Preventing Eating Disorders among Pre-Teen Girls: A by Beverly Menassa

By Beverly Menassa

A needs to for folks, lecturers and counselors, this ebook ambitions preadolescent women aiming to interact them in academic activites that would empower them to prevent consuming issues. the writer examines consuming problems from sociocultural and feminist views displaying how issues are pretty much brought on by overexposure to media messages, an unrealistic cultural fascination with thinness, via non-stop anaylsis of bodies and a disordered cultural view of nutrition. Then Menassa offers a 10-session advisor to prevention that engages women in actions to spur and empower their autonomous considering and reasoning. for instance, women turn into watchdogs of the media and write to businesses that current ladies in a destructive mild of their ads. the women problem ingrained ideals and exchange them with fitter ones.

Preadolescence is a time whilst ladies' minds are malleable and they're prepared to problem tested actions, reminiscent of media displays. as soon as women hit puberty, many can have already built disordered consuming behaviors; many can have been on a number of diets; hence, starting the paintings to decode and wrestle destructive messages ahead of that level is crucial.

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