Healthy Eating in Schools - Evidence-Based Interventions to Help Kids Thrive

Provides a conceptual model for understanding both obesity and eating disordered behaviours. Specifically, it advocates for body acceptance and intuitive eating - a flexible, healthy eating behaviour involving awareness of the body's hunger and satiety cues. The chapters review evidence-based school interventions in nutrition, self-regulation, exercise, body acceptance, media literacy, and mindfulness. Guidance is also provided for identifying, referring, and supporting students with emerging eating disorders.

List of contents

Introduction
I. Conceptual Framework

1. Defining Healthy and Intuitive Eating
2. Why We Eat the Way We Do: The Role of Personal and External Factors

II. The Healthy Student Approach

1. Rationale for a Three-Pillar Approach
2. Pillar I: Intuitive Eating and Nutrition
3. Pillar II: Healthy Physical Activity
4. Pillar III: Mindfulness, Self-Care, and Emotional Regulation

III. School-Based Interventions and Policies

1. Preventative Intervention: Media Literacy, Body Image, Body Tolerance, and Self-Regulated Eating
2. Screening, Assessing, and Supporting Students With Eating and Body Image Problems
3. Federal School Food Policies and Professional Guidelines

Appendix A: Definitions of Uncommon Disorders of Eating
Appendix B: Children's Eating Attitudes Test
Appendix C: Intuitive Eating Scale for Adolescents
Appendix D: Body Appreciation Scale
Appendix E: Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3; Adolescent Version)
Suggested Resources for School Personnel on Healthy Eating
References
Index
About the Authors

About the author

Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, Evelyn Tribole, and Tracy L. Tylka

Summary

This book provides a conceptual model and evidence-based school interventions for understanding obesity and eating disordered behaviors. It advocates for body acceptance and intuitive eating based on awareness of the body’s hunger and satiety cues.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine P Cook-Cottone, Catherine P Tribole Cook-Cottone, Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, Catherine P. Tribole Cook-Cottone, Evelyn Tribole, Tracy Tylka, Tracy L. Tylka
• Publisher: American psychological assn
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9781433813009
• ISBN: 978-1-4338-1300-9
• No. of pages: 285
• Series: Applying Psychology in the Sch; Applying Psychology in the Schools Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system