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

by McVey, Gail L.

• ISBN13: 9781554583409
• ISBN10: 1554583403
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF TORONTO PRESS

Summary

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. The Prevention of Eating-related Disordersis 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.

Author Biography

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 Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, which has awarded him their Meehan-Hartley Award for Leadership in Public Awareness and Advocacy and their Research-Practice Partnership Award. Niva Piran is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the prevention editor of the journal Eating Disorders. H. Bruce Ferguson is the director of the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children and 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	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Working with Larger and Broader Systems
Prevention, Prevention Science, and an Ecological Perspective: A Framework for Programs, Research, and Advocacy	p. 19
Prevention of Disordered Eating through Structural Change: The Population Health Framework and Lessons from Case Studies in Intensive Community-Based Intervention	p. 45
Public Health Interventions for Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorders: Learning from Victoria	p. 71
Mass Media 1: A Primer on Media Literacy's Role in the Prevention of Negative Body Image and Disordered Eating	p. 85
Mass Media 2: Advocacy, Activism, and Social Change in the Digital Era: The Potential of Cyber-Action	p. 113
Risk, Resilience, and Prevention
Risk and Protective Factors in Body Image Problems: Implications for Prevention	p. 147
The Developmental Theory of Embodiment	p. 169
Gender and the Prevention of Eating Disorders	p. 199
Eating Disorders and Obesity: Epidemiology and the Perception of Risk	p. 223
Socio-Economic Position, Social Inequality, and Weight-Related Issues	p. 249
Conclusion	p. 269
Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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