CLPSY - Feeding and Eating, Substance and Addictive, and Personality Disorders Lesson

Learning Target:

  • Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including feeding and eating disorders, personality disorders, and their corresponding symptoms.

AP psychology course and exam description, effective fall 2020. (n.d.). https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-psychology-course-and-exam-description.pdf

Feeding and Eating Disorders

Feeding and eating disorders are those illnesses that disrupt a person's everyday diet, eating too little food or too much food, frequently accompanied by severe distress about weight or body shape.

Read about the types of feeding and eating disorders in the image below.

RUMINATION DISORDER: Rumination disorder is characterized by the repeated regurgitation of food for a period of one month or more. ANOREXIA NERVOSA: Anorexia nervosa is characterized by an individual's refusal to eat and maintain a normal body weight. They experience an intense fear of gaining weight and have a distorted perception of their body size and shape. BULIMIA NERVOSA: Bulimia nervosa is characterized by binge eating and then purging. Common methods of expelling food include induced vomiting and the use of laxatives. BINGE-EATING DISORDER: Binge-eating disorder is characterized by periods of binge eating on average at least once a week for at least three months.

Personality Disorders Image of three faces.

Individuals with a "normal" personality have traits that are consistent over time and situations and are well-adjusted, flexible, and adaptive. Those suffering from personality disorders have traits that are inflexible and maladaptive across a wide range of situations. These maladaptive traits dominate the individual's personality. Symptoms are evident by adolescence or young adulthood and are characterized by deviation from accepted social norms. During the DSM-5 revision, the American Psychiatric Association decided to retain the personality disorders from the DSM-IV.

Learn more about personality disorders in the video below.

Click through the personality disorders in the activity below.

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