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RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL STAFF AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
MENTAL HEALTH: BODY IMAGE & EATING DISORDERS
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For more information, see our Health Topics section on Eating
Disorders.
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Teen Talk: Body Image |
Gr 8 - 12 |
| Klinic Community
Health Centre |
English/French |
This workshop helps youth brainstorm ways to prevent negative
body image and body phobia through a probing look at harmful
messages presented in the media and common dysfunctional attitudes
and myths perpetuated in society at large. |
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Weight Pre-Occupation Community Education Program |
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| Women’s
Health Clinic |
English |
These presentations challenge the current ideal of a thin
body for girls and women and explores the social and cultural
factors that perpetuate this image. Our goal is promote the
development of a healthy self-image and discourage the development
of eating disorders. |
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Well-Connected Manitoba and Recovery of Hope |
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| Well-Connected
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English |
Recovery of Hope and Well-Connected Manitoba are working on
a prevention program that will be dealing with body image
and self esteem. The program will likely run for about 6 weeks. |
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An Introduction to Food & Weight
Problems |
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| National Eating
Disorder Information Centre |
English/French |
Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
A booklet describing the preoccupation with thinness, eating
disorders as coping strategies, overcoming weight preoccupation,
a guide for families and friends, finding help, definitions. |
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Body Image |
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| Heartland Motion
Pictures |
English
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Available at:
AFM William Potoroka Memorial Library (VTR/RC 455.4/.122/B63/1998)
(borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-805-8885) |
Body image is a half-hour program designed to separate media
hype from reality, to help young people make the right choices,
and develop an effective, healthy lifestyle. |
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Body Image Kit - Grade 4-6 |
 
Gr 4 - 6 |
| Body Image Works
Inc. |
English
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Available at:
Body Image
Works
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
Puberty changes are addressed and self-acceptance is promoted.
Games allow students to interact and share ideas about decision-making
related to health outcomes. Concepts such as an understanding
of media and its influence are introduced and reinforced. |
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Body Image Resource Collection |
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| Alberta Mental
Health Board |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
The Body Image Kits address issues such as self-acceptance,
bullying based on appearance and influences on body image.
Each kit provides teachers with convenient age-appropriate
resources that enables them to lay a foundation for promoting
healthy behaviours. |
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Body Thieves |
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| By Sandra Friedman |
English
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Available at:
Salal Books
Winnipeg Public
Library (borrow) |
Provides an understanding of girls’ development through
adolescence and examines the stressors they face. |
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Eating Disorders: Teen Issues |
Gr 8 - 12 |
| Marlin Motion
Pictures Ltd. |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
Through interviews with young women and men who are battling
eating disorders, teen viewers learn signs to look for in
a friend or family member who may be suffering from an eating
disorder. This programme shows the role that the media plays
in influencing teenagers, and explains why self-starvation
can lead to a feeling of control. This programme offers hope
to the sufferers of these disorders, and informs viewers where
to turn for help. |
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Every body is a somebody: Facilitator's
Guide |
Gr 7 - 8 |
| By Body Image
Coalition of Peel |
English/French
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Available at:
Body Image Coalition
Winnipeg School Division Library (155.4 EVE) |
Provides information and strategies on ways to promote positive
body image among teen girls. |
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Just for Girls: Faclitator's Manual |
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| By Sandra Friedman |
English
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Available at:
Winnipeg School Division Library (305.235 FRI) |
This manual is for individuals who want to run self-esteem
and body image groups for adolescent girls. Aimed at primary
prevention, this program looks at culture and the individual,
and includes information for setting up and running groups,
a section for boys, and extensive session plans and reproducible
handouts. |
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National Eating
Disorder Information Centre |
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| National Eating
Disorder Information Centre |
English
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Includes information about issues related to eating disorders,
including current information on treatment services available
to individuals with eating problems. |
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Nurturing girl power: Integrating
eating disorders prevention-intervention skills into your
practice |
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| By Sandra Friedman |
English
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Available at:
Salal
Communications
Manitoba Text Book Bureau |
This manual is for individuals who want to run self-esteem
and body image groups for adolescent girls. Aimed at primary
prevention, this program looks at culture and the individual,
and includes information for setting up and running groups,
a section for boys, and extensive session plans and reproducible
handouts. |
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Preventing and Treating Eating Disorders
in Children |
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| Children's Mental
Health Policy Research Program |
English
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Available at:
Children's Mental Health Policy Research Program |
This report summarizes the best currently available research
evidence on preventing and treating eating disorders in children. |
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Teacher's Resource Kit: A Teacher's
Lesson Plan Kit for the Prevention of Eating Disorders |
Gr 4 - 7 |
| National Eating
Disorder Information Centre |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
A booklet for the prevention of eating disorders for students.
Lessons include social pressures to be thin, healthy weights,
self-esteem. |
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Understanding and Overcoming an Eating
Disorder |
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| National Eating
Disorder Information Centre |
English/French
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Available at:
National Eating Disorder
Information Centre |
A manual exploring the thoughts and feelings of a person with
an eating disorder; provides practical information and suggests
alternative coping strategies. |
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When girls feel fat: Helping girls
through adolescence |
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| By Sandra Friedman |
English/French
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
Winnipeg Public
Library (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Provides parents, teachers and caregivers with practical ways
to help girls navigate the turbulent waters of adolescence.
This guide covers: Puberty and sexuality; Food and weight;
Body image; Parents and friends. |
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5-Day Lesson Plan on Eating Disorders: Grades 7-12 |
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| National Eating
Disorders Association |
English |
Lesson plan includes sections covering weightism, body image,
cultural basis for body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness,
prejudice, dieting, the nature and facts about eating disorders,
warning signs, prevention, how to help friends, and community
resources. |
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A 5-Day Curriculum for Grade School
Children |
Gr 1 - 6 |
| By Dina Zeckhausen |
English/French
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
This booklet accompanies the children's book Full Mouse, Empty
House which deals with eating disorders. It is a 5 day curriculum
which will engage students and help them understand the concepts
presented with eating disorders. |
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Beyond Killing us Softly: The Strength
to Resist: The impact of media images on women and girls -
Study Guide |
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| Cambridge Documentary
Films, Inc. |
English
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Available at:
Cambridge Documentary Films
Winnipeg School Division Library (VR3744) |
This study guide accompanies the 33 minute documentary The
Strength to Resist: The Media's Impact on Women & Girls.
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Body Image for Boys |
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| Films for the
Humanities & Sciences |
English
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Available at:
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Gurze Books |
This video explores some of the issues facing boys today as
they face an increasing flood of media generated images of
male physical perfection. Discussion by experts is interspersed
with clips of young patients grappling with problems such
as steroid abuse, eating disorders, exercise addiction, and
phony food supplements. |
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BodyTalk 1: Teens Talk About Their
Bodies, Eating Disorders, and Activism |
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| The Body Positive |
English
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Available at:
The Body Positive
Gurze Books |
This video follows one group of girls and boys of diverse
backgrounds and sizes who talk about the messages they receive
from the media, family, and peers about their bodies and eating
patterns. It is divided into three sections: The Message,
What We Do with the Message, and Resistance and Change. |
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BodyTalk 2: It's a New Language |
Gr 3 - 8 |
| The Body Positive |
English
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Available at:
The Body Positive
Gurze Books |
This video presents children of diverse backgrounds and sizes
talk openly about puberty, teasing, trying to fit in, and
the pressure they feel to look a certain way. |
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BodyTalk 3: My Special Body |
Gr 1 - 4 |
| The Body Positive |
English
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Available at:
The Body Positive
Gurze Books |
This video presents children of diverse backgrounds, shapes
and sizes talk about the negative impact of being teased because
of how they look, solutions for coping with those situations,
the benefits of eating healthy foods, and why exercise is
fun. |
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Children and Teens Afraid to Eat:
Helping youth in today's weigth-obsessed world. |
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| Healthy Weight
Network |
English/French
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Available at:
Healthy
Weight Network
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
Local or online bookstores |
The book examines four major problems: eating disorders, dysfunctional
eating, size prejudice, and being overweight. |
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Eating Disorders |
Gr 7 - 12 |
| Schlessinger
Video Productions |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
In this program, compelling interviews with several teens
who have suffered from anorexia nervosa (self-starvation),
bulimia (a pattern of binge eating and purging) and compulsive
over-eating provide a living portrait of eating disorders. |
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Eating Disorders: The Schlessinger
Teen Health Video Series |
Gr 7 - 12 |
| Schlessinger
Video Productions |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918) |
This video includes compelling interviews with young people
who have suffered from anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and compulsive
overeating. Experts in the field discuss the treatments, symptoms,
and techniques for prevention and detection. |
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Go Girls!: Giving our girls inspiration
and resources for lasting self-esteem: A Curriculum for high
school girls |
Gr 9 - 12 |
| National Eating
Disorders Association |
English
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Available at:
National Eating Disorders Association
Winnipeg School Division Library (155.4 GOG) |
A curriculum that focuses on enhancing young women's self-esteem
and functions as a training program to create and empower
savvy media advocates. Helps girls to understand and impact
current media messages related to body image and self-esteem. |
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Healthy Body Image: Teaching kids
to eat and love their bodies too! |
Gr 4 - 6 |
| National Eating
Disorders Association |
English
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Available at:
National Eating Disorders Association |
This curriculum guide uses prevention principles to teach
children to develop an identity based on inner strengths rather
than appearance, become aware of the dangers of dieting, and
resist unhealthy cultural pressures regarding weight and dieting. |
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Positive Body Image, Healthy Bodies - Grades 1-6 Curriculums |
Gr 1 - 6 |
| We Insist on Natural
Shapes |
English
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Covers the topics Healthful Eating, Physical Activity, Self-esteem,
Image vs. Reality, and Natural Body Shapes. These lessons
promote realistic body image and prevent eating disorders
via fun activities. Includes three curriculums: Grades 1-2,
3-4, and 5-6. |
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Desperately Seeking Self: An inner
guidebook for people with eating problems |
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| By Viola Fodor |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
Local or online bookstores |
This video presents children of diverse backgrounds, shapes
and sizes talk about the negative impact of being teased because
of how they look, solutions for coping with those situations,
the benefits of eating healthy foods, and why exercise is
fun. |
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Eating disorders : anorexia nervosa,
bulimia, binge eating and others |
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| By Jim Kirkpatrick
and Paul Caldwell |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
Winnipeg Public
Library (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
Expert advice on the causes, effects and treatment of anorexia
nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and other
eating disorders. |
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Eating disorders : Innovative directions
in research and practice |
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| By Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
and Linda Smolak |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
Local or online bookstores |
This book reveals contributions being made to the field of
eating disorders and includes both scholarly and practical
discussions. |
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Eating Disorders: The Inner Voice
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| Cambridge Educational.
Monmouth Jct., NJ |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
AFM William Potoroka Memorial Library (VTR/RC 552/.E18/E37/2000)
(borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-805-8885)
Films for the Humanities and Sciences |
In this program, four young adults share their stories of
physical pain and emotional torment associated with eating
disorders. Medical, psychological and nutritional experts
tell us about the types of eating disorders that exist, what
causes them, and who is at risk. They also detail the devastating
and sometimes deadly effects, describe treatment options and
define a healthy lifestyle. |
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Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating
Disorders : a new approach to treating anorexia, bulimia,
and overeating |
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| By Gregory L.
Jantz |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
Winnipeg Public
Library (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
In this powerful book for individuals who suffer from eating
disorders and those who love them, filling in the gaps left
by traditional treatment programs, tackling not only the emotional,
but also the crucial and all-too-often ignored relational,
physical, and spiritual dimensions of healing. |
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Hunger Pains: The modern woman's
tragic quest for thinness |
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| By Mary Pipher |
English
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Available at:
CMHA Mental
Health Education Resource Centre of Manitoba (borrow)
(Toll-free: 1-866-997-9918)
Winnipeg Public
Library (borrow)
Local or online bookstores |
In this book the author offers advice, counsel, and practical
solutions for understanding our needs, our fears, and our
many hungers, showing us how we can learn to live at peace
with the natural differences in our bodies and appetites. |
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This is Your Life! |
Gr 4 - 9 |
| Foodplay Productions |
English
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Available at:
Foodplay
Productions
Gurze Books |
This video and guide is ideal for helping adolescents see
through media messages and peer group pressures in order to
make healthy choices regarding nutrition, fitness, body image,
and eating disorders. This program motivates teens to build
positive body image, improve their eating and exercise habits,
and make healthy lifestyle choices. |
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Understanding Eating Disorders: Teens
View their Bodies, Food, Self-esteem and Recovery |
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| By John Brindley |
English
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Available at:
AFM William Potoroka Memorial Library (VTR/RC 552/.C65/U5/1996)
(borrow) (Toll-free: 1-866-805-8885) |
This video explores anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating
and obesity through the voices of their victims and medical
professionals. From colleges to elementary schools, we see
a resurgence in teaching individuals about healthy eating
habits to either avoid potential health risks, or begin the
healing process for those with an eating disorder. Hearing
directly from people of all ages in recovery provides insights
into the disease, what to look for and avenues for help. A
great video for people working with teens, self-esteem and
health issues. |
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