Anna Lewis

Professor Thomas

English 2

13 March 2019

Annotated Bibliography

My essay will attempt to answer any questions the reader has about the psychology

behind eating disorders. I want to provide reliable research to help further educate the reader and

help explain why people develop these mental illnesses. I want to display information about what

a person's mind goes through when they are suffering from this. I will use statistics and databases

to provide reliable information as this is very serious and personal subject to any reader.

de Bruin, A. P.(Karin), and Raôul R. D. Oudejans. “Athletes’ Body Talk: The Role of Contextual

Body Image in Eating Disorders as Seen Through the Eyes of Elite Women Athletes.”

Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology,​ vol. 12, no. 4, Dec. 2018, pp. 675–698.

EBSCOhost,

sinclair.ohionet.org:80/login?url=​https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&

b=s3h&AN=133922561&site=eds-live​.

This source is provided by Human Kinetics original research. The intent of this study was

to investigate athletes body image and how it relates to relative eating disorders. The results

provided that major body image issues came out of women athletes. Researchers conducted

interviews with multiple women athletes about their sport, body image, activity level etc. A fact

was created that women athletes don't necessarily see themselves striving to be models but to
look like other people within their sport. Information was said that they started to compare

themselves to others during middle school and has only increased since then. This source is

proven to be very reliable as it is from a database, a case study with results mirroring the

experiment conducted and is from a scholarly organization.

“Eating Disorders.” American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association,

www.apa.org/helpcenter/eating​.

This source is from the American Psychological Association which is already a proven

reliable source. This source will be very beneficial when writing my paper because it provides

information on the main eating disorders I will cover, as well as the psychological side. It also

talks about treatments, and how a psychologist can help someone recover. Psychotherapy is

discussed for patients to improve personal relationships. At the end of the article there is a work

cited with scholar journals and institutions to insure the reader that the information presented is

correct.

Guarda, Angela. “Expert Q & A: Eating Disorders.” ​Warning Signs of Mental Illness,​ 2018,

www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/eating-disorders/expert-q-and-a​.

This source is from American psychiatric Association. It provides an in depth interview

with Angela Guarda, who is a Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and also

the director for Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders Program. She answers questions such as are

there some common warning signs of eating disorders, what causes an eating disorder, how can

you best help and support someone who has been diagnosed with an eating disorder, who is

affected by eating disorders and more. She distinguishes between overeating/undereating on

occasion and actually developing a eating mental disorder.

Gur, Eitan, et al. “Editorial: New Developments in the Psychology, Neuropsychology and

Psychotherapy of Eating Disorders.” ​The Israel Journal Of Psychiatry And Related

Sciences​, vol. 55, no. 1, 2018, pp. 3–7. ​EBSCOhost,​

sinclair.ohionet.org:80/login?url=​https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&d

b=mnh&AN=29916401&site=eds-live​.

This source was found on a database from The Israel Journal Of Psychiatry And Related

Sciences. It provided extensive information on new developments in psychology,

neuropsychology, and psychotherapy of eating disorders. This source will be very viable when

writing my research paper as it dedicates parts of the article to the certain types of eating

disorders such as bulimia, anorexia etc. It also presents information I did not find in my other

sources as how our brain stimulation can affect our eating disorders. As talks about the new

treatments that better suit the patient and helps aid long term problems that previous doctors

could not.

PhD, Catharine Paddock. “Brains of Bulimic People May React Differently to Food Cues.”

Medical News Today,​ MediLexicon International, 10 July 2017,

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318328.php​.

Although this source is from a “community” it is stated that this source is accessing

information from the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, lead author Brittany Collins of the

Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. They also refer to Collins opinions and

findings multiple times such as how stress and extreme negative emotions impact the brain

processing of food cues, but for some reason do not relate to people with bulimia. This also did

studies where they took MRI’S of women who suffer from bulimia and found that when
presented with food cues, , there was a decrease in blood flow and increase in stress. This is a

reliable source as it is presenting a case and explaining the findings.

“Risk Factors.” National Eating Disorders Association, 3 Aug. 2018,

www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/risk-factors​.

This source is from the National Eating Disorders Organization and is solely dedicated to

all information revolving such eating disorders. It provides certain biological, psychological and

social issues that could cause a person to resort to an eating disorder. I think this information will

be very valuable when writing my essay because I can present certain factors of why someone

would suffer from this and get emotion from the reader.

Wise, Taylor K. “Programs on a Diet?: An Examination of Athletic Departments’ Eating

Disorder Policies at NCAA Division I Universities.” ​Journal of Clinical Sport

Psychology​, vol. 12, no. 4, Dec. 2018, pp. 658–674. ​EBSCOhost​,

sinclair.ohionet.org:80/login?url=​https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&d

b=s3h&AN=133922562&site=eds-live​.

This article presents a real life example of how eating disorders are conquered. In this

case talking about NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision Institutions which have a policy

that addresses the prevention of eating disorders in their athletes. This source is from the Journal

of Clinical Sport Psychology which was published in 2018. I can see myself showcasing this

source as an example of how the real world tries to prevent eating disorders in one of their

biggest demographics, athletes. It also talks about behaviors like starvation, self-induced

vomiting, and excessive exercising that athletes use to control their body weight and image.