School Programs to Promote Positive Self-Esteem and Body Image.

This series of groups will focus on understanding and improving body image. Body image is only one component of self-image but in the appearance-based, media madness of our culture, it is easy for adolescents to feel that body, weight, shape, or looks are more important than anything else. The groups will help teens to understand the impact of cultural pressures on adolescents, to combat the negative thinking about their bodies, to define what is really important about them as people, and to learn how to care for and appreciate their body. Participants will integrate their body image into their self-image and learn how to cope with a culture that fuels body despair instead of body acceptance.

Groups are led by Virginia Macdonald, BFA, MA, LPC, under the supervision of Margo Maine, Ph.D., known author and expert in eating disorders, body image, and adolescent health. The series is tailored to the needs of each school, to be determined through discussions with school personnel.

Potential topics include:

• The media’s impact on self-esteem.

• Changing negative body talk to positive body talk.

• Self-awareness through yoga, relaxation, meditation, art, poetry, and other expression.

• When exercise becomes excess-ercise.

• Dealing with friends with eating disorders or negative body image.

• The differences in body image between guys and girls.

• The dangers of dieting/corrective nutritional information.

• The pressure to be “perfect.”

This series of groups are appropriate for public schools and private schools, grades 7-12.

Contact Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group to discuss your school’s needs and our fee structure.
 

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