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Early Interventions: Being Raised in a Food & Body Neutral Household (Chapter Preview)

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Early Interventions: Being Raised in a Food & Body Neutral Household (Chapter Preview)

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In early years, children look up to their parents as a model of behavior. This continues if the child maintains a healthy relationship with that parent throughout adolescence and into adulthood. Something that is having more and more research conducted on is the idea that one’s body image forms in early life rather than mainly in adolescence (Hamilton 2021). Body image plays a very important role in the onset of eating disorders. Those with poor body images are more likely to develop an eating disorder of some sort (Stice 2021). The goal of this chapter is to shed light on how one can raise their child in a household that promotes food and body neutrality. It is in high hopes that if one looks at body image techniques, family climates, and feeding strategies, that a more neutral body image and idea around food will occur in children (Hamilton 2021). As we dive into this section, there will be a discussion on personal body image, encouragement of domains other than appearance, media literacy, intuitive eating with the practice of mindfulness, and how to have a variety food available and accessible for your child.

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In parenting books everywhere basic concepts of parenting are discussed: conflict, puberty, independence, questions, mental health etc. What a lot of parenting books do not get into are the nitty gritty aspects of mental health. Yes, many discuss the basics like anxiety and depression (As can be found here: https://www.parentingforbrain.com/science-based-parenting-books/), but what about deeper mental health issues? Eating disorders have a higher chance of developing during the adolescent years and are also one of the most fatal mental illnesses. According to Kreipe (2019) there is significant relationship with the trials and turbulence of puberty and the onset of eating disorders. If one were to search “parenting books adolescence” on Amazon, these are the first two books recommended: Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Clarke-Fields, and The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Perry. These books focus on the topics listed above like many other parenting books, and both have a section dedicated to mental health… but the mental health section has nothing to say about serious mental health issues. After a scroll down, Michelle Mitchell’s book Self Harm: Why Teens Do It And What Parents Can Do To Help appears, and it seems to be the only book on the first page of searches that address more serious mental health issues. For a mental illness that effects not only mental but physical health, eating disorders have poor representation in parenting books. In fact, as of May 3rd, 2022, Amazon only sells 527 books discussing eating disorders for parenting out of their 40,000 parenting books. Eating disorders are often a topic shied away from, but they are as relevant and important as any other health concern a parent may have when their child is in adolescence. Prevention and awareness need to be raised in the parenting book world for eating disorders.

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I know it is a longer video but it brings up so many good points! Kreipe (2019) brings up Erikson's Model of Development too!

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Eating disorders through developmental, not mental, lens | Richard Kreipe | TEDxBinghamtonUniversity

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How it Feels to Live with an Eating Disorder

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How it Feels to Live with an Eating Disorder

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Watch this video to realize the inner turmoil of those with an eating disorder. Can parents help to stop these thoughts from occurring before they get out of control?

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What it means to have an eating disorder

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Clarke-Fields, H. (2019). Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids (1st ed.). New Harbinger Publications.

Hamilton, Lindsay, & Dara R. Musher-Eizenman. (2021). From Dieting to Delight: Parenting Strategies to Promote Children’s Positive Body Image and Healthy Relationship With Food. Canadian Psychological Association, 62(1), 204-212. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000274

Kreipe, Richard. [TEDx Talks]. (2019). Eating Disorders Through Developmental, Not Mental, Lens | Richard Kreipe TEDxBinghamtonUniversity [Video]. YouTube.

Mitchell, M. (2021). Self Harm: Why Teens Do It And What Parents Can Do To Help. ReadHowYouWant.

Perry, P. (2020). The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did): THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (01 ed.). Penguin Life.

Stice, Eric et al. (2021). Sequencing of Symptom Emergence in Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and Purging Disorder and Relations of Prodromal Symptoms to Future Onset of These Disorders. American Psychological Association, 130(4), 377-387. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000666

Stice, Eric et al. (2017). Risk Factors That Predict Future Onset of Each DSM–5 Eating Disorder: Predictive Specificity in High-Risk Adolescent Females. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126(1), 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000219

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Emergence of Symptoms in Eating Disorders

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Emergence of Symptoms in Eating Disorders

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Stice et al. (2021) look at the development of symptoms showed in eating disorders.

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Sequencing of Symptom Emergence in Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia

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Promoting Healthy Relationship with Food & Body

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Promoting Healthy Relationship with Food & Body

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How do parenting styles impact children's view on food and their body? What can parents due to ensure a child has a positive relationship with these to aspects of life? Hamilton & Eizenman (2021) discuss these questions in the above article.

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From dieting to delight Parenting strategies to promote children’s positive body image and healthy relationship with food

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Stice et al. (2017) analyzes research done on risk factor studies for eating disorders. Stice then goes on to reveal his own study on this subject with a focus on female. The following are the risk factors concluded from the study: thin-ideal internalization, positive events that are linked to being thin, body image dissatisfaction, overeating, and mental health care.

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Factors That Predict Future Onset of Each DSM-5 Eating Disorder Predictive Specificity in High-Risk Adolescent Females

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over 40,000 results for "parenting books"

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