For many years, researchers and clinicians who work with individuals with eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia have been dedicated to working predominantly with Caucasian females. For example, as noted in Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology,"Between 75 and 90 percent of all cases of anorexia nervosa occur in females" (Comer, 2019, p. 266). However, this may be changing in some significant ways, as evidenced in the video program entitled The Perfect Image. This documentary on eating disorders in elite gymnasts depicts one man's experiences with anorexia nervosa, demonstrating that eating disorders can also affect men. In a similar way, the section titled "Multicultural Factors: Racial and Ethnic Differences," beginning on page 280 in the textbook, highlights increasing similarities between women from other ethnic minority groups and Caucasian American women with respect to their concerns about weight and appearance, their dieting practices, and their vulnerability to the development of eating disorders.

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Comer, R. J., & Comer, J. S. (2019).Fundamentals of abnormal psychology(9th ed.). Worth.

1. What is an analysis of the sociocultural risk factors contributing to a rise in eating disorders in both men and women in a variety of racial and ethnic groups?

2. What factors present the most risk for these groups?

3. Why do you think there has been an increase in and "spread" of these disorders?

4. What is your new understanding regarding the development of eating disorders?

5. do you think it is possible to develop a comprehensive sociocultural risk factor model? Why/? (refer to the models of abnormality: the biological model, the psychodynamic model. the cognitive-behavioral model, the humanistic-existential model, etc.)