RESUMO
The aim of this study was to compare some of the characteristics of 50 mothers of patients with an eating disorder (ED) with those of a control group of 30 mothers of non-consulting adolescents. In comparison with the control group, the patients' mothers had higher scores for the bulimic factor of the Eating Attitudes Test-26, more frequent binge eating episodes, more eating disorder symptoms, more depression episodes, a higher incidence of bottle-fed daughters, provoked abortions and poor mother-daughter relationships with their own mothers. We recommend one-to-one diagnostic interviews with patients' mothers at the beginning of consultations.
Assuntos
Filho de Pais com Deficiência/psicologia , Depressão/psicologia , Transtornos da Alimentação e da Ingestão de Alimentos/psicologia , Mães/psicologia , Aborto Legal/psicologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Argentina/epidemiologia , Atitude Frente a Saúde , Alimentação com Mamadeira/psicologia , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Comorbidade , Depressão/epidemiologia , Transtornos da Alimentação e da Ingestão de Alimentos/epidemiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Incidência , Comportamento Materno , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Relações Mãe-Filho , Psicologia do Adolescente , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
Eating disorders are pathologies with a complex, multifactorial etiopathogenesis. Their treatment requires an interdisciplinary team. This paper discusses some characteristics and the most common difficulties encountered by such a team (multiple transfers, concealed alliances, role inversion, dissociation). Since their task that is carried out with patients in a critical situation and conflicting families, the team members are exposed to stressing conditions (illustrated by their dreams), and faced with possibilities of withdrawal and/or burn-out.