How might you conceptualize this family, using a cognitive-behavioural approach? What positive and/or negative reinforcements do you think may be maintaining the girl’s restrictive eating behaviour? What positive and/or negative reinforcements do you think may be maintaining each parent’s behaviour?Discuss
An adolescent girl and her family come to your counselling practice because she has been restricting her food intake, and her parents are worried. They have been monitoring what she eats, and they realize she ingests far too few calories each day. The mother has begun to spend mealtimes begging, pleading, and cajoling her daughter […]