Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders

A Hidden Community among Us

Stephanie A. Hawthorne

Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Hidden Community among Us explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in underrepresented populations. People of all ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds are susceptible to their grips, yet black women and children are experiencing eating disorders and suffering in silence due to shame and stigma. Due to barriers such as the conventional thought that eating disorders do not occur in the black community, they are often not acknowledged, discussed, or treated properly. Stephanie Hawthorne argues that these women’s lived experiences substantiate the need for culturally sensitive and inclusive prevention, intervention, and care when it comes to mental health, and offers recommendations to schools, clinicians, parents, and adolescents to accomplish this goal. Scholars of communication, mental health, race studies, education, and medicine will find this book particularly useful.

Lexington Books

Pages: 140 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-4985-8983-3 • Hardback • November 2019 • $104.00 • (£80.00)

978-1-4985-8912-3 • eBook • November 2019 • $98.50 • (£76.00)

Series: Lexington Studies in Health Communication

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Psychology / Mental Health

Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders

A Hidden Community among Us

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Summary

Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Hidden Community among Us explores how the realities of three young black women who have experienced eating disorders since childhood were transformed, discussing the larger implications of disordered eating in underrepresented populations. People of all ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds are susceptible to their grips, yet black women and children are experiencing eating disorders and suffering in silence due to shame and stigma. Due to barriers such as the conventional thought that eating disorders do not occur in the black community, they are often not acknowledged, discussed, or treated properly. Stephanie Hawthorne argues that these women’s lived experiences substantiate the need for culturally sensitive and inclusive prevention, intervention, and care when it comes to mental health, and offers recommendations to schools, clinicians, parents, and adolescents to accomplish this goal. Scholars of communication, mental health, race studies, education, and medicine will find this book particularly useful.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 140 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼

978-1-4985-8983-3 • Hardback • November 2019 • $104.00 • (£80.00)

978-1-4985-8912-3 • eBook • November 2019 • $98.50 • (£76.00)

Series: Lexington Studies in Health Communication

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Psychology / Mental Health

Author

Stephanie Hawthorne is lead mentor and adjunct professor at William Jessup University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Research

Chapter 2: Conversations Revealed: Mind, Body, and Soul

Chapter 3: Mind, Body, and Soul’s Eating Disorder Journeys: Unique Contributors and Commonalities across Four Dominant Themes

Chapter 4: Impacts of Community-Based Prevention, Intervention, and Wellness Programs on Healthy Self-Concept

Chapter 5: Some Recommendations for Schools, Clinicians, Parents, and Adolescents to Prevent and Intervene on Eating Disorders

Chapter 6: The Conversation Must Continue