Title

The Impact Of Stigma On The Child With Obesity: Implications For Social Work Practice And Research

Keywords

Children; Obesity; Social work; Stigma

Abstract

Childhood obesity has greatly increased in the past 20 years and is highly stigmatized in today's society. The effectiveness of obesity prevention efforts is threatened by the systemic impact of stigma that surrounds obesity. As childhood obesity increases so to does the responsibility of social workers to implement multi level interventions that not only assist children who are experiencing stigmatization, but are aimed at reducing stigmatization. This article reviews the origins of overweight stigmatization and the psychosocial influences of such stigmatization. The implications for social work practice and research from a systemic approach are addressed. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Publication Date

6-10-2010

Publication Title

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volume

27

Issue

4

Number of Pages

309-321

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-010-0208-7

Socpus ID

77954689678 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77954689678

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