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What the Medical Community Needs to Know to Support Clients
Published in Kate B. Daigle, The Clinical Guide to Fertility, Motherhood, and Eating Disorders, 2019
Can women get their pre-body baby back? What is this? I’d define it as the experience before you’re body-critical, to step back into your own non-self-conscious experience in your body, before you heard any judgmental comments about your own body or others’ bodies, before you knew that there was a “standard” that a woman should look like. While we cannot deprogram ourselves as adults, we can work to consciously challenge the thin ideal and societal programming and to encourage our children to accept their bodies as they are.
Sociocultural issues and eating disorders
Published in Stephen Wonderlich, James E Mitchell, Martina de Zwaan, Howard Steiger, Annual Review of Eating Disorders Part 2 – 2006, 2018
On the one hand, the emphasis on convergence of prevalence is welcome given that ethnic disparities in access to care for eating disorders have emerged as a socially and clinically important problem. Educating families, clinicians, teachers and coaches about risk of disordered eating across diverse populations may be an important means of achieving equity in access to care. On the other hand, cultural variation in moderation of etiologic pathways remains incompletely understood and underresearched. Specifically, cultural and ethnic differences in esthetic body ideals, valuation of dimensions of self-presentation, and perception that body shape or weight may mediate social mobility may all prove important effect modifiers of the relation between the thin ideal and risk for disordered eating. Clarification and improved understanding of culture-specific risk factors for disturbed body image and eating will be essential to more effective and culturally attuned interventions.
Strategies for Helping Food-Addicted Children
Published in Joan Ifland, Marianne T. Marcus, Harry G. Preuss, Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery, 2017
The enduring effects of programs is important. In a study of 401 girls with body dissatisfaction, Stice et al. evaluated a dissonance-based thin-ideal internalization reduction program versus a healthy weight control program. Dissonance participants showed a 60% reduction in risk for eating pathology onset, and healthy weight participants showed a 61% reduction in risk for eating pathology onset and a 55% reduction in risk for obesity onset relative to assessment-only controls through 3-year follow-up (Stice, Marti, Spoor, Presnell, & Shaw, 2008).
Gender differences in eating disorder-related intrusive thoughts
Published in Eating Disorders, 2022
Several limitations of the study should be mentioned. First, although there was an adequate number of male participants to conduct meaningful statistical analysis, the present study still involved a disproportionate number of female participants. This was not deliberate but was simply a reflection of recruitment challenges. Future studies would benefit from ensuring more male participants in order to obtain a more accurate, diverse representation of eating disorder-related features across genders. Second, this study took a binary approach to gender and therefore did not explore the experience of EDITs in non-binary gender groups. Future studies may want to incorporate participants from these groups to learn how this phenomenon presents beyond the male/female binary. Finally, future studies would benefit from using measures of eating disorder-related constructs, such as body dissatisfaction, that are more inclusive of body shape and weight ideals beyond the thin-ideal (e.g., the lean and muscular ideal).
Last Word: Ending the intergenerational transmission of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating: a call to investigate the mother-daughter relationship
Published in Eating Disorders, 2021
Isabel Brun, Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Tanya Mudry
Although researchers have implicated maternal influence in the development of daughters’ body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, others have found mothers to act as agents of positive psychological development for daughters (e.g., Kroon Van Diest, Perez, Smith, & Sladek, 2018; Northrup, 2005). In relation to body image development, researchers have proposed that mothers protect daughters from experiencing body dissatisfaction through (a) their own behaviour (e.g., modeling intuitive eating and body satisfaction), (b) by introducing healthier alternatives to harmful sociocultural messages reinforcing the thin ideal (e.g., engaging in positive self-talk that focuses on body functionality, body appreciation, and/or personal characteristics over appearance, as well as creating space for discussions of body satisfaction), (c) through encouraging relational safety and connection in the mother-daughter relationship (i.e., using kind and affirming language to promote feelings of acceptance that are not dependent on appearance), and (d) by working through their own body dissatisfaction with the help of a professional (Flaake, 2005; McBride, Kwee, & Buchanan, 2017). Overall, through the mother-daughter relationship, thin ideal reinforcement and internalization can be interrupted and a new, healthier way of relating to one’s body can be encouraged and established (Flaake, 2005).
Body Image and Sexual Behavior Among Adult Men Who “Hook Up”
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2020
Virginia Ramseyer Winter, Mackenzie Cook, Amanda Hood
Body image is a complex construct (Thompson, 2004) and is often conceptualized as positive or negative. There are several dimensions of body image, including body image investment, weight specific dissatisfaction, body image/size dissatisfaction, and body esteem. Positive body image is theorized to be a multifaceted construct consisting of body appreciation, body acceptance and love, broadly conceptualizing beauty, adaptive appearance investment, inner positivity, and filtering information in a body-protective manner (Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015b). Negative body image is similarly complex and includes constructs such as the thin-ideal internalization (for women), muscular-ideal internalization (for men), body shame, and body dissatisfaction (Cash & Smolak, 2011). The constructs, positive and negative body image, are not opposites and, therefore, do not lie on the same spectrum. In effect, reducing one will not necessarily increase the other (Cash & Smolak, 2011; Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015b), so both must be examined to determine relations with sexual behaviors. In the current study, we investigated body appreciation (a dimension of positive body image; Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015a) and body image self-consciousness (a dimension of negative body image; Wiederman, 2000) as they relate to sexual behavior among men who hook-up.