PSYB32H3 Lecture 6: PSYB32 Lecture 6 notes
5 Nov 2016
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Understanding eating disorders - guest lecture candice richardson. Provide information and develop resources on eating disorders, disordered eating, and food and weight preoccupation. Staff a toll-free helpline and operate a national treatment and support database with over 700 service provides. Run prevention and awareness campaigns edaw, i(cid:374)t"l not diet da(cid:455) The national eating disorder information centre is an organization focused on awareness and prevention of eating disorders, food and weight preoccupation and disordered eating. Through outreach and education, we: develop and disseminate information and resources (such as our bulletin, published. 5x annually, brochures and manuals: deliver workshops and presentations, panel discussions and webinars tailored to different audiences, run annual prevention and awareness campaigns such as eating disorder awareness. Eating disorders are a choice: they"re not, like any other mental illness. People who are normal or overweight cannot have eating disorders: not true.
