Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women With Eating Disorders - A Hidden Community Among Us

This book explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in underrepresented populations. More broadly, this book discusses the need for culturally sensitive prevention, intervention, and care in mental health.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Research

Chapter 2: Conversations Revealed: Mind, Body, and Soul

Chapter 3: Mind, Body, and Soul's Eating Disorder Journeys: Unique Contributors and Commonalities across Four Dominant Themes

Chapter 4: Impacts of Community-Based Prevention, Intervention, and Wellness Programs on Healthy Self-Concept

Chapter 5: Some Recommendations for Schools, Clinicians, Parents, and Adolescents to Prevent and Intervene on Eating Disorders

Chapter 6: The Conversation Must Continue

About the author

Stephanie A. Hawthorne

Summary

This book explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in underrepresented populations. More broadly, this book discusses the need for culturally sensitive prevention, intervention, and care in mental health.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie A. Hawthorne
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498589833
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8983-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Lexington Studies in Health Co; Lexington Studies in Health Communication; Bloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, adolescent trauma, African American Studies, anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, binging and purging, black mental health, black women, bulimia nervosa, disordered eating, eating disorders, Menta, Communication Studies