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1
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CBT or FBT for eating disorders?

A

CBT for adults, FBT for adoescents

2
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If given the choice between cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), behaviour therapy (BT), and interpersonal therapy (IPT) for the treatment of bulimia for a friend, which would be the best choice based on available research?

a. CBT is the best choice.
b. IPT is the best choice.
c. IPT or BT are both good choices.
d. CBT or IPT are both good choices.

A

d. CBT or IPT are both good choices.

3
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The increase in the incidence of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia has been referred to as a “collision between our culture and our physiology.” What does this mean?

a. People are fed up with being told how they should look.
b. People have become too dependent on media determinations of beauty.
c. Media standards of beauty are increasingly unattainable for the average woman.
d. Dieting has become a fad that has been taken to an extreme.

A

c. Media standards of beauty are increasingly unattainable for the average woman.

4
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Dr. Cowan treats women with anorexia but also specializes in treating another disorder that commonly co-occurs with anorexia. What is that disorder MOST likely to be?

a. anxiety disorder
b. personality disorder
c. obsessive-compulsive disorder
d. depressive disorder

A

c. obsessive-compulsive disorder

5
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How can we tell that the media’s message to be thin is aimed clearly at women?

a. in the fact that overweight men are two to five times more common as television characters than are overweight women
b. in the fact that there are relatively few “physical appearance” competitions for men
c. in the fact that there are significantly more thin women in popular magazines than thin men
d. in the fact that most men prefer to date thin women

A

a. in the fact that overweight men are two to five times more common as television characters than are overweight women