Resources
The following is a list of resources you might find helpful.
Body image friendly schools resources
The National Advisory Group on Body Image developed a ‘checklist for body image friendly schools’ to provide practical guidance for all schools on the issue of body image. The messages contained within the checklist have been used in a poster and accompanying material to support school leaders and teachers in considering the sensitive and sometimes difficult topic of body image.
The materials are not curriculum resources but, using a whole-school approach, will assist the school community—school leaders, teachers, students and parents—to reflect on, discuss and take action on the way the school might develop and provide a positive body image friendly environment where, as the key message says, all individuals and the whole school culture ‘respects every body’.
The Respect Every Body poster is available for free download and has been developed for printed use only. As such, versions of this poster in Rich Text Format are not available.
Other resources
If you are concerned about your body image, there are several organisations that can help, including:
Also, try talking face-to-face with someone – there are specialists here to help:
- Your doctor
- School counsellors
- Psychologists