hey eat the food (Poppink 7). The second mental cause of eating disorders is that many women feel the need to be in control. They gain the control they need from their food. “The control they exercise over their body prevents them from feeling out of control or lost.” Many of them use this control to forget other feelings of loneliness, insecurity, and depression (Hoffmann 2). These two mental causes are the most significant causes of most eating disorder cases.The treatment of these causes only begins the recovery from eating disorders. There are two main mental treatments used. They are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Based Brief Therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the treatment that is most often used. “It is based on the premise that cultural pressure to be thin leads some individual to develop distorted attitudes about eating, weight, and shape.” It uses this belief to regulate eating as well as ridding the patient of obsessive dieting. It does all this while it promotes healthy eating and also decreases cognitive fears about eating, shape, and weight (Cohen 1). This type of therapy is usually short-term and very structured. It also focuses on the present as opposed to other treatments that look for the solutions to the problem in the past. Solution-Based Brief Therapy uses seven main principles to actively treat patients. The first principle is to put the focus on the clients and their families. In this principle the therapists make sure the clients know that they are more than capable of helping themselves out of their situation. The second principle is to work with the clients to build cooperative relationships. This principle basically gives the therapists and the clients a level ground to work with each other on. The third principle is to picture life without the problem. This allows the patients to gain perspective on where they are and where they are going. It also ...
