Who hasn't heard a young girl wail, "I'm not going to school today. I feel so fat!" But as therapist and teacher Sandy Friedman explains, feeling fat is simply a code for expressing stressful or negative feelings. Feeling fat often really means a girl is feeling inadequate or ugly or bad. 
 In When Girls Feel Fat, Sandy Friedman helps parents, teachers and girls themselves to understand and cope with the difficult process of adolescence. This book gives parents empathetic, clear and proven strategies to deal with conflict, to recognize that "worries about weight" can lead to more serious eating disorders, to maintain a connection in the face of "tuning out" and to cope with the grungies - Friedman's term for the voice of self-deprecating negative feelings. 
 In the face of today's "feeling fat" epidemic among girls as young as seven, When Girls Feel Fat is a timely and practical book that will help all parents guide their daughters into healthy, confident womanhood.

When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Friedman, Sandra Susan

Mental Health

Harpercollins Canada

JUST FOR GIRLS is an open discussion group program which addresses what happens to girls in the process of growing up female that silences them and encourages them to redefine themselves by the numbers on the bathroom scale. The program looks at what feeling fat means to girls, teaches them skills to decode the language of fat and encourages them to tell the stories and express the feelings that lie underneath. It helps girls understand the societal pressures that they face during adolescence and the physical and emotional changes they are experiencing. It provides them with an awareness of their own bodies that goes beyond relating to themselves solely in terms of how they look. It teaches girls how to strengthen their friendships and support one another. The manual contains the complete blueprint for the program, 18 structured session plans and 25 reproducible handouts.

Just for Girls : A Program to Help Girls Safely Navigate... Adolescence and Avoid Pitfalls Such As Eating Disorders

Self-Help

Eating Disorders & Body Image

Salal Books

This manual provides a comprehensive framework for prevention that addresses the changes in girls’ bodies and the changes in girls’ lives during adolescence. It helps you enhance your individual practice and assess and develop prevention strategies and teamwork in your schools and communities. The manual includes information, skills and strategies on issues such as the grungies (girls’ negative voice), body image and awareness, the myths around fat and dieting, communication, stress, media literacy and bullying. The section on application helps you integrate these skills into your practice, develop classroom lessons, prepare presentations, and facilitate a girls’ day program. NURTURING GIRLPOWER provides background information on eating disorders and demystifies them—so that you can relate to the girl instead of her disorder. It provides counseling skills so that you can intervene with girls who are experimenting with eating disorder behaviors and support girls with eating disorders. The manual contains 16 tools, 20 exercises and a section on contemporary resources.

Nurturing Girlpower: Integrating Eating Disorder Prevention/Intervention Skills into Your Practice

Salal Communications Ltd

Body Thieves examines topics concerning girls in adolescence relating to body image issues and physical activity. It provides parents and teachers and coaches with an understanding of girls' development. It describes a comprehensive model of eating disorder prevention and provides information about helping girls in your life deal with the stressors they face during their teenage years. It details how to get girls off diets, how to normalize food and body image, how to translate fat talk and how to defuse the propaganda power of the media. 
The book discusses why some girls are naturally fat and how to help them maintain their self-esteem. It addresses myths developing around 'childhood obesity' and argues that it is our pervasive dieting culture and lack of physical activity that put girls at risk. A major emphasis of the book is on overcoming barriers that stand in the way of girls being physically active. 
Body Thieves includes a substantial listing of information and institutional resources, and throughout the book there are practical skills and strategies for use with girls. 
The overall message to the reader: how to get connected with girls, get them off their diets and get them out being physically active.

Body Thieves

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When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence

Just for Girls : A Program to Help Girls Safely Navigate... Adolescence and Avoid Pitfalls Such As Eating Disorders

Nurturing Girlpower: Integrating Eating Disorder Prevention/Intervention Skills into Your Practice

Body Thieves