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How our work is centered around our risk and protective factors.
Eating disorders can be influenced by a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. Recognizing risk and protective factors can help us better understand and address these conditions.
Risk factors are influences or circumstances that increase the likelihood of developing eating disorders:
Low Self-Esteem
Protective Factors are elements that help reduce the risk of developing an eating disorder:
Community Support
After delivering a short presentation on how to make small, achievable goals we hosted an activity where students could make New Year's resolutions as this raises self-esteem.
Low Self-Esteem
Low Self-Esteem
Low self-esteem is one of the most significant risk factors of EDs. Low self-esteem refers to a negative perception of oneself, characterized by feelings of unworthiness and a lack of confidence. It can create a cycle of harmful behaviors.
In our social media campaign, we covered not only combatting low self-esteem, but also how to combat things like perfectionism and childhood trauma since those contribute to a low self-esteem.
This post introduces our audience to what low self-esteem is and explains a few strategies on combatting it.
This post goes over the main types of perfectionism and identifies prevention strategies.
This post shows how childhood trauma can cause low self-esteem and goes over dealing with trauma.
This post presented 6 strategies to boost self-esteem, helping combat low self-esteem - our risk factor.
We gave a presentation on what community support is, what it looks like, and ran through an example scenario. We also explained the basics of eating disorders to spread awareness among our peers.
Community Support
Community Support
Community support is a crucial protective factor in reducing the risk of EDs by promoting understanding, encouraging open social circles, and reducing the stigma. Communities coming together foster a sense of belonging and an environment where individuals feel safe to adopt health habits or seek help.
In our social media campaign, we encouraged community support through spreading awareness and promoting understanding of EDs as well as providing tips on how to support friends and family while being sensitive.
This post shows the importance of a community and how EDs are becoming more prevalent in our society.
This post identifies a problem nowadays of using casual vocabulary meant to shame plus-size people, and explains its harmful effects.
This post helps recognize the signs of EDs as it's the first step to creating a supportive community.
This post raises community support by allowing students to be familiar with the types of EDs and how to identify them.
Positive Self-Talk
Positive Self-Talk
As mentioned above, low self-esteem is a major risk factor for many mental disorders, including EDs. We made this reel to encourage more positivity to combat low self-esteem among our peers in a humorous way.
Community Support
Community Support
Community support is critical to prevent EDs and other mental disorders. Youth start to value their relationships with peers more as they grow up, so we created this light-hearted reel to show the positive effects of young adults supporting each other.
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