Preventing Eating Disorders among Pre-Teen Girls
Subtitle: A Step-by-Step Guide
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780865693326
Subjects: Eating disorders; Eating disorders & therapy; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Health and hygiene; Eating disorders in children; Psychopathology - Eating Disorders; Psychology; Pediatrics; Eating Disorders - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Eating disorders in adolescence; General; Eating disorders in adolescenc; Girls; Prevention
First sentence: This first chapter will briefly discuss how various theoretical perspectives vies the etiology of eating disorders.
Description: "A must for parents, teachers and counselors, this book targets preadolescent girls aiming to engage them in educational activites that will empower them to avoid eating disorders. The author examines eating disorders from socio-cultural and feminist perspectives showing how disorders are most often caused by overexposure to media messages, an unrealistic cultural fascination with thinness, continuous anaylsis of our bodies and a disordered cultural view of food. Then Menassa presents a 10-session guide to prevention that engages girls in activities to spur and empower their independent thinking and reasoning."--BOOK JACKET.