The Treatments for Eating Disorders Have Not Been Easy to Identify

question 26

Multiple Choice

The treatments for eating disorders have not been easy to identify because

• A) it is difficult to diagnose the physical symptoms of anorexia nervosa,thus many cases go undiagnosed.
• B) the interaction of sociocultural,psychological,and hormonal factors makes the best course of action difficult to determine.
• C) the onset of eating disorders is confounded with the onset of puberty,making it difficult to tell what the cause of the individual's disorder is.
• D) teenagers are extremely difficult to talk to and are not very good at communicating what they would like their treatment to be.

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