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Challenging the BMI: Body Mass Index or Body Myth Insanity?
Dr. Margo Maine
In this webinar, Dr. Margo Maine, clinical psychologist, challenges our nearly religious reliance on the BMI in attempts to prevent or treat eating disorders. Reviewing the lack of scientific basis for the BMI, Dr. Maine illustrates how our culture’s obsession with thinness and dieting has contributed to the exponential and global increase of eating disorders. Demonstrating that the current fascination with the Body Mass Index is based far less on science and much more on this Body Myth Insanity, Dr. Maine challenges the audience to join her in converting her (well-justified) anger regarding this misuse of science that the ensuing damage to our health into the service of love, through activism and advocacy. This webinar was offered as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2012.
Fighting Like a Girl: Myths, Realities, Solutions
Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown
You think you know what that girlfight is all about? You are treating the symptom, not the cause.
Both in media and in reality, girl fighting happens. Join expert Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown to discover the root causes of aggression among girls, how movies, magazines, and chick lit contribute to the problem, and innovative ways to help girls see one another as allies.
Identity is no longer an “I” affair. Erin Brockette Reilly (MFA)
A vital part of growing up is developing one’s identity. With ubiquitous access to others and easy access to participating in varied communities, how do we communicate ourselves to the world? The lines between our public and private lives have blurred with the rise of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other social networking sites. Often it is not only ourselves that make choices in how we sculpt our identity. What we choose to share and not share, but also the communities we participate in. There is a need to start a dialogue with each other as those around us add to the building of one’s own identity and the identity of us as a collective.
Deadly Diets and Hunger Pains: Helping Girls & Teens Build Resilience Against Eating Disorders
Deborah Russo, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Why are depression, anxiety and eating disorders increasing in prevalence among girls and teens? And, why are their voices more vulnerable and silent during one of the most exciting times of their development?
How does the powerful influence of our current media culture shape the beliefs and attitudes of our youth? From deprivation to overindulgence, distorted messages are confusing and contradicting to many girls, making it difficult to develop a healthy and confident “self.” Parents, educators, institutions and peers may also contribute to giving girls unhealthy messages without even being aware.
In this webinar, eating disorder specialist, Dr. Deborah Russo of Remuda Ranch Treatment Programs, reviews the multiple influences that increase vulnerability to eating disorders and corrupt healthy development. Ways that girls can build resilience and develop life skills to resist the internalization of destructive messages will be highlighted. Effective strategies to include at home and within health education programs will also be addressed.
A 2007 American Psychological Association Taskforce Report on the Sexualization of Girls documents how the relentless barrage of sexualized media messages compromises girls' healthy social, emotional, and physical development. Showing popular ad campaigns and describing marketing strategies, Dr. Brown explores the images that overwhelm girls each day and exposes the stereotypes and limited choices they present. Paying specific attention to the co-opting of girl power, the sexualization of young girls in media, and the erosion of the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Dr. Brown addresses the need for strength-based approaches that give girls more voice, control, and creative outlets for activism, such as PBG (Powered By Girl), an online campaign developed by Hardy Girls Healthy Women and SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge), an intergenerational movement to push back on the sexualization of girls in media.
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