ABSTRACT
Interventions using modern technologies in the context of body image problems and eating disorders have been widely evaluated and their usefulness is increasingly being recognized. Body image and disordered eating lie on a continuum from healthy body image and eating behaviors, to moderate body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors, to subclinical body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, to clinical eating disorders. Body image refers to cognitions, emotions, and perceptions of one’s body (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff Dunn, 1999). Body image attitudes and emotions may be positive, especially in girls and boys in primary and elementary school years (Holt & Ricciardelli, 2008), during which time the prevention of future development of negative body attitudes and emotions is the principal focus of intervention. Uses of modern communication technologies have been explored in the prevention context.
