Defense Mechanisms in a Community-Based Sample of Female Adolescents with Partial Eating Disorders

Stein, Daniel; Bronstein, Yifat; Weizman, Abraham

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“…The LSI was designed to assess ego defense mechanisms as conceptualized by Plutchik et al It is a 97-item selfreport questionnaire measuring eight defense mechanisms: compensation, displacement, projection, reaction formation, denial, intellectualization, regression, and repression. This scale was previously found by us to be reliable and valid in adolescent inpatients Fennig et al, 2005;Offer et al, 2000;Stein et al, 2003]. …”

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Clinical characteristics of inpatient adolescents with severe obsessive–compulsive disorder

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common disorder in adolescents, usually treated in the outpatient setting. Our aim in this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics of adolescents with severe OCD that required hospitalization. A total of 342 patients consecutively admitted to a psychiatric adolescent inpatient unit and 87 healthy volunteers were assessed by a semistructured interview for clinical diagnosis, suicide risk factors, aggression, ego defense mechanisms, and intelligence. Patients with OCD (n=40) were compared to other four diagnostic patient groups with psychotic, affective, conduct, and eating disorders, as well as to normal controls. Adolescent inpatients with OCD experienced less separation anxiety than all the other psychiatric groups (P < .01) and were less impulsive than controls (P < .001). They differed in aggressive/impulsive traits and hospital-related behaviors from other diagnostic groups. Adolescent inpatients with OCD consist of a unique subgroup in the inpatient unit in terms of their clinical characteristics and risk factors for suicide. These characteristics should be taken into account when developing a treatment plan for these difficult-to-treat inpatients.

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Clinical characteristics of inpatient adolescents with severe obsessive–compulsive disorder

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“…The study of the psychometric properties of its Greek version showed good convergent validity, adequate internal consistency with Cronbach's alphas 0.60–0.78 and satisfactory test–retest reliability with coefficients 0.69–0.83 for individual defenses studied . LSI has been used in studies with community‐based psychiatric patients and in studies assessing the effectiveness of long‐term psychotherapy ; we have used its Greek version in cancer samples .…”

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Anxiety, depression and defense mechanisms associated with treatment decisional preferences and quality of life in non‐metastatic breast cancer: a 1‐year prospective study

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“…Most likely, these figures represented an underestimation of the actual incidence due to incomplete data accrual. Stein, Meged, Bar-Hanin, Blank, Elizur, and Weizman (1997), Stein et al (1999), Stein, Bronstein, and Weizman (2003) evaluated the rate of subsyndromal restrictive and bingeing/purging-type EDs in a series of female 10-12th graders and army recruits according to the combination of a pathological EAT score (>22 points) and the presence of some of the DSM-IV criteria for AN or BN. Between 12 and 21% of the subjects were identified as having a subdyndromal restrictive-type ED, and 8-19% were identified as having a subdyndromal bingeing/purging-type ED.…”

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Eating disorders and disordered eating in Israel: An updated review

Latzer¹,

Witztum

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2008

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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Israel presents a unique opportunity to study the role of socio-cultural parameters in the development of mental disturbances because of the exceptional diversity of the Israeli society. In the present review, we aimed to analyse the current state of disordered eating in Israel by means of an extensive literature review. The following are the main findings of our review: The frequency of maladaptive eating among female and male Israeli Jewish adolescents is higher in comparison to many other Westernized countries. Among different Jewish sub-populations, Kibbutz women have been found until recently to show higher rates of disordered eating in comparison to other Israeli samples. Recent studies show no such difference between Kibbutz members and the general Israeli population. No clear-cut findings emerge with respect to the influence of immigration and degree of Jewish religious affiliation on the occurrence of disordered eating. In contrast, disordered eating is less prevalent in Israeli-Arabs compared with Israeli-Jews. Moreover, diverse Israeli-Arab groups show different rates of disordered eating. We discuss the high rate of disordered eating in Israeli youth in light of Israel being a culture in transition that is constantly exposed to the risk of terrorism. The changes in the rates of disordered eating in the Kibbutzim are discussed in light of the dramatic societal changes occurring in these communities within a relatively brief period of time. The low rates of disordered eating in Israeli-Arabs reflect the traditional non-Westernized characteristics of their society, whereas the differences between diverse Arab sub-populations depend upon the degree of exposure to Westernized influences and the presence of conflicts between modern and traditional values.

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Defense Mechanisms in a Community-Based Sample of Female Adolescents with Partial Eating Disorders

Abstract: The combined use of immature and neurotic defenses may be associated with a greater risk to develop a partial ED in adolescent females.

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

Clinical characteristics of inpatient adolescents with severe obsessive–compulsive disorder

Clinical characteristics of inpatient adolescents with severe obsessive–compulsive disorder

Anxiety, depression and defense mechanisms associated with treatment decisional preferences and quality of life in non‐metastatic breast cancer: a 1‐year prospective study

Eating disorders and disordered eating in Israel: An updated review

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