Culture and Eating Disorders: The Thin Ideal in Singapore
The paper I’m writing about in this post is a master’s thesis published elsewhere in adapted form as a book chapter – not the usual subject here, admittedly. However, for lack of more detailed...
View ArticlePoverty and Eating Disorders in Hong Kong
Eating disorders are typically seen as an illness of the middle class, with most patients coming from that socioeconomic group. However, the invisibility of poorer patients within eating disorder...
View ArticleWe’re In This Together: Collaborative Care for Eating Disorders
This week I had the pleasure of attending a workshop with Janet Treasure on collaborative care in eating disorders. Treasure focused her workshop on supporting caregivers of people with eating...
View ArticleEating Disorders: What’s Feminism Got to Do With It?
There has been a lot of talk in the Twittersphere lately about feminism and eating disorders. Because I live and breathe my feminism and my eating disorder research and activism, I’ve been struggling...
View ArticleExploring Family Based Treatment for Eating Disorders in China
Not much is known about eating disorders in China, especially compared to its East Asian counterparts of Hong Kong and Japan. It would appear that researcher-practitioners in China are not publishing...
View ArticleEating Disorders & Socioeconomic Status in the Community
The assumption that eating disorders only impact young, white, affluent women seems so out dated as to be laughable – and yet somehow this image persists, one of the most prominent stereotypes about...
View ArticleThe Stigma is Real: Self-Blame and Explanations for Eating Disorders
Stigma is a real thing. There you go, the most profound statement I’ve ever written. In all seriousness though, there’s a big stigma problem around eating disorders, and not all of it is imposed from...
View ArticleFinding What You’re Looking For? Exploring the Eating Disorder Examination...
If you’ve ever been assessed for an eating disorder in a clinical setting, there is a good chance you’ve completed the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q). The EDE–Q is a self-report...
View ArticleLet’s Talk about Systems Level Change for Eating Disorders
This past Wednesday, January 27th, was Bell Let’s Talk day in Canada. In case you’re unfamiliar with the campaign, Bell Canada (a telecom company) donates 5 cents to mental health awareness initiatives...
View ArticleMany Types of Expertise: Recovered Therapists Reflecting on Recovery
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of noise in the social media sphere about whether or not those who have recovered from eating disorders should be treating eating disorders. Some have come out on the...
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