Animation: Eating Disorders, Ethnicity and Culture

24/02/26

Eating disorders can affect anybody, from any age, sex, gender, and background. Yet limiting stereotypes still exist about who can be affected by eating disorders. Our film highlights the experiences of young people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, who share their perspectives on how their ethnicity and culture impacted their experience of developing, living with and seeking help for an eating disorder.  Their words remind us that we need different perspectives and new voices to broaden our understanding of eating disorders.

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PaperMate: Professor Sylvane Desrivières on her new paper: "Multimodal Investigations of Structural and Functional Brain Alterations in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa and Their Relationships to Psychopathology."

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PaperMate: Dr Valentina Cardi on her new paper: 'A case series to test the acceptability, feasibility and preliminary efficacy of AVATAR therapy in anorexia nervosa''.

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PaperMate: Dr Karina Allen on her new paper: 'A framework for conceptualising early intervention for eating disorders'

20/02/23

PaperMate: Dr Una Foye and Professor Heike Bartel on their new paper: ”It’s a touchy subject”: Service providers’ perspectives of eating disorders in men and boys’.

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PaperMate: Lucy Hyam on her new paper: 'The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on referral numbers, diagnostic mix, and symptom severity in Eating Disorder Early Intervention Services in England’.

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PaperMate: Professor Tracey Wade on her new paper: 'A systematic review: Solutions to problems caused by age transition between eating disorder services’.
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