Abstract The essay looks at the limitations that insurance companies place on the treatment of patients who are sick the disease anorexia nervosa. The premise of the paper is that anorexia nervosa is a very serious condition and, if not properly treated, may lead to the patient's death. The paper brings cases in which insurance companies have forced termination or limited treatment.
From the Paper "This essay examines some of the issues related to the psychological disease anorexia nervosa. In "Starved Out", Cynthia Fox uses the example of two anorexic sisters to show that patients are often not reimbursed adequately from their insurance companies. Three more articles discovered show evidence that this is true. This essay will argue that anorexia nervosa is a serious, even deadly disease that is often not treated properly and adequately as patients are forced to terminate or limit their treatment due to limited benefits from insurance companies."
Abstract This paper reviews the articles by Allan Kaplan, Christopher Fairburn, Roz Shafran, and Zafria Cooper. Kaplans article serves as a literature review of various therapies including cognitive behavioral theory, while the articles by Fairburn, Shafran and Cooper focus on how cognitive therapy works for people with anorexia nervosa.
From the Paper "What is the best way to treat anorexia nervosa? Is one type of treatment better than another one? Why should research be spent on anorexia nervosa? These are important questions because "research shows that about one percent of female adolescents have anorexia. That means that one out of every one hundred young women between ten and twenty are starving themselves, sometimes to death" (ANRED). Anorexia nervosa does not only affect young women, but it can affect children as young as five and any adult including men. With this thought in mind, it is important to study different types of treatment including cognitive behavior. "
