Eating disorder secondary prevention

Interventional Programs

Although there are many programs that have proven to be encouraging in terms of their positive impact in reducing eating disorders' pathology; however, the unanswered questions still exist within the literature that require further exploration.

• The Healthy Weight Program

Its a 4 session intervention that incorporates social psychological principles such as motivational interviewing and public commitments to change. It also helps the participants in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight by making small, gradual changes in diet and exercise.

• Body Project/Dissonance program

This is based on the principle of cognitive dissonance. This highly interactive and considerably an efficacious intervention involve the girls and women to argue against the culturally mandated thin ideal stance to shift their beliefs to anti-thin ideal stance.

• Student Bodies program

This is the computer based intervention program which delivers information regarding eating disorders, healthy weight control behaviors and nutrition and participants are given the chance to express their emotions via an unstructured email support interchange.