| 349 | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
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| 8:45 AM-10:00 AM | Convention Center:308 |
| AAHE/Professional Preparation |
| Multidisciplinary Approach to Weight Management for Survivors of Sexual Abuse |
| The increasing obesity rate is an area of concern for school/community health educators, classroom teachers, fitness professionals, and health practitioners. This presentation provides an overview of the association between obesity and child sexual abuse (CSA). A model of intervention using a multidisciplinary approach to weight management addresses the need to identify psychosocial issues faced by this population. Participants will benefit by: 1) increasing awareness of the obesity-CSA association and 2) becoming more equipped to systematically address the link between CSA and food/weight-related issues within target populations. Recommendations will assist professionals in discussing eating/weight issues that may have roots in CSA. |
Keyword(s): health promotion, interdisciplinary, obesity issues
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| Presider: Jane Roy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL |
| Speakers: Retta R. Evans, Donna O. Burnett and Jane Roy, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; and Barry C. Stephens, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL |