Part 1: Research suggests that bulimia nervosa may be a culture-bound syndrome (Keel & Klump, 2003). Instances of anorexia are noted throughout the non-Western world, but bulimia tends to only be prevalent in Western cultures. Why do you think this is? If culture-bound syndromes tell us something about the culture in which they are found, what does the specific prevalence of bulimia say about Western culture? Bring in scholarly sources to support your perspective. Need Assignment Help?
Part 2: Considering the category of substance-related and addictive disorders:
Identify one thing you learned in this unit's reading (the text or the DSM-5-TR Clinical Cases book) that you found interesting or that challenged something you believed and discuss your thinking on it (be specific and resonant).
Ask a question you still have about substance-related and addictive disorders.
Part 3: Earlier in our course, you learned about the recovery approach to mental health care and applied it in various clinical contexts. Here, let's think about the recovery model as applied to both eating disorder and substance use disorders.
First, consider the three tenants of recovery: Person-centered, client-driven, and strengths-based (vs. illness-centered, practitioner-driven, and deficit-based).
Then, identify one of the best-practice treatments for eating disorder and one of the best-practice treatments for addiction discussed in your learning resources for this unit.
Then discuss whether you think each of those best-practice treatments is in alignment with or divergent from the recovery model, in what ways it is so, and how a practitioner using the recovery model might blend the two perspectives (recovery model + best practice therapy) to treat eating disorder and addiction.