating disorder. The biopsychosocial model explains the
relationship between socio-cultural appearance pressures and adverse effect (socio-cultural
and psychological components) and eating concerns in the adolescent girl. Rapid hormonal
changes are associated with the increased risk of eating disorder. The characteristic varieties
in eating and hunger might aggravate to women who are battled with food. There is a
widespread endocrine disorder which involves hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis. All the
stressful development phases of life place young women at increased risk of eating issues. In
addition to the physical transformations, these changes guide in clearly different common
roles and everyday schedules. At the point when the life is evolving quickly, dithering and
self- vulnerability, the human instinct to look something that exhibits a feeling of soundness
and control. An eating disorder can turn into the appropriate response, promising a young
lady that changing her body can change her life, comprehending ever one of the problems she
faces as she advances through the grown up improvement. Eating disorder includes anorexia
nervosa which naturally starts in the mid-adolescence with the beginning of nutritional
constraint that quickly gets out of manage in the later stages of life (Watson & Bulik, 2013).
The young women eating disorder come in the different, sizes, severities and shapes leads