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The importance of the family situation to understand the role of anorexia symptoms

INTRODUCTION: The objective of this poster is to show the importance of understanding the situation of the patient’s family in order to know the development and role that eating symptoms are occupying both in the patient and in the different members that make up the family OBJECTIVES: Highlight the...

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Autores principales: Del Sol Calderon, P., Izquierdo, A., Moreno, M. García
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480026/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1870
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description INTRODUCTION: The objective of this poster is to show the importance of understanding the situation of the patient’s family in order to know the development and role that eating symptoms are occupying both in the patient and in the different members that make up the family OBJECTIVES: Highlight the triggering and sustaining factors of a case of anorexia nervosa METHODS: Case Report RESULTS: Patient is a 14-year-old woman who begins to develop excessive concern about her body image initiating eating behaviors in the form of high restriction and counting of calories from food. Also she explains that she began to compulsively perform more than two hours a day of sports in order to lose weight Family genogram: she is an only daughter, whose parents have been separated for 4 years. Parents recognize conflictive relationship. The patient recognizes a very close relationship with her mother. When she talks about her relationship with her father, she explains how she felt very close to her father when she was young but that after the separation her father moved away. She describes that his father rebuilt his life a year ago and that he recently informed her that he is going to be a father again. She recognizes intense feelings of abandonment from her father. She acknowledges that the sense of control starting with anorexia initially helped her to feel confident about herself. CONCLUSIONS: Understanding the origin of the symptoms and their function is essential for a better management of cases of anorexia DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships.
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spelling pubmed-94800262022-09-29 The importance of the family situation to understand the role of anorexia symptoms Del Sol Calderon, P. Izquierdo, A. Moreno, M. García Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: The objective of this poster is to show the importance of understanding the situation of the patient’s family in order to know the development and role that eating symptoms are occupying both in the patient and in the different members that make up the family OBJECTIVES: Highlight the triggering and sustaining factors of a case of anorexia nervosa METHODS: Case Report RESULTS: Patient is a 14-year-old woman who begins to develop excessive concern about her body image initiating eating behaviors in the form of high restriction and counting of calories from food. Also she explains that she began to compulsively perform more than two hours a day of sports in order to lose weight Family genogram: she is an only daughter, whose parents have been separated for 4 years. Parents recognize conflictive relationship. The patient recognizes a very close relationship with her mother. When she talks about her relationship with her father, she explains how she felt very close to her father when she was young but that after the separation her father moved away. She describes that his father rebuilt his life a year ago and that he recently informed her that he is going to be a father again. She recognizes intense feelings of abandonment from her father. She acknowledges that the sense of control starting with anorexia initially helped her to feel confident about herself. CONCLUSIONS: Understanding the origin of the symptoms and their function is essential for a better management of cases of anorexia DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. Cambridge University Press 2021-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9480026/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1870 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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