• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.54-60
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• 2016

Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying and describing feelings, impoverished fantasy life, and concrete and poorly introspective thinking. Alexithymic patients have been reported to show a stable deficit with regard to processing and regulating emotions. Eating disorders are characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related behavior that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning. Like alexithymic patients, patients with eating disorders show the impaired capacity to process and regulate emotions. There is a robust body of literature showing patients with eating disorders are more alexithymic than healthy controls. Specifically, patients with eating disorders experience difficulties identifying and describing emotions. Childhood maltreatment can increase the risk for depression and alexithymia, which can in turn lead to disordered eating symptoms. Also, higher levels of alexithymia are correlated with a less favorable clinical outcome in patients with eating disorder. Therefore, treatments to help processing and regulating emotions of eating disorder patients with pronounced alexithymic traits may seem to lead to a higher possibility of recovery.

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.95-101
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• 2021

Patients complaining with somatic symptoms are very common in clinical practice, and are often consulted to medical department. But it is difficult to treat well. The treatment of somatic symptom disorder is multi-modal as none of the methods on their own provide a satisfactory outcome. The treatment of somatic symptoms disorders is complicated by lack of boundary, conceptual clarity, and overemphasis on psychosocial causation and effectiveness of psychological treatments. In clinical practice all classes of psychotropics are used to treat somatic symptoms disorder. Drugs such as tricyclic antidepressants, serotonin reuptake inibitors(SSRI), serotonin and noradrenalin reuptake inhibitors (SNRI), atypical antipsychotics are studied. The evidence indicates that these drugs are effective in somatic symptom disorders. All classes of antidepressants seem to be effective against somatic symptom disorders. SSRIs are more effective against hypochondriasis and body dysmorphic disorder, and SNRIs appear to be more effective than other antidepressants when pain is predominant. The author suggest that psychiatrists should know how to treat patients complaining with somatic symptoms by using not only psychotherapeutic approach but also pharmacological treatment. It will be helpful to reduce suffering and increase quality of life of these patients.

• Proceedings of the Costume Culture Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.19-20
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• 1999

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.401-402
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the Korean Nutrition Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.137.1-137.1
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• 2003

• Proceedings of KHEA Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.150-150
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• 2005

• Proceedings of KHEA Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.157-157
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Korean DIstribution Association Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.139-151
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the KSCN Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.428-429
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• 2004

유아기는 식습관이 형성되고 신체성장도 활발한 시기로 올바른 영양공급이 중요하다. 그러나 유아들에서 아침 결식, 편식, 비만, 빈혈 등의 문제가 증가하고 있어 이들의 건강 상태가 우려되고 있다. 영양교육은 영양중재의 유용한 방법으로 최근 들어 대상자의 특성을 고려한 맞춤식 영양교육의 필요성을 나타내는 식행동변화모형과 개인적 요인과 환경적요인의 상호 작용이 식행동을 결정하는 데 중요하게 작용한다는 사회인지론이 주목을 받고 있다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KSCN Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.431-432
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• 2004

대학생의 식행동, 체중조절방법 및 영양소 섭취실태에 대한 영양교육 효과를 평가하고자 인터넷 영양교육 강의를 수강하는 대학생(남학생 122명, 여학생 103명) 총 225명을 대상으로 자가기록식 설문조사를 실시하였다. 영양교육은 비만에 대한 전반적인 내용(정의, 원인, 비만으로 생기는 질병, 치료방법 등), 간식, 폭식 등의 문제점, 영양소의 체내 작용 등을 실시하였으며, 조사항목으로는 신체계측, 식행동, 체중조절방법 및 식이섭취조사를 영양교육 전과 8주간의 영양교육 후 2회에 걸쳐 동일한 방법으로 검사하였다.(중략)