What is the theory behind this Anorexia therapy worksheet?
Anorexia nervosa is a type of eating disorder Individuals with Anorexia have abnormally low body weight, extreme insecurity regarding gaining weight and a distorted self-perception of their own body weight. This is an extremely unhealthy coping mechanism for emotional problems. People with anorexia associate a thin body with their self worth. This condition can get life threatening as well.
How will the worksheet help?
This worksheet will help clients with Anorexia to reflect on their present, past and future. They will be able to look at the changes that occur in their lives due to their unhealthy eating habits and also the potential future threat it is likely to cause them in all the areas of their lives.
How to use this worksheet?
To use this worksheet, clients are required to write about your life before you had Anorexia nervosa. Then write what their present day is like and then the consequences of five years into the future with this condition.
Anorexia therapy worksheet
| Five years before Anorexia | At present, diagnosed with Anorexia | Five years after Anorexia | |
| My body My view about my body My physical health My mental health What I would be feeling What my job would by My social life in general My relationship with my parents My relationship with other family members My romantic life relationship with my partner My offsprings My relationship with my close friends My spirituality what my qualification would be My level of life satisfaction How the world will see me What people will say about me What I will think about myself as a person |
References
Garner, D. M. (1993). Pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa. The Lancet. Vol. 41/26: 1631, 1634.
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