Conquering Negative Body Image By Viola Jones and Edward Willett
This book was designed to help teens with topics around body image. I actually decided to read this book right after my abnormal psychology class to see how good it was. For teen and preteen readers I felt like it still did not go into the topic deep enough. It felt more like an elementary book. It also mostly focused on trying to get kids to talk to an adult and the role peer pressure can play. I think it would have been much better if it would have made negative body image something that anyone could have issues with and not just teens. I see this book making teens think that it is something that they could just grow out of instead of being a lifelong issue and that it's the larger society that is putting pressure on us and not just peers. I know my college level research showed that sometimes parents can actually be a massive driving force behind a lot of mental health issues including concepts around body image and this book should have went more into that as well. I think the book just needed expanded a lot more to actually be meaningful for its target audience. 2 stars out of 5 or a D+.
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