Teens - Body Image and Beyond Workbook and Card Deck

Teens – Body Image and Beyond helps teens to accept their body types and inherited features, see differences as distinctions, and know their appearance is not their identity. Media messages about teen body image, online profiles, friends, sports, eating disorders, muscle madness, temptations to use steroids or diet pills, and other issues are addressed. Teens will be encouraged to value variety in shapes and sizes and to embrace their own and others’ uniqueness.

Key Features

• Encourages acceptance of body types and features.
• Addresses various issues related to body image and self-perception.
• Provides nutrition and fitness tips for teens wishing to change alterable traits.
• Includes activities such as games, role plays, and panel discussions to promote interaction.
• Offers worksheets and a body image scale for private self-examination.
• Structured workbook divided into ten chapters with interactive sessions.

Additional Information

Young people who wish to change alterable traits will receive nutrition and fitness tips. Teens with gender identity concerns will know that they are not alone and they will learn how to access professional expertise. Dating is laden with teen body image issues; teens will consider whether they pursue partner-pressured perfection or are self-directed. Teens will identify the non-physical appeal and qualities they seek in partners and relationships. While the intensity of body image challenges is validated, teens will be encouraged to build character, ponder ethical dilemmas, see struggles as steppingstones, and find ways to be charitable.

Teens like to be active and interact; games, role plays, panel discussions and team activities promote movement and fun; thought-provoking questions encourage verbal and artistic expression; teens create posters, poetry, slogans and skits; they play expert advisors to each other.

Teens that prefer private self-examination are equally served with worksheets and a body image scale in each chapter. Facilitators who believe their teens need introspection rather than interaction have that option; most sessions are adaptable for individual or group activities.

The workbook is divided in ten chapters with two to nine sessions per chapter. Each session includes clear directions for the facilitator including purpose and goal of the session, key background information on the specific subject, and interactive activities, including a body image scale, to use in a group or one-on-one setting.

Specifications

The ten chapters include:

• My Profile
• My Friends
• My Genes and My Genes
• Shape, Size and Sports
• A Different Perspective
• Body Size Diversity
• Are You What You Eat?
• Work Out or Play?
• Sexual Image
• Beyond Body

Teens – Body Image & Beyond Card Deck

This deck of open-ended questions will help teens get in touch with feelings and kick-start lively discussions about teen body image. Each question corresponds to a specific page in the book.

Sample Questions:

• Bias is prejudice against or favoritism toward someone or something. Share a time you were unfairly judged or fortunately favored.
• What personality trait is most appealing to you and why?
• Describe a time you felt placed on the chopping block or share a time you had to eat your words.