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Embracing Relapse: For College Students, Consider It A Gift, Charlynn Small
Embracing Relapse: For College Students, Consider It A Gift, Charlynn Small
University Staff Publications
The transition from high school to college can be an awesome experience. In addition to establishing independence from parents, students need to learn how to negotiate the norms of new social groups, set healthy boundaries, and make decisions about finances, academics and career planning. Other more personal decisions include whether to engage in sex or substance use. Faced with these kinds of decisions, many of which have serious consequences, students can easily become overwhelmed.
African-American Women On Predominantly White College Campuses: In The Shadows Of Eating Disorders, Charlynn Small
African-American Women On Predominantly White College Campuses: In The Shadows Of Eating Disorders, Charlynn Small
University Staff Publications
Existing literature on Black women and body image often addresses the misconception that these groups are well-protected from eating disorders (EDs). The misconception can be attributed to sociocultural models of eating pathology, clinical approaches to classification, conflicting research results, and the extant measures for assessing ED symptoms and risk factors.