Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders: Collaborative Research, Advocacy, and Policy Change

by Gail L. McVey (Editor), Michael P. Levine (Editor), Niva Piran (Editor), H. Bruce Ferguson (Editor)

Overview

This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity.

The ten chapters in this book seek to create a new public health approach to the prevention of weight-related disorders, one that counters the confusion and frustration from public policies, messages, and programs that recipients of prevention efforts often experience. The first section looks at prevention from a public health perspective, and the second section highlights theories from risk and resilience research that can inform the prevention of weight-related disorders. The contributions are varied in their theories and models, but woven throughout is the theme of collaboration in changing public institutions and social systems that promotes universal prevention and fosters mental health and resilience. Unique methods of linking systems and fostering partnerships across sectors and disciplines are highlighted, and readers are exposed to innovative ideas of how to move the field of prevention science forward to reduce the onset of negative body image, unhealthy weight management, eating disorders, and disordered eating.

Preventing Eating-Related and Weight-Related Disorders is the second in a series of titles from The Community Health Systems Resource Group at The Hospital for Sick Children. This series will educate researchers, policy-makers, students, practitioners, and interested stakeholders on such topics as early intervention in psychosis, aggressive behaviour problems, eating-related disorders, and marginalized youth in educational contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554583409
Publisher:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2012
Series:	SickKids Community and Mental Health , #2
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Gail L. McVey is a psychologist and health systems scientist in the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children, director of the Ontario Community Outreach Program for Eating Disorders, and an associate professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Michael P. Levine is Samuel B. Cummings Jr. Professor of Psychology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He studies disordered eating, sociocultural factors, and prevention.

Niva Piran is a professor in the Faculty of Education of the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist, and a school consultant in the area of body image.

H. Bruce Ferguson was the founding director of the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children and is a professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction Michael P. Levine Gail L. McVey Niva Piran H. Bruce Ferguson 1

Part 1 Working with Larger and Broader Systems

Chapter 1 Prevention, Prevention Science, and an Ecological Perspective: A Framework for Programs, Research, and Advocacy Michael P. Levine Gail L. McVey 19

Chapter 2 Prevention of Disordered Eating through Structural Change: The Population Health Framework and Lessons from Case Studies in Intensive Community-Based Intervention Lindsay McLaren Niva Piran 45

Chapter 3 Public Health Interventions for Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorders: Learning from Victoria Susan J. Paxton 71

Chapter 4 Mass Media 1: A Primer on Media Literacy's Role in the Prevention of Negative Body Image and Disordered Eating Michael P. Levine Joe Kelly 85

Chapter 5 Mass Media 2: Advocacy, Activism, and Social Change in the Digital Era: The Potential of Cyber-Action Manuela Ferrari 113

Part 2 Risk, Resilience, and Prevention

Chapter 6 Risk and Protective Factors in Body Image Problems: Implications for Prevention Linda Smolak 147

Chapter 7 The Developmental Theory of Embodiment Niva Piran Tanya Teall 169

Chapter 8 Gender and the Prevention of Eating Disorders Linda Smolak Niva Piran 199

Chapter 9 Eating Disorders and Obesity: Epidemiology and the Perception of Risk Leora Pinhas Benjamin Taylor 223

Chapter 10 Socio-Economic Position, Social Inequality, and Weight-Related Issues Lindsay McLaren Janet deGroot Carol E. Adair Shelly Russell-Mayhew 249

Conclusion Gail L. McVey Michael P. Levine Niva Piran H. Bruce Ferguson 269

Contributors 279

Index 283