Colantuono, Natalie
(2022)
Eating Disorder Prevention for Adolescents: Stopping the Cycle of Food and Body Shame Before It Becomes a Disorder.
In: 2022 Community Engaged Scholarship Forum, 1 Mar 2022, University of Pittsburgh.
Abstract
Eating disorders are the second most life-threatening mental illnesses, which have been found to follow a multi-faceted biopsychosocial development pattern. While biology and individual psychiatric implications are difficult to implement on a wide scale, there is great opportunity for addressing the social and cultural implications of eating disorder development. Directing education to the critical development period of the adolescent age may be the most sustainable way to impact the social implications of eating disorder development. Through public school-based intervention programs across Allegheny County that will address adolescent students, caregivers, and school faculty, there is opportunity to lower the risk of clinically-significant eating disorders and sub-clinical disordered eating behaviors within the adolescent population and raise a new generation of adults that have more positive relationships with food and their body.
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