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Book SynopsisNarrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Hidden Community among Us explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in underrepresented populations. People of all ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds are susceptible to their grips, yet black women and children are experiencing eating disorders and suffering in silence due to shame and stigma. Due to barriers such as the conventional thought that eating disorders do not occur in the black community, they are often not acknowledged, discussed, or treated properly. Stephanie Hawthorne argues that these women's lived experiences substantiate the need for culturally sensitive and inclusive prevention, intervention, and care when it comes to mental health, and offers recommendations to schools, clinicians, parents, and adolescents to accomplish this goal. Scholars of communicati
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to the Research Chapter 2: Conversations Revealed: Mind, Body, and Soul Chapter 3: Mind, Body, and Soul’s Eating Disorder Journeys: Unique Contributors and Commonalities across Four Dominant Themes Chapter 4: Impacts of Community-Based Prevention, Intervention, and Wellness Programs on Healthy Self-Concept Chapter 5: Some Recommendations for Schools, Clinicians, Parents, and Adolescents to Prevent and Intervene on Eating Disorders Chapter 6: The Conversation Must Continue
