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Positive body image interventions for adolescent girls
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Positive body image interventions for adolescent girls
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St. George
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Michelle
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Michelle St. George
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Mary
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Mary Trigg
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chair
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Rodgers
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Yana
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Yana Rodgers
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Rajan
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Julie
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Julie Rajan
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2015
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2015-10
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2015
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eng
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This thesis examines three positive body image interventions for girls in the United States and is supported with new evidence from a focus group discussion. Children are constantly bombarded with messages from the media, society, their peers, as well as countless other sources that tell them they are not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough, or thin enough. As a result, more and more children are putting their health and lives at risk by engaging in dangerous behaviors to achieve what they think are the ideal physique. The interventions that this study examines can be applied at the family level, individual level and cultural level. Two of the interventions focus on books; one is a self-help book, Beautiful You (2010), while the other is targeted for a family approach, The Body Image Survival Guide for Parents (2013). The third intervention this thesis examines is a New York City public health campaign called The New York City Girls Project. The support of the focus group included insight, views and real like experiences from current undergraduate females on the topic of positive body image interventions. While all three interventions have advantages and disadvantages and with conclusions from the focus group, this thesis argues that a multifaceted approach is needed when promoting a positive body image to young females.
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Women's and Gender Studies
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vi, 113 p. : ill.)
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Body image in girls
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Body image in adolescence
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by Michelle St. George
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3SQ92CN
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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St. George
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Michelle
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2015-10-01 10:43:42
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Michelle St. George
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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