Course Summary
Gender specific issues related to an eating disorder can pertain to an individual’s medical and mental health diagnoses. Various factors are arising in the research relative to the differences between men and women who are diagnosed with eating disorders, including history of disease onset, body image disturbances, types of eating disorders, and lifetime experiences. Weight loss between genders may not always coincide with a medical diagnosis of obesity, and may involve complicated psychosocial factors, such as those seen in athletes. An interdisciplinary health team approach relative to unique individual aspects of diagnosis and treatment, including stigma and the response of men diagnosed with an eating disorder are discussed.
Course Format
Homestudy
Course Syllabus
- I. Introduction
- II. Epidemiology and Incidence
- III. Diagnostic Criteria: Anorexia Nervosa,
- IV. Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-eating Disorder
- 1. Anorexia Nervosa
- 2. Bulimia Nervosa
- 3. Binge-eating Disorder
- V. Epidemiology
- VI. Differences in Eating Disorders: Men and Women
- VII. Treatment
- VIII. Case Study: Female and Male Athletes
- IX. Summary
Authors
Dana Bartlett, RN, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI
Dana Bartlett is a professional nurse and author. His clinical experience includes 16 years of ICU and ER experience and over 27 years as a poison control center information specialist. Dana has published numerous CE and journal articles, written NCLEX material, textbook chapters, and more than 100 online CE articles, and done editing and reviewing for publishers such as Elsevier, Lippincott, and Thieme. He has written widely on the subject of toxicology and was a contributing editor, toxicology section, for Critical Care Nurse journal. He is currently employed at the Connecticut Poison Control Center. He lives in Wappingers Falls, NY.
Susan Depasquale, MA, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Susan DePasquale is a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her current practice is with families, youth and adults who have mental illnesses in both inpatient and outpatient settings, including telepsychiatry for Montana, Washington and Wisconsin communities. She completed her Masters of Art in Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Masters of Science in Nursing at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington with a focus in neurogastroenterology and the Post-Masters of Science in Nursing at the Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana with a focus in psychiatry. She has worked with small and rural healthcare teams in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada, and in teaching and research hospitals such as Providence Health and Virginia Mason Medical Center Digestive and Liver Disease Departments in Seattle. Since 2012, she has been actively involved in online continuing education program development for nurses and health teams.
