Ok, well today we were FEATURED in the Sunday Canberra Times. This is very exciting. We were under the impression that "feature" meant medium sized picture and half a page of text. We did not realize that "feature" meant 2.5 pages!!! So we are very excited :)
As my scanner has passed away recently, I will be typing and taking pictures of the articles, so don't mind the poor-ish quality. Perhaps Kat or Hannah will be kind enough to scan them in.
On the front page of the paper it says:
Too young to diet
By Emily Sherlock (she's really nice, btw)
CHILDREN as young as siz are so frightened of becoming overweight they are adopiting dangerous dieting behavior, a University of Canberra psychologist has warned.
Clinical psychologist, lecturer and researcher Vivienne Lewis said nine and 10-year-old boys and girls in the ACT were also expressing the desire to be thinner and feared becoming fat as adults.
Much of the recent media and social attention on obesity could be fuelling their fears.
"Children don't live in a vacuum but they hear stuff [about obesity]," she said. "They hear mum and dad talking or older siblings talking about it and about dieting and losing weight and they see it on television.
"I think it is alarming that children who have no even hit puberty are already idolising thin body types."
The finding comes as reports of eating disorders in children appear to be escalating, with some children as young as nine seeking professional treatment.
On pages 10-11 the feature contines. The first story is:
Australians Plagued by a Body Image Crisis
Eating Disorder sufferers launch a full-scale campaign to raise awareness of problem
By Emily Sherlock
IF YOU have or have had an eating disorder you can read the same pain, frustration and emptiness in the eyes of others living with it, suffers say.
Noelle Graham, 18, of Yarralumla said, "It is like they have vacated.
"People have always told me they knoew I was in trouble from the minute my eyes clouded over. They were like 'Noelle is not there anymore.'
"And it is true, at my treatment centre if you look at some of the really, really sick clients their eyes are clouded and they are not looking at you clearly, they are not in their head - it is probably becuase at the moment their head is too difficult a place to be."
Two other young women nodded in agreement.
All three have lived with eating disorders for most of their adolescent live sand have banded together to speak out about the illness which claims the lives of hundreds of young women - and men - each year.
They are also frustrated by what they see as the lack of support and treatment services avaliable in the ACT, poor education in the wider community and stigma still attached to the disease.
Hannah McAlilster, 20, of Queanbeyan has battled anorexia for five years, and said judgement from peers and the community was one of the biuggest challenges.
"A lot of people when the found out I had an eating disorder would say things like 'she doesn't really have an eating disorder - she is just doing it for attention' or 'she doens't look like she has an eating disorder' and it wasn't until I lost a significant amount of weight that people actually believed me," she said.
"I just really want people to understand what it is like and understand that it is not something that you choose, you don't decide to get an eating disorder becuase you want the attention, you can't choose it."
Kathryn Scott, 18, of Queanbeyan agrees.
"There is a lot of misunderstanding...Some people think it is a whole bunch of middle-class rich girls in high school who want to be thin and look like tabloid magazines and that is not true," she said.
"It affects a lot of people. It affects girls, it affects young boys, it affects people after they are teenagers, and a lot of people do die from it, but a lot of people seem to flip it off and think they will get over it.
"I know I copped a lot of flak at school."
Ms McAlister said she has spent most of her teenage years in treatment - including being hospitalized 17 times - the most recent just two weeks ago.
She was critical of servies and treatment avaliable in the ACT and said she knew of many local people who sought treatment in Sydney or Melbourne.
"If you don't have private health insurance in Canberra there is basically nothing, we don't have any appropriate in-patient places for treatment," she said.
"I just spent a month in a hospital where they didn't have any mental health nurses or anything for that.
"For a city that has so many people with eating disorders and so many people at Canberra Hospital with eating disorders all the time, we really don't have the treatment for it.
"We really need more."
The other girls agreed, sharing stories they had heard of sufferers not being able to be admitted to Canberra Hospital due to a shortage of beds for eating disorder patients, people being admitted under different classifications such as having "gastric" or "heart" problems and therefore not recieving appropriate care, recieving what they said was insufficient therapy and support, and a lack of support avaliable for family and friends.
Ms Graham said classifications for treatment in the ACT - based on weight - needed a shake-up.
"They are not taking people on what headspace they are in, they are taking them on their weight requirements and that is not how eating disorders operate," she said.
"Most people I know have been at their sickest when they have been at their heigher weight becuase you are so desperate to get that number down you would do anything."
Ms Graham has lived with bulimia for six years, since she was 12.
She hesitated when asked why she thought she developed the illness before admitting to being bullied at school.
"I wanted to dissapear, I didn't want anyone to pay any attention to me." she said.
Through speaking out she hoped she could raise awareness of the illness in Canberra and encourage sufferers to seek help.
"It wans't until one of my friends, who had previously suffered said 'Noelle you need help, this is not right', that I actually took any notice," she said.
"So maybe by listening to our stories someone might be able to go, 'Maybe I should see a doctor, maybe it doesn't have to be this way.' And if someone doesn't hear you asking for help ask louder, and keep asking until someone listens."
Children 'as young as six want to be thin' - The Expert
By Emily Sherlock
CHILDREN as young as six are developing dangerous dieting behaviors, putting their mental and psychological health at risk, a Canberra academic says.
University of Canberra clinical psychologist Vivienne Lewis said seven-year-olds were presenting with eating disorder-like behaviors while childrne even younger were concerned about their weight and shape.
"The research I've been doing certainly shows that children as young as six are wanting to be thin, are thinking about ways to lose weight and some have even already used dieting practices.
"While you may not necessarily see eating disorders in those younger ages you certainly see the start of such behavior.
"Typically people who present for treatment tend to be adolescents, those around 12 or 13. But having said that, we do get cases of children as young as seven presenting with an eating disorder."
De Lewis said more young children seemed to be seeking treatment for eating disorders in Australia, but if was difficult to determine if this was becuase more were seeking help or becuase eating disorders at younger ages were being better recognised.
She thought peer influence was one reason for dangerous eating behaviors in children, but didn't rule out the incerasing public focus on obesity.
"I think it is partly because when children go to school htey become more aware of their bodies and how they are differnt to other children...because they can see the differences the teasing starts. They are also learning about weight and obesity so very young." she said.
"Children don't live in a vacuum but they hear that stuff [about obesity]. They hear mum and dad talking or older siblings talking about it and about dieting and weight loosing behaviors and they see it on television.
"I think it is alarming that children who have not even hit puberty are already idolising thin body types."
Research she conducted last year in the ACT showed that students aged 9 and 10 were unhappy with their body shape.
"Girls were wanting to look thinner and boys wanted to still have muscles but better figures as well. As adults they also wanted to have a thin build."
ACT Health figures show there were 108 referrals to the ACT Eating Disorders Program in 2006-07, 75 assesments or treatments and 112 phone consultations.
In the same period, 21 patients aged 12-24 were discharged from the Canberra Hospital with eating disorders.
A NSW Health spokeswoman said an estimated 70 to 80 percent of the state's 550 eating disorder patients each year were younger than 16.
AMA calls on Govt to ban underweight models - The Fashion Industry
By Cayla Dengate
AUSTRALIA is one of few countries that doesn't impose weight restrictions on models. Worldwide, governments, fashion designers and events are banning underweight models in a bid to curb copycat eating disorders, yet Australia's catwalks still allow women as small as size 6 and 4 to walk the walk.
Australian Medical Association public health committee chair John Gullotta said, "International, Italy, England, Brazil and Spain have introduced initiatives that are trying to address growing concerns around the promotion of unrealistic ideals. Australia shouldn't be left behind in this."
The bans were sparked by the death of anorexic Brazillian model Ana Carolina Resont followed by model sisters Eliana and Luisel Ramos, who were also anorexic.
Models working for the British Fashion Council now have to present a medical certificate stating they don't have an eating disorder, and must be over 16.
Models in Milan, Rome and Madrid are banned if they have a body mass index of less than 18 - what the United Nations considers to be underweight. And the rules are being enforced - three models were banned at last month's Madrid fashion week and 15 models were banned from Rome fashion week and in June last year.
And it's not just the catwalk. To concide with Milan fashion week last year, photographer Oliveriero Toscani created a series of ads featuring a morbidly anorexic woman in a bid to shock women out of the thin-is-pretty mentality.
A spokesperson from teh fashion coucnil of Australia said Australia didn't have a problem with underweight models or industry pressure for thin models.
Yet ex-model Leda Ross, 22, begs to differ.
"I modelled for about 5 years but I left because I realized I wasn't that type of obsessive person. People would said things like "you're beautiful but your hips are too big o they would pull out a tape measure and tell me to lose weight."
"In the end I decided my bone structure was my bone structure, I can't do anything about it and I don't want to be made to feel guilty and think that I'm fat."
Ms Ross now works in the fashion magazine industry and said when reading magazines the pressure to look good waas still there, but could be avoided.
"Like everywhere, Australian magazines use thin models, but a lot of publications make a real effort to have real-sized beautiful people as well as thin models. I think it's one of those things where you can interpret a fashion shoot in so many ways, it's not simply saying 'be skinny like me.'"
Dr. Gullotta said the Australian Medical Association would welcome the opportunity to meet with government and industry representatives to discuss body image and appropriate guidelines for catwalk models.
Teachers need training to tackle a complex problem - The Schools
By Emily Sherlock
MORE training is urgently needed for teachers dealing with students suffering obesity and body image problems, a Sydney academic has found.
University of Sydney associate professor in the education and social work faculty Jennifer O'Dea said many current approaches were inappropriate and protenially harmful. She had heard stories of teachers weighing students in front of their peers and a high school teacher who started a diet club for overweight girls.
"Teachers need to understand what body image issues are, how they can affect what a child is willing to eat or whether they are willing to participate in sport or PE and how it is linked to general self-esteem," she said.
"In the past, we have found that a lot of teachers - particularly PE teachers - have weighed and measured kids in schools and talked about being overweight as a disease.
"Along with the media and Western Culture we have created this incredible fear of fatness and paranoia about our weight.
"You want teachers to approach the issue as one of physical, social, emotional and psychological mental health - a child's health is so much more than their weight and teachers need to really understand that.
Eating disorder sufferers Noelle Graham, Kathryn Scott and Hannah McAlister said teachers needed training in dealing with issues such as anorexia and bulimia.
"Many teachers don't know what to say or do," Ms McAlilster said. "I had one teacher tell me how great I looked now I had lost weight when I was battling anorexia."
The girls said they had recently approcahed several Canberra schools asking if they could share their stories and experiences with teachers and students byt had been knocked back.
"We were told we couldn't as they didn't want people think there were eating disorders at the school." Ms. Scott said.
"We had a couple of schools say that - it is really intersting because it shows that there is that stigma out there.
"It is putting the name of the school before the welfare of the students and I think that is really dangerous."
ACT Education Minister Andrew Barr said schools recieved many approaches from organizations and individuals who wanted to present their programs in schools.
"Principals and teachers make the decision as to who speaks at the school based on considerations such as whether the topic or speaker fits in with the curriculum or would add to a unit of work being studied by the students at the time." he said.
ACT public schools were committed to providing student support programs.
"The new curruculum for all ACT schools, 'Every Chance to Learn', has a strong emphasis on health as one of its essential learning areas including on the mental health of students to help students learn more about issues such as eating disorders, and how to recgnise them and help themselves or fellow students," he said.
Mr Barr said the department would start a new course for teachers in July, in partnership with Nutrition Australia, "to provide up to date infomration and best practice around nutrition."
Eating disorders program handles hundreds of people - The Services
MORE than 70 people were treated or assessed for eating disorders in the ACT in the last financial year, ACT Health statistics show.
There were also 108 referrals to the eating disorders program and a 112 phone consultations with unregistered clients.
Local sufferers hit out last week at the services avaliable in the ACT, saying more government funding wasa needed for both in and out-patient services and increased counselling and support for sufferers, families and friends.
The ACT has a community-based eating disorders program, which provides a free, public, specialist outpatient program to the ACT and surrounding NSW regions.
It also provides group therapy with an intensive day-treatment program for anorexia nervosa sufferers and individual therapy for those suffering bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders.
In 2006-07, 18 people including two men were admitted to the anorexia day program with an average stay of 11.3 weeks.
In the same period, 37 people were treated for bulimia, buge eating and unspecified eating disorders. Those in the ACT requiring inpatient care through the public health system are admitted to the Canberra Hospital or Calvary Hospital.
The closest specialist eating disorders clinic is in Sydney.
A spokeswoman for ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher defended the support avaliable.
"The [eating disorders program] offers ongoing individual family support and therapy to clients, families and friends." she said.
"However there is no voluntary support gorup outside of the [program] for those clients suffering an eating disorder and their families."
Emily Sherlock.
As my scanner has passed away recently, I will be typing and taking pictures of the articles, so don't mind the poor-ish quality. Perhaps Kat or Hannah will be kind enough to scan them in.
On the front page of the paper it says:
Too young to diet
By Emily Sherlock (she's really nice, btw)
CHILDREN as young as siz are so frightened of becoming overweight they are adopiting dangerous dieting behavior, a University of Canberra psychologist has warned.
Clinical psychologist, lecturer and researcher Vivienne Lewis said nine and 10-year-old boys and girls in the ACT were also expressing the desire to be thinner and feared becoming fat as adults.
Much of the recent media and social attention on obesity could be fuelling their fears.
"Children don't live in a vacuum but they hear stuff [about obesity]," she said. "They hear mum and dad talking or older siblings talking about it and about dieting and losing weight and they see it on television.
"I think it is alarming that children who have no even hit puberty are already idolising thin body types."
The finding comes as reports of eating disorders in children appear to be escalating, with some children as young as nine seeking professional treatment.
On pages 10-11 the feature contines. The first story is:
Australians Plagued by a Body Image Crisis
Eating Disorder sufferers launch a full-scale campaign to raise awareness of problem
By Emily Sherlock
IF YOU have or have had an eating disorder you can read the same pain, frustration and emptiness in the eyes of others living with it, suffers say.
Noelle Graham, 18, of Yarralumla said, "It is like they have vacated.
"People have always told me they knoew I was in trouble from the minute my eyes clouded over. They were like 'Noelle is not there anymore.'
"And it is true, at my treatment centre if you look at some of the really, really sick clients their eyes are clouded and they are not looking at you clearly, they are not in their head - it is probably becuase at the moment their head is too difficult a place to be."
Two other young women nodded in agreement.
All three have lived with eating disorders for most of their adolescent live sand have banded together to speak out about the illness which claims the lives of hundreds of young women - and men - each year.
They are also frustrated by what they see as the lack of support and treatment services avaliable in the ACT, poor education in the wider community and stigma still attached to the disease.
Hannah McAlilster, 20, of Queanbeyan has battled anorexia for five years, and said judgement from peers and the community was one of the biuggest challenges.
"A lot of people when the found out I had an eating disorder would say things like 'she doesn't really have an eating disorder - she is just doing it for attention' or 'she doens't look like she has an eating disorder' and it wasn't until I lost a significant amount of weight that people actually believed me," she said.
"I just really want people to understand what it is like and understand that it is not something that you choose, you don't decide to get an eating disorder becuase you want the attention, you can't choose it."
Kathryn Scott, 18, of Queanbeyan agrees.
"There is a lot of misunderstanding...Some people think it is a whole bunch of middle-class rich girls in high school who want to be thin and look like tabloid magazines and that is not true," she said.
"It affects a lot of people. It affects girls, it affects young boys, it affects people after they are teenagers, and a lot of people do die from it, but a lot of people seem to flip it off and think they will get over it.
"I know I copped a lot of flak at school."
Ms McAlister said she has spent most of her teenage years in treatment - including being hospitalized 17 times - the most recent just two weeks ago.
She was critical of servies and treatment avaliable in the ACT and said she knew of many local people who sought treatment in Sydney or Melbourne.
"If you don't have private health insurance in Canberra there is basically nothing, we don't have any appropriate in-patient places for treatment," she said.
"I just spent a month in a hospital where they didn't have any mental health nurses or anything for that.
"For a city that has so many people with eating disorders and so many people at Canberra Hospital with eating disorders all the time, we really don't have the treatment for it.
"We really need more."
The other girls agreed, sharing stories they had heard of sufferers not being able to be admitted to Canberra Hospital due to a shortage of beds for eating disorder patients, people being admitted under different classifications such as having "gastric" or "heart" problems and therefore not recieving appropriate care, recieving what they said was insufficient therapy and support, and a lack of support avaliable for family and friends.
Ms Graham said classifications for treatment in the ACT - based on weight - needed a shake-up.
"They are not taking people on what headspace they are in, they are taking them on their weight requirements and that is not how eating disorders operate," she said.
"Most people I know have been at their sickest when they have been at their heigher weight becuase you are so desperate to get that number down you would do anything."
Ms Graham has lived with bulimia for six years, since she was 12.
She hesitated when asked why she thought she developed the illness before admitting to being bullied at school.
"I wanted to dissapear, I didn't want anyone to pay any attention to me." she said.
Through speaking out she hoped she could raise awareness of the illness in Canberra and encourage sufferers to seek help.
"It wans't until one of my friends, who had previously suffered said 'Noelle you need help, this is not right', that I actually took any notice," she said.
"So maybe by listening to our stories someone might be able to go, 'Maybe I should see a doctor, maybe it doesn't have to be this way.' And if someone doesn't hear you asking for help ask louder, and keep asking until someone listens."
Children 'as young as six want to be thin' - The Expert
By Emily Sherlock
CHILDREN as young as six are developing dangerous dieting behaviors, putting their mental and psychological health at risk, a Canberra academic says.
University of Canberra clinical psychologist Vivienne Lewis said seven-year-olds were presenting with eating disorder-like behaviors while childrne even younger were concerned about their weight and shape.
"The research I've been doing certainly shows that children as young as six are wanting to be thin, are thinking about ways to lose weight and some have even already used dieting practices.
"While you may not necessarily see eating disorders in those younger ages you certainly see the start of such behavior.
"Typically people who present for treatment tend to be adolescents, those around 12 or 13. But having said that, we do get cases of children as young as seven presenting with an eating disorder."
De Lewis said more young children seemed to be seeking treatment for eating disorders in Australia, but if was difficult to determine if this was becuase more were seeking help or becuase eating disorders at younger ages were being better recognised.
She thought peer influence was one reason for dangerous eating behaviors in children, but didn't rule out the incerasing public focus on obesity.
"I think it is partly because when children go to school htey become more aware of their bodies and how they are differnt to other children...because they can see the differences the teasing starts. They are also learning about weight and obesity so very young." she said.
"Children don't live in a vacuum but they hear that stuff [about obesity]. They hear mum and dad talking or older siblings talking about it and about dieting and weight loosing behaviors and they see it on television.
"I think it is alarming that children who have not even hit puberty are already idolising thin body types."
Research she conducted last year in the ACT showed that students aged 9 and 10 were unhappy with their body shape.
"Girls were wanting to look thinner and boys wanted to still have muscles but better figures as well. As adults they also wanted to have a thin build."
ACT Health figures show there were 108 referrals to the ACT Eating Disorders Program in 2006-07, 75 assesments or treatments and 112 phone consultations.
In the same period, 21 patients aged 12-24 were discharged from the Canberra Hospital with eating disorders.
A NSW Health spokeswoman said an estimated 70 to 80 percent of the state's 550 eating disorder patients each year were younger than 16.
AMA calls on Govt to ban underweight models - The Fashion Industry
By Cayla Dengate
AUSTRALIA is one of few countries that doesn't impose weight restrictions on models. Worldwide, governments, fashion designers and events are banning underweight models in a bid to curb copycat eating disorders, yet Australia's catwalks still allow women as small as size 6 and 4 to walk the walk.
Australian Medical Association public health committee chair John Gullotta said, "International, Italy, England, Brazil and Spain have introduced initiatives that are trying to address growing concerns around the promotion of unrealistic ideals. Australia shouldn't be left behind in this."
The bans were sparked by the death of anorexic Brazillian model Ana Carolina Resont followed by model sisters Eliana and Luisel Ramos, who were also anorexic.
Models working for the British Fashion Council now have to present a medical certificate stating they don't have an eating disorder, and must be over 16.
Models in Milan, Rome and Madrid are banned if they have a body mass index of less than 18 - what the United Nations considers to be underweight. And the rules are being enforced - three models were banned at last month's Madrid fashion week and 15 models were banned from Rome fashion week and in June last year.
And it's not just the catwalk. To concide with Milan fashion week last year, photographer Oliveriero Toscani created a series of ads featuring a morbidly anorexic woman in a bid to shock women out of the thin-is-pretty mentality.
A spokesperson from teh fashion coucnil of Australia said Australia didn't have a problem with underweight models or industry pressure for thin models.
Yet ex-model Leda Ross, 22, begs to differ.
"I modelled for about 5 years but I left because I realized I wasn't that type of obsessive person. People would said things like "you're beautiful but your hips are too big o they would pull out a tape measure and tell me to lose weight."
"In the end I decided my bone structure was my bone structure, I can't do anything about it and I don't want to be made to feel guilty and think that I'm fat."
Ms Ross now works in the fashion magazine industry and said when reading magazines the pressure to look good waas still there, but could be avoided.
"Like everywhere, Australian magazines use thin models, but a lot of publications make a real effort to have real-sized beautiful people as well as thin models. I think it's one of those things where you can interpret a fashion shoot in so many ways, it's not simply saying 'be skinny like me.'"
Dr. Gullotta said the Australian Medical Association would welcome the opportunity to meet with government and industry representatives to discuss body image and appropriate guidelines for catwalk models.
Teachers need training to tackle a complex problem - The Schools
By Emily Sherlock
MORE training is urgently needed for teachers dealing with students suffering obesity and body image problems, a Sydney academic has found.
University of Sydney associate professor in the education and social work faculty Jennifer O'Dea said many current approaches were inappropriate and protenially harmful. She had heard stories of teachers weighing students in front of their peers and a high school teacher who started a diet club for overweight girls.
"Teachers need to understand what body image issues are, how they can affect what a child is willing to eat or whether they are willing to participate in sport or PE and how it is linked to general self-esteem," she said.
"In the past, we have found that a lot of teachers - particularly PE teachers - have weighed and measured kids in schools and talked about being overweight as a disease.
"Along with the media and Western Culture we have created this incredible fear of fatness and paranoia about our weight.
"You want teachers to approach the issue as one of physical, social, emotional and psychological mental health - a child's health is so much more than their weight and teachers need to really understand that.
Eating disorder sufferers Noelle Graham, Kathryn Scott and Hannah McAlister said teachers needed training in dealing with issues such as anorexia and bulimia.
"Many teachers don't know what to say or do," Ms McAlilster said. "I had one teacher tell me how great I looked now I had lost weight when I was battling anorexia."
The girls said they had recently approcahed several Canberra schools asking if they could share their stories and experiences with teachers and students byt had been knocked back.
"We were told we couldn't as they didn't want people think there were eating disorders at the school." Ms. Scott said.
"We had a couple of schools say that - it is really intersting because it shows that there is that stigma out there.
"It is putting the name of the school before the welfare of the students and I think that is really dangerous."
ACT Education Minister Andrew Barr said schools recieved many approaches from organizations and individuals who wanted to present their programs in schools.
"Principals and teachers make the decision as to who speaks at the school based on considerations such as whether the topic or speaker fits in with the curriculum or would add to a unit of work being studied by the students at the time." he said.
ACT public schools were committed to providing student support programs.
"The new curruculum for all ACT schools, 'Every Chance to Learn', has a strong emphasis on health as one of its essential learning areas including on the mental health of students to help students learn more about issues such as eating disorders, and how to recgnise them and help themselves or fellow students," he said.
Mr Barr said the department would start a new course for teachers in July, in partnership with Nutrition Australia, "to provide up to date infomration and best practice around nutrition."
Eating disorders program handles hundreds of people - The Services
MORE than 70 people were treated or assessed for eating disorders in the ACT in the last financial year, ACT Health statistics show.
There were also 108 referrals to the eating disorders program and a 112 phone consultations with unregistered clients.
Local sufferers hit out last week at the services avaliable in the ACT, saying more government funding wasa needed for both in and out-patient services and increased counselling and support for sufferers, families and friends.
The ACT has a community-based eating disorders program, which provides a free, public, specialist outpatient program to the ACT and surrounding NSW regions.
It also provides group therapy with an intensive day-treatment program for anorexia nervosa sufferers and individual therapy for those suffering bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders.
In 2006-07, 18 people including two men were admitted to the anorexia day program with an average stay of 11.3 weeks.
In the same period, 37 people were treated for bulimia, buge eating and unspecified eating disorders. Those in the ACT requiring inpatient care through the public health system are admitted to the Canberra Hospital or Calvary Hospital.
The closest specialist eating disorders clinic is in Sydney.
A spokeswoman for ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher defended the support avaliable.
"The [eating disorders program] offers ongoing individual family support and therapy to clients, families and friends." she said.
"However there is no voluntary support gorup outside of the [program] for those clients suffering an eating disorder and their families."
Emily Sherlock.
1 comment:
wow, that's so awesome that they had the whole feature! and some good articles, too... it's so scary about the little kids worrying about their weight and things. and it's weird that Australia hasn't followed the banning underweight models thing, too... i didn't realise so many countries had started doing that actually.
and i'm amazed that schools wouldn't let you guys come and talk to them about this. what, do they really think that if they pretend it's not there, it'll go away? statistically speaking, there will be at least a few kids in any school - probably in any grade, even - suffering to some degree, why do they think they're different? wow... probably the article will have made them feel guilty though, so maybe they'll come around :P
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