scholarly journals Culturally Sensitive Intervention for Latina Women with Eating Disorders: A Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mae Lynn Reyes-Rodriguez ◽  
Donald H. Baucom ◽  
Cynthia M. Bulik
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Latina Women ◽  
Culturally Sensitive Intervention

Why Do People Get Better With Exposure Therapy?

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Carolyn Black Becker ◽  
Nicholas R. Farrell ◽  
Glenn Waller
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Therapeutic Intervention ◽  
Exposure Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Benefit ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Systematic Desensitization ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments ◽  
Inhibitory Learning

This chapter outlines a theoretically based rationale for using exposure consistently in the treatment of individuals with eating disorders. Due to the substantial overlap between eating disorders and anxiety disorders (both in symptom content and in comorbidity between the conditions), exposure therapy is a sound choice for therapeutic intervention. Indeed, the most evidence-based treatments for eating disorders contain a number of exposure-based strategies that drive much of the therapeutic benefit. The chapter discusses habituation, systematic desensitization, and inhibitory learning and differentiates exposure therapy from systematic desensitization. Using a case study to consider how exposure therapists can help patients learn to tolerate their anxiety by leaning into it rather than engaging in safety behaviors, this chapter lays the foundation for the application of exposure therapy to patients with eating disorders.

scholarly journals Mediators of a Culturally-Sensitive Intervention for Suicidal African American Women

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaiyu Zhang ◽  
Kiranmayi Neelarambam ◽  
Tomina J. Schwenke ◽  
Miesha N. Rhodes ◽  
Delishia M. Pittman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
American Women ◽  
Culturally Sensitive Intervention

Assessing African American Spirituality with Spiritual Ecomaps

2002 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 585-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Hodge ◽  
Trina R. Williams
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
African American Spirituality ◽  
American Spirituality

While there is increasing awareness that spirituality is a central dimension of human existence, there are few assessment instruments that operationalize spiritual strengths in a clinically useful manner. Further, instruments tailored specifically for African Americans, the population for whom spirituality may be most salient, have been almost completely lacking in the literature. Correspondingly, this paper develops a diagrammatic assessment instrument, spiritual ecomaps, for assessing African American spirituality. After delineating the theoretical components of a spiritual ecomap, practical suggestions are given for the instrument's use, including a number of possible interventions that flow from the assessment process. A case study is provided to familiarize the reader with the instrument. The paper concludes by offering suggestions for using the instrument for other populations in a culturally sensitive manner.

scholarly journals Antonella: ‘A Stranger in the Family’—A Case Study of Eating Disorders Across Cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Di Nicola
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Adoptive Family ◽  
Mood Symptoms ◽  
Attachment Problems ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe story of Antonella illustrates the way in which cultural and other values impact on the presentation and treatment of eating disorders. Displaced from her European home culture to live in Canada, Antonella presents with an eating disorder and a fluctuating tableau of anxiety and mood symptoms linked to her lack of a sense of identity. These arose against a background of her adoption as a foundling child in Italy and her attachment problems with her adoptive family generating chronically unfixed and unstable identities, resulting in her cross-cultural marriage as both flight and refuge followed by intense conflicts. Her predicament is resolved only when after an extended period in cultural family therapy she establishes a deep cross-species identification by becoming a breeder of husky dogs. The wider implications of Antonella’s story for understanding the relationship between cultural values and mental health are briefly considered.

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