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Preventing Eating Disorders, complete with a variety of prevention strategies, programs, and approaches, is designed for health and mental health workers, educators, researchers, students, and interested members of the community at large who wish to prevent eating disorders and related problems (e.g., negative body image). Building bridges between academic and community-based knowledge and activism, this book describes prevention at the societal, institutional, familial, and individual levels, and focuses on increasing resilience and protective factors as well as reducing the vulnerability to disordered eating.
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This comprehensive resource provides multiple prevention
strategies, programs, and approaches for health and mental health
workers, educators, researchers, students, and interested members
of the community at large who work to prevent eating disorders and
related problems.
Journeys of Embodiment at the Intersection of Body and Culture: The
Developmental Theory of Embodiment describes an innovative
developmental and feminist theory-understanding embodiment-to
provide a new perspective on the interactions between the social
environment of girls and young women of different social locations
and their embodied experience of engagement with the world around
them. The book proposes that the multitude of social experiences
described by girls and women shape their body experiences via three
core pathways: experiences in the physical domain, experiences in
the mental domain and experiences related directly to social power.
The book is structured around each developmental stage in the body
journey of girls and young women, as influenced by their experience
of embodiment. The theory builds on the emergent constructs of
'embodiment' and 'body journey,' and the key social experiences
which shape embodiment throughout development and adolescence-from
agency, functionality and passion during early childhood to
restriction, shame and varied expressions of self-harm during and
following puberty. By addressing not only adverse experiences at
the intersection of gender, social class, ethnocultural grouping,
resilience and facilitative social factors, the theory outlines
constructive pathways toward transformation. It contends that both
protective and risk factors are organized along these three
pathways, with the positive and negative aspects conceptualized as
Physical Freedom (vs. Corseting), Mental Freedom (vs. Corseting),
and Social Power (vs. Disempowerment and Disconnection).
For five decades, negative body image has been a major focus of
study due to its association with psychological and social
morbidity, including eating disorders. However, more recently the
body image construct has broadened to include positive ways of
living in the body, enabling greater understanding of embodied
well-being, as well as protective factors and interventions to
guide the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Handbook of
Positive Body Image and Embodiment is the first comprehensive,
research-based resource to address the breadth of innovative
theoretical concepts and related practices concerning positive ways
of living in the body, including positive body image and
embodiment. Presenting 37 chapters by world-renowned experts in
body image and eating behaviors, this state-of-the-art collection
delineates constructs of positive body image and embodiment, as
well as social environments (such as families, peers, schools,
media, and the Internet) and therapeutic processes that can enhance
them. Constructs examined include positive embodiment, body
appreciation, body functionality, body image flexibility, broad
conceptualization of beauty, intuitive eating, and attuned
sexuality. Also discussed are protective factors, such as
environments that promote body acceptance, personal safety,
diversity, and activism, and a resistant stance towards
objectification, media images, and restrictive feminine ideals. The
handbook also explores how therapeutic interventions (including
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Dissonance, and many
more) and public health and policy initiatives can inform
scholarly, clinical, and prevention-based work in the field of
eating disorders.
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