ABSTRACT
Levine and Piran (1999) wrote that there is “little doubt that prevention of the continuum of eating problems is an immense task: immensely complicated and challenging, but also immensely interesting, exciting, important, and even transformative for those engaged in the collaborative process” (p. 319). Although the intervening years provide no compelling reasons to revise this conviction, the upsurge of studies (see chapters 9 and 13) and reviews (e.g., Austin, 2000; Levine & Piran, 2004; Stice & Shaw, 2004) published after 1998 has helped to clarify the challenges and provide some directions for meeting them. This final chapter revisits the questions raised in chapter 1 in order to offer direct answers that we hope will have practical implications for advancing the field. These questions are reproduced in Table 15.1.
