Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment - Constructs, Protective Factors, and Interventions

Positive body image entails appreciating, loving, respecting, nurturing, protecting, and seeing beauty in the body regardless of its consistency with media appearance ideals. Embodiment reflects a connection between the mind and the body, which have a continual dialectical relationship with the world, and includes positive body connection, body agency and functionality, attuned self-care, positive experiences with body desires, and living in the body as a subjective rather than objectified site. This 37-chapter handbook reviews current knowledge on positive body image and embodiment, as well as future directions for work in these areas, which will be useful for mental health researchers, practitioners, advocates, and activists.

Sommario

• Focusing on the Positive: An Introduction to the Volume


• Tracy L. Tylka and Niva Piran




• Section I. Identifying Positive Ways of Living in the Body: Intra-individual Constructs


• Chapter 1: The Experience of Embodiment Construct: Reflecting the Quality of Embodied Lives


• Niva Piran


• Chapter 2: Body Appreciation


• Tracy L. Tylka


• Chapter 3: Body Functionality


• Jessica M. Alleva and Carolien Martijn




• Chapter 4: Body Image Flexibility


• Emily K. Sandoz, Jennifer B. Webb, Courtney B. Rogers, and Emily Squyres




• Chapter 5: Broad Conceptualization of Beauty


• Tracy L. Tylka




• Chapter 6: Mindful Attunement


• Catherine P. Cook-Cottone


• Chapter 7: Intuitive Eating


• Elyse Resch and Tracy L. Tylka




• Chapter 8: Attunement with Exercise (AWE)


• Rachel M. Calogero, Tracy L. Tylka, Beth Hartman McGilley, and Kelly N. Pedrotty-Stump


• Chapter 9: Attuned Sexuality


• Sonya Satinsky and Virginia Ramseyer Winter




• Section II. Cultivating Positive Body Image and Embodiment: Protective Relational, Social, and Other Environmental Factors


• Chapter 10: The Developmental Theory of Embodiment: Protective Social Factors that Enhance Positive Embodiment


• Niva Piran


• Chapter 11: Environments that Cultivate Positive Embodiment Through Mindful Movement


• Christy Greenleaf and Caitlyn Hauff


• Chapter 12: Adolescent Female Desire: Influences on the Construction of Agency and Desire


• Sharon Lamb and Julie Koven




• Chapter 13: Personal Safety as Bedrock and Safeguard for Positive Embodiment


• Rachel M. Calogero, Tracy L. Tylka, and Jaclyn A. Siegel


• Chapter 14: Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Objectification


• Tracy L. Tylka and Rachel M. Calogero


• Chapter 15: Negotiating Gender Roles to Enact Body Appreciation and Positive Embodiment


• Sarah K. Murnen and Linda Smolak




• Chapter 16: Resisting Restrictive Feminine Molds and Promoting Embodied Well-being Among Breast Cancer Survivors


• Lianne Trachtenberg and Niva Piran




• Chapter 17: Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Weight Stigma


• Brooke L. Bennett, Emily C. Stefano, and Janet D. Latner


• Chapter 18: Black Women's Positive Embodiment in the Face of Race × Gender Oppression


• NiCole T. Buchanan, Isis H. Settles, and Krystle C. Woods




• Chapter 19: Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Media Images


• Janet M. Liechty




• Chapter 20: Relationships that Cultivate Positive Body Image Through Body Acceptance


• Marika Tiggemann




• Chapter 21: Cultivating Embodiment Through Positive Peer Connections


• Nina Mafrici and Niva Piran




• Chapter 22: Cultivating Embodiment Through Positive Family Environments


• Tracy L. Tylka


• Chapter 23: Acceptance, Activism, and Freedom from Bullying: The Online Context


• Ann Frisén, Kristina Holmqvist Gattario, and Sofia Berne




• Chapter 24: Positive Body Image in People Living with Visible Differences


• Diana Harcourt and Heidi Williamson




• Section III. Enhancing Positive Body Image and Embodiment: Interventions


• Chapter 25: Compassion-Based Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment


• Allison C. Kelly, Kathryn E. Miller, Kiruthiha Vimalakanthan, Jessica R. Dupasquier, and Sydney Waring




• Chapter 26: Emotion-Focused Therapy to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment


• Iryna Ivanova


• Chapter 27: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment


• Jennifer B. Webb




• Chapter 28: Health at Every Size: A Social Justice-Informed Approach to Positive Embodiment


• Andrea LaMarre and Sigrun Daníelsdóttir


• Chapter 29: Mindfulness Training to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment


• Melissa J. Atkinson and Tracey D. Wade




• Chapter 30: The Practice of Yoga: Can It Help in Addressing Body Image Concerns and Eating Disorders?


• Dianne Neumark-Sztainer


• Chapter 31: Brain Integration, Embodied Mindfulness, and Movement-Based Approaches to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment


• Catherine P. Cook-Cottone




• Chapter 32: Promoting Positive Body Image and Embodiment in Schools: Past, Present, and Future


• Zali Yager




• Chapter 33: Cognitive Dissonance-Based Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment


• Emma Halliwell and Phillippa C. Diedrichs




• Chapter 34: Media Literacy Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment


• Simon Wilksch




• Chapter 35: Feminist and Social Justice-Informed Approaches Towards the Enhancement of Positive Embodiment


• Niva Piran




• Chapter 36: Public Health Interventions to Facilitate Positive Embodiment: Implementation and Future Directions


• Rachel F. Rodgers, Debra L. Franko, and Alice S. Lowy




• Chapter 37: Policy Initiatives to Promote Positive Embodiment and Reduce Weight Stigma


• Rebecca M. Puhl and Mary S. Himmelstein




• The Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment: From the Present to the Future


• Niva Piran and Tracy L. Tylka

Info autore

Tracy L. Tylka is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University. The Editor-in-Chief of Body Image: An International Journal of Research and a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, she has published many articles, chapters, and scales on positive body image.

Niva Piran is Professor Emerita in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at OISE/University of Toronto. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Academy for Eating Disorders, she has published extensively on embodiment, treatment, and prevention of eating disorders.

Riassunto

For five decades, negative body image has been a major focus of study due to its association with psychological and social morbidity, including eating disorders. However, more recently the body image construct has broadened to include positive ways of living in the body, enabling greater understanding of embodied well-being, as well as protective factors and interventions to guide the prevention and treatment of eating disorders.

Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment is the first comprehensive, research-based resource to address the breadth of innovative theoretical concepts and related practices concerning positive ways of living in the body, including positive body image and embodiment. Presenting 37 chapters by world-renowned experts in body image and eating behaviors, this state-of-the-art collection delineates constructs of positive body image and embodiment, as well as social environments (such as families, peers, schools, media, and the Internet) and therapeutic processes that can enhance them. Constructs examined include positive embodiment, body appreciation, body functionality, body image flexibility, broad conceptualization of beauty, intuitive eating, and attuned sexuality. Also discussed are protective factors, such as environments that promote body acceptance, personal safety, diversity, and activism, and a resistant stance towards objectification, media images, and restrictive feminine ideals. The handbook also explores how therapeutic interventions (including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Dissonance, and many more) and public health and policy initiatives can inform scholarly, clinical, and prevention-based work in the field of eating disorders.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Niva Piran, Niva (Professor Piran, Piran Niva
• Con la collaborazione di: Tracy L. Tylka (Editore), Tylka Tracy L. (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.05.2019
• EAN: 9780190841874
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084187-4
• Pagine: 464
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Eating disorders & therapy, Clinical psychology, Social Work, Gender studies, gender groups, Eating disorders and therapy