摂食障害児の社会適応への支援

Anorexia nervosa is characterized by extreme weight loss, body-image disturbance, andan intense fear of becoming obese. Personality character includes obsessive traits,interpersonal insecurity, perfectionism, rigid control over impulses and underlying low selfesteem.Anorexic adolescents have felt helpless and ineffective in conducting their ownlives. Other views anorexia nervosa as a family problem, particularly maternal failures toempathy and administration resulted in the child’s overcompliance with maternal wishes.The support for adolescent anorexia nervosa has focused on the psychosocial problemsand the maternal-child relationship, resulted in the improvement of the overall quality of thepatient’s life (school works, daily activities and interpersonal relationships) and the adaptationwithin the familial dynamics.