Step 1: Please watch this documentary on eating disorders. You may want to take notes, or you can watch it once just for the info, then watch it again when you are ready to answer questions. Please give yourself enough time to watch all of the documentary, it is almost 2hrs in length.
Step 2: Copy and paste the questions below into the submission box and then type your answers below each question. Remember, some questions require you to synthesize info from previous chapters.
Critically Evaluate What You Saw
Women featured: Shelly, Brittany, Alisa, Polly.
What types of purging did you see demonstrated in the documentary? (You may need to refer back to the readings for examples of types of purging. You may either refer to scenes or names of hospital patients)
Cross application! Provide some evidence where observational learning occurred in the documentary. Refer to your readings in chapter 6.
Cross application! Explain what types of operant conditioning are used to treat the eating disorders of the women in this hospital. Please refer to the terms discussed in chapter 6 and previous assignments. Provide examples of at least two different types of operant conditioning.
What questions or feelings are you left with after watching this documentary?
Which woman’s story featured in “Thin” impacted you the most?
THIN documentary YouTube
Eating disorders are serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact your health, your emotions and your ability to function in important areas of life. The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder. Most eating disorders involve focusing too much on your weight, body shape and food, leading to dangerous eating behaviors. These behaviors can significantly impact your body`s ability to get appropriate nutrition. Eating disorders can harm the heart, digestive system, bones, and teeth and mouth, and lead to other diseases. Eating disorders often develop in the teen and young adult years, although they can develop at other ages.
try not to take care of youngsters’ hunger for encountering risk by eliminating every expected danger, while we are making it tentatively more secure we are likewise establishing a test free climate, which adjusts their personality advancement. Youngsters have an inborn intuition to encounter chance to the degree that they will search it out themselves. This wish to get away from a prohibitive adolescence could be contended to be a contributing component to an ascent in reserved youth relaxation exercises like wrongdoing (Gill 2007).
Beginning around 2007 the UK has seen an expansion in brutal wrongdoings including road packs and an ascent in casualties of rough posse fighting. This could be to some degree accused on the ramifications of making settings risk free. From the recently established challenge free conditions (Stephenson, 2003: 40) youngsters are bound to become exhausted which settles on surprising ways of behaving and decisions become progressively interesting to make fervor in their play. Walsh (1993: 24) investigates this view making sense of kids are ‘directed to involve gear in surprising and really hazardous courses with an end goal to make challenge for themselves’.
We are encircled by the most animating climate possible. In any case, we are basically not daring to the point of utilizing it. The open air climate has the most regular and strong methods of learning for little youngsters (Bilton, 2002). It gives free admittance to limitless space to move youngsters’ inventiveness and creative mind. A definitive creation must be nature itself, which persistently surpasses the limits of humanity’s creative mind. In the present culture to offer kids the full scope of chances to create and encounter what was once called a ‘typical youth’ and to accomplish their maximum capacity instructors and suppliers should have the certainty to involve this regular asset as a focal piece of their teaching method and be daring to the point of facing the ‘fault and guarantee culture’ (Trafford, 2018)that right now stops them doing as such.
In 2002 the Child Accident Prevention Trust investigated youngsters’ mentalities to gamble in the North-east of England. They found a larger part of the youthful populace went out and played on badlands, building locales, metros, underpasses, deserted structures and quarries so they could look for opportunity away from the careful focus of grown-ups while encountering and finding out about risk. This was the main way the youngsters felt they could have genuine experiences where they could climb, run, bounce and utilize their creative mind. (Gill 2007: 19). This opens them to unmonitored risk which seemingly is more hazardous to our more youthful age since they’ve not figured out how to evaluate risk through experience as we have kept them in a case of wellbeing.