What now?
Based on Scott & Chaelin research (2019) In African American culture food and eating often symbolize this?
What is Gratitude and Affection?
Examples of level of education, income stability, occupation
What are socioeconomic factors?
Characterized by disturbed body image, often involving concerns about one being overweight or experiencing one’s body in negative or distorted ways
What is an eating disorder?
These affect how African American women recognize eating disorders.
what are cultural factors?
About 37 million Americans face this and Black households are particularly vulnerable to this issue. This puts them at higher risk of developing eating disorders, as this creates a cyclical problem of food scarcity and disordered eating behavior.
What is food insecurity?
Individuals will binge eat and follow up with a compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
By collecting culturally relevant data during assessments, what can providers better understand?
What are underlying causes of eating disorders?
Women may see their bodies as subjects for others' comments, resulting in negative self-attitudes and body image, which increases the risk of disordered eating.
What is the objectification theory?
low body weight due to restricting food intake, have an intense fear of weight gain and engage in compensatory behaviors like purging
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Providers will need to use these when assessing eating disorders.
What are Culturally relevant assessments?
There's this cultural expectation for Black women to embody strength and resilience and contributes to the suppression of emotional needs and reliance on disordered eating as a coping mechanism.
What is the "Strong Black Woman" role?
There are recurrent episodes of binging once per week for three months or more. These individuals experience a loss of control during their binges and do not engage in compensatory behaviors regular as in the two previous disorders
What is Binge Eating Disorder (BED)