There are many factors that can contribute to mental disorders in the cognitive-behavioral theoretical perspective. In the book Letting Ana Go part of a book series that is based on diaries written by anonymous teenagers that are left behind, Ana has an eating disorder called Anorexia Nervosa (307.1). Starting with the Summer sports starts, her coach makes her track team start a food diary, to monitor eating habits so that eating disorders do not happen. Ana's best friend Jill, is a ballerina trying to loose weight so that she can FINALLY win the main character in The Nutcracker. During the story, Ana goes on vacation with Jill and her brother Jack, who happens to be Ana's love interest. Jill talks Ana into 'counting her calories' and loosing …show more content…
Her parents didn't even realize what was happening. The only person who tried to help her, Ana rejected, saying she was getting on her nerves being so worried about her. Ana denied that something was wrong- everything was fine, and it was normal for her to be under 1,000 calories and to be extermely thin. Ana might still be here today, if she had recieved treatment, including: Intensive Outpatient (IOP) and Inpatient/Hospital Treatment. During the the IOP treatment, the patient is able to continue on with schoolwork and daily activities. The patient will recieve individualized therapy with a nutritionist, and there is the option for a family support group. Ana could have still ran track, while meeting with her nutritionist a couple of days throughout the week. If her parents were not so busy arguing over the weight of her mother, maybe they would have noticed Ana not eating dinner, never wanted to eat her favortite desserts, or running 4 times a day everytime she even smelled …show more content…
During the study college kids were paid to act as prisoners and guards for the expierment. They were arrested, booked, and given numbers. There were "good guards" and "bad guards". There was punnishment. There was everything that made it look less like and expieriement and more like an actual prision. The guards were warned of the danger that could occur, and therefore would have to make a name for themselves in the way of intense punnishment. The "good guards" were the guards who did favors for the prisioners, and never punnished any of them, staying on the good side of the prisioners so that they were not harmed. The "bad guards" did not care for being friends, they were there for a reason in their mind, and it was to make sure the 'prisoners' paid for their 'crimes'. The "bad guards" were so hostile with their punnishement, it was almost as if they enjoyed the power. The prisioners would try to become 'the best prisoner' by getting so into the act, that they could recieve the special treatments of the prison. With having special treatment, the prisoners who were deemed good were allowed beds, and uniforms back, and they were also able to brush their teeth and bathe. If you were deemed a bad prisoner, they were often not allowed to eat. Special treatment would eventually lead to guard brutality, along with the prisoners going crazy with their emotions.
The conditions of prisons were a bit dreadful. In some prisons, prisoners had their feet fasten together by iron bars and had chains around their necks. Most prisoner cells had very little furniture and bedding, prisoners had to sleep on the floor or unless had their friends supply them with furniture and bedding. Most cells did not have a toilet, prisoners were given buckets. A prisoner was giving a small loaf of bread unless they had money to buy more food but that was a bit expensive. Even children were allowed in prisons. Some prison...
Relations during this time with the prison and the outside world are discussed, as well as how these relations dominated life inside of a prison and developed new challenges within the prison. After Ragen left, Frank Pate become his successors. Pate faced a problem because he neither sought nor exercised the charismatic authority of Ragen. The Prison remained an imperatively coordinated paramilitary organization, which still required its warden to personify its goals and values. Jacobs goes on to discusses how what Pate did, was not the same direction or ideas that Ragen was doing or had. Jacobs’s counties this discussion with the challenges and issues that prison had during the time of 1961 through 1970. Jacobs blames that the loss of a warden who could command absolute authority, the loss of local autonomy, it heightened race problems among blacks, and the penetration of legal norms exposed severe strains in the authrotitarian system, and says pate cant control
The book Stick Figure: A Diary Of My Former Self is a personal journal written by Lori Gottlieb when she was 11 years old suffering from anorexia nervosa. “Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that causes people to obsess about their weight and the food they eat.” (mayclinic.com) Most eating disorders are physiological due to friends and family, stress, and the social media. Anorexia nervosa, like all other eating disorders, is extremely dangerous and unhealthy for the human body to endure. Although eating disorders are destructive to one's life, is there an explainable reasoning behind why a person may have one?
The stories of the Red Guards remind me very much of the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which 24 university students were recruited for a psychological experiment in which half of the group would become a prison guard and the other half prisoners. The young men had rules that they had to live by during the week to two weeks the...
On August 14, 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment had begun. The volunteers who had replied to the ad in the newspaper just weeks before were arrested for the claims of Armed Robbery and Burglary. The volunteers were unaware of the process of the experiment, let alone what they were getting themselves into. They were in shock about what was happening to them. Once taken into the facility, the experimenters had set up as their own private jail system; the twenty-four volunteered individuals were split up into two different groups (Stanford Prison Experiment).
These cases, along with the Junkie case (Joe), were the only cases that showed significant physical consequences, such as headaches, loss of tooth enamel, feeling fatigue, and possibly leading to terminal illness. Mrs. B’s and Thin Tim’s cases were the only cases where the clients’ intrusive thoughts caused them to avoid a behavior (Mrs. B avoiding sexual intercourse with her husband for fear of disapproval from family or being a “tramp” and Tim’s obsessive cleanliness causing him to avoid social activities at friends’ homes because they are “dirty”). Joe, Wanda, and Tomas all seemed to engage in behaviors despite being aware of the physical and financial consequences. The last difference we believe is important to mention is that Tim is the only client who has significant and obvious signs of a comorbid disorder. According to https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/expert-opinion-eating-disorders-and-ocd/ eating disorders fall on the OCD spectrum. This is actually quite challenging for clinicians, since they may struggle to diagnose and treat OCD in a client who is in need of treatment for a diagnosed eating
Morris, Norval, and David Rothman. The Oxford History of the Prison. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
... layout of the building or recognition of the various guards (Woodham, Internet). In 1913 the Board of Mental Health stepped in and advised the penitentiary to change their policies regarding punishment (Eerie History). Officials from the Board of Health deemed the methods being used to reform the inmates were not reforming them but doing the exact opposite. These methods were found to result in extreme anger, deep set depression, and were in fact making the inmates that much more likely to commit another crime (Eerie History). Doctors at the Eastern State Penitentiary countered these accusations by making absurd excuses for why the inmates went insane (Eastern State). This fact alone provides the proof that the officials of the penitentiary knew that what they were doing was wrong and therefore came up with faulty excuses to cover their mistreatment of the inmates.
The prisoners were given prison uniforms and number. The prisoners were subjected to numbers over their names and required to remember their names as ordered by the guards. When they reached the prison, they were blindfolded, stripped naked and forced to wear a dress as humiliation and entertainment
Subjects became so entranced in these roles that the guards started to behave as if they really were the guards of a true prison. Zimbardo had told them to think of themselves in this way and it led to the guards mentally abusing the prisoners with their cruel and degrading routines. In Romesh Ra...
We see that the author’s purpose is to allow the readers to understand that the prisoners were not treated humanly, and allows us to see the negative attitudes the authority had towards the prisoners.
In an episode of the popular sitcom Full House, “Shape Up,” DJ Tanner under-eats and over-exercises, but she recovers from her negative relationship with food and exercise by the end of the episode. Though it should be noted that this episode does not claim to represent a specific eating disorder and does not glamorize eating disorders in any way, representations like this solidify the stereotype that eating disorders are easily solved and recovered from. Also, eating disorders can be tied to other disabilities of mental health, including bipolar disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety, and depression (Adair). Disabilities of mental health in general are often intertwined. This can be seen in The Quiet Room; Schiller often shows signs of depression and anxiety during treatment. In Schiller’s case and in many others, disabilities of mental health can snowball in many ways.
One aspect of the documentary that relates to class material was the inmate’s description of being trapped in their cells like animals in a cage. This description of imprisonment can be associated to the article written by Sykes entitled, “The Pains of Imprisonment”. In this article, the author elaborates about how an inmate’s liberty is restricted to a specific building but then reduced further to a specific routine where they are told where to go and what to do. “In short, the prisoner’s loss of liberty is a double one — first, by confinement to the institution and second, by confinement within the institution.” (Sykes, 65). This is similar to how the prisoners in segregation are confined to the prison, and additionally to their cell. Another feature of the film that reflected class material was the campus style design of the prison. The inmates were allowed to roam around cell area and interact with other prisoners. Furthermore, different styles of adaptation to the segregation unit can be linked to class material. For instance, one member of the isolation unit is focused on completing his GED, an adaptation called gleaning. This is when an inmate takes advantage of offered programs because they do not want to return to prison. Prisoners who have served longer sentence times in isolation, for instance over a year, reflected a “doing time” adaption. They were simply focused on
Eating disorders are quite serious and can often lead to extreme disruption of normal eating behaviors. It wasn’t considered an illness till 1980, when a singer named Karen Carpenter died from complications due to anorexia. If left untreated a person can put significant stress on their body; causing the body to begin to shut down. Often the organs will begin to fail, the persons hair will start to fall out and the person whom you once knew will become completely unrecognizable. Researchers have found many reasons that can be the cause of eating disorders. If we consider Demi Lovato a once happy go lucky Disney star who started acting different from her usual self. We can see that she was struggling from some kind of internal complex. When
Subjects became so entranced in these roles that the guards started to behave as if they really were the guards of a true prison. Zimbardo had told them to think of themselves in this way and it led to the guards mentally abusing the prisoners with their cruel and degrading ro...