Do Body Image Pressures Lead to Mental Health Issues for Girls?

Do Body Image Pressures Lead to Mental Health Issues for Girls?

by | Nov 13, 2018 | Body Image In Girls

By David Levine, Contributor June 22, 2018, at 1:09 p.m.
It’s a surprise to no one that social and cultural pressures have a strong impact on body image among some adolescent girls. Peers, family and the media all send overt or subtle messages about the value of thinness, says Anna Bardone-Cone, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. “Yet this is a level of thinness that most females do not arrive at naturally, and thus many girls feel dissatisfied with their bodies,” she says. “We know less about these pressures, including from peers in school settings, among racial and ethnic minority adolescent girls, where the degree to which thinness is valued may differ,” she says.
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Hollywood Superheroes Are Actually Super Bullies

Hollywood Superheroes Are Actually Super Bullies

by | Nov 12, 2018 | Super Bullies, Superheroes, The Bully Proof Calssroom

Hannah Sparks

The battle of good versus evil just got a lot more complicated.The superhero genre dominates the film industry, with “The Avengers: Infinity War” alone muscling up more than $2 billion in worldwide box office revenue since April. And while most are hyped as family-friendly flicks filled with positive messaging, a new American Academy of Pediatrics study finds comic adaptations as anything but funny.

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Nearly half of school pupils say friends use discriminatory language towards LGBT+ people

Nearly half of school pupils say friends use discriminatory language towards LGBT+ people

by | Nov 12, 2018 | LGBT

‘It was painful for me – it made me feel like I shouldn’t really be living’

Eleanor Busby Education Correspondent

Nearly half of school pupils have heard friends use language that is discriminatory or negative towards LGBT+ students, research finds. More than one in three (35 per cent) young people have been called gay or lesbian as an insult, according to the new survey from The Diana Award charity. The poll, of children aged between 11 and 16, found that nearly half of young people (43 per cent) have heard their friends use language that is discriminatory or negative towards being LGBT+.

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