Mentor Log with Casie Ollendick

October 2nd 2007 3:00-4:45
Ms. Casie and I met for the first time and discussed what my project was about. I told her that I was researching the eating disorders bulimia and anorexia. Ms. Olledick told me that she could help me and that she knew about eating disorders through a student at the school she used to work at. Ms. Ollednick and I also reviewed pieces of my research paper. She was very helpful in telling me what I could do to enhance it as far as gramatics. She kept the paper so that she could more thoroughly look over it by herself.

Ms. Ollendick and i reviewed some papers that were sent to me from The Renfrew Center for Eating Disorders. These papers included pamphlets as well as handouts. I think we equally informed eachother on what we knew about eating disorders and taught eachother a lot.


October 3rd 2007 3:15-4:30
Today Miss Ollendick gave me back my research paper. We went over my final draft. She had even more things to edit for me to edit by tomorrow when is due. Ms. Ollendick e- mailed some people for me and tried to get more help. We discussed the differences between people who have eating disorders and people who are attention seekers. The difference is that people with eating disorders are typically a lot more secretive than those with out eating disorders. People who are seeking attention are usually the ones who are out there bragging about it and are loud about asking for help. Another thing we discussed is how people teaser people with eating disorders. We discussed how it makes it worse and that all of the abuse from teasing makes the symptoms of the eating disorder worse. Teasing can increase some with an eating disorders desire to purge and not eat. Miss Casie and I also discussed how the media affected women’s desire to be this and we both agreed that it is not about the media. These disorders were much deeper and it is a disease. You can’t catch a disease from the T.V or from magazines.



October 10th 2007 3:15-5:15
Today Ms. Casie and I discussed one of her students that suffered from an eating disorder. She explained to me a lot of what a counselor does in the situation of a student coming forward with an eating disorder. She explained she would follow a few basic guidelines.
1. She would contact the parents
2. Give the parents some numbers to contact for help
3. Inform the teachers and faculty of the disorder.

The reason she would contact the parents is so that they are aware of the problem if they were not already. She also would contact them so that they can provide support to their child. Next she would give the student/parents some contact numbers to provide help for the child. This is so that the parents will know how to get started helping their child. Finally, she would inform the teachers and faculty so they can monitor the student. When a student has an eating disorder they are constantly being watched and their food intake is being monitored as well as their trips to the bathroom.

The student that Ms. Ollendick had was severely bulimic. The teachers had to escort her to the bathroom. She also was very promiscuous. (Students with bulimia are 25 percent more likely to have get an S.T.D than a non-bulimic) This girl was constantly being teased and had no self-confidence. Over all this meeting was very beneficial because I could see what like with an eating disorder was like for someone.

October 17th 2007 3:15-5:00
Miss Ollendick and I discussed my final project today. We talked about what my final project is going to be and how I was going to do it. Miss Casie told me asked me how I was going to do it. I told her I was filming a documentary and she told me that I had a good start. She asked me if she could do anything more to help. I asked her if she could play the mother in my documentary and I said yes. Miss Casie and I talked about what I was going to do for my script. We agreed that if I added more counselors and people who supported the bulimic girl that is would make the story a lot stronger.

Today we talked about the girl who had an eating disorder more. She told me that the girl had not really gotten help and that she didn’t want help. This is common in people with eating disorders because they think of the disease as a friend. Ms. Ollendick told me that she didn’t really know that much about eating disorders and had gotten some replies from people that she had asked earlier for help. Both people were busy but hopefully they will be available soon.

Thursday November 15th 10-12
Casie Ollendick and I met for our final meeting today. We discussed my final project. We also recapped the things we had already talked about in the past. We discussed how dieting can go out of control. As well as how girls who do ballet and gymnastics are at a higher risk of contracting an S.T.D. We talked about how the girls feel dizzzy and pass out.

Finally, we discussed how to heal. This includes but is not limited to creative arts therapy and nutrition therapy. Multifamily therapy is also helpful. We decided that Multifamily theraphy would be most helpful because you have the most support. Miss Casie and I came to learn a lot in our time together and both learned a lot from eachother.

November 26 130-315
Miss Ollendick and i discusses why people had eating disorders. Stress was a main factor. Some others included pressure and anxiety. When people are lonely they also tend to have eating disorders. When a family member has an eating disorder then other people in the family are more likely to have an eating disorder. Drug addicts are also more likely to have eating disorders because of their desire to control things.

Miss Ollendick also told us that when a child feels a loss of control that they become anorectic or bulimic. We also discussed the differences in Bulimia and Anorexia. Bulimics tend to use laxatives and binge than an anorexic. Both pople tend to cut themselves and addicts.

December 3rd 2007 130-300
Today was Ms. Ollendick and I's last meeting. We discussed my product and presentation. I told her I was doing a presentation and that I planned on using power point. We discussed stage fright and how it made people nervous. She asked me what i ended up doing for my final product and I told her that I made posters.

Miss Ollendick gave me her opinion on what should be done on the power point. She told me to explain how to help some one with an eating disorder and not really explain all of the psychological bunk because people respond better to facts and numbers. She also said that if I include the audience that my presentation will be better