- Dedication
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Focusing on the Positive
- 1 The Experience of Embodiment Construct
- 2 Body Appreciation
- 3 Body Functionality
- 4 Body Image Flexibility
- 5 Broad Conceptualization of Beauty
- 6 Mindful Attunement
- 7 Intuitive Eating
- 8 Attunement with Exercise (AWE)
- 9 Attuned Sexuality
- 10 The Developmental Theory of Embodiment
- 11 Environments that Cultivate Positive Embodiment Through Mindful Movement
- 12 Adolescent Female Desire
- 13 Personal Safety as Bedrock and Safeguard for Positive Embodiment
- 14 Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Objectification
- 15 Negotiating Gender Roles to Enact Body Appreciation and Positive Embodiment
- 16 Resisting Restrictive Feminine Molds and Promoting Embodied Well-Being Among Breast Cancer Survivors
- 17 Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Weight Stigma
- 18 Black Women’s Positive Embodiment in the Face of Race × Gender Oppression
- 19 Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Media Images
- 20 Relationships that Cultivate Positive Body Image Through Body Acceptance
- 21 Cultivating Positive Embodiment Through Peer Connections
- 22 Cultivating Positive Embodiment Through The Family Environments
- 23 Acceptance, Activism, and Freedom from Bullying
- 24 Positive Body Image in People Living with Visible Differences
- 25 Compassion-Based Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 26 Emotion-Focused Therapy to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 27 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 28 Health at Every Size
- 29 Mindfulness Training to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 30 The Practice of Yoga
- 31 Brain Integration, Embodied Mindfulness, and Movement-Based Approaches to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 32 Promoting Positive Body Image and Embodiment in Schools
- 33 Cognitive Dissonance–Based Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 34 Media Literacy Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 35 Feminist and Social Justice–Informed Approaches Toward the Enhancement of Positive Embodiment
- 36 Public Health Interventions to Facilitate Positive Embodiment
- 37 Policy Initiatives to Promote Positive Embodiment and Reduce Weight Stigma
- 38 The <i>Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment</i>
- Index
(p. 105) The Developmental Theory of Embodiment: Protective Social Factors that Enhance Positive Embodiment
- Chapter:
- (p. 105) The Developmental Theory of Embodiment: Protective Social Factors that Enhance Positive Embodiment
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- 10.1093/med-psych/9780190841874.003.0011
This chapter reviews the developmental theory of embodiment, which is an integrated, research-based social theory that aims to predict, through the delineation of both protective and risk factors, the quality of embodied lives among girls and women across the life span. According to the theory, social experiences shape girls’ and women’s quality of embodied lives via three core pathways: the physical domain, the mental domain of social discourses and expectations, and the social power and relational connections domain. Each of these domains includes protective (and risk) factors: physical freedom (vs. corseting), mental freedom (vs. corseting also), and social power and relational connections (vs. disempowerment and disconnection). This chapter explicates these domains and their corresponding protective and risk factors. The developmental theory of embodiment has implications to a range of health promotion interventions and to constructive social transformations, which are discussed in this chapter.
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- Dedication
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Focusing on the Positive
- 1 The Experience of Embodiment Construct
- 2 Body Appreciation
- 3 Body Functionality
- 4 Body Image Flexibility
- 5 Broad Conceptualization of Beauty
- 6 Mindful Attunement
- 7 Intuitive Eating
- 8 Attunement with Exercise (AWE)
- 9 Attuned Sexuality
- 10 The Developmental Theory of Embodiment
- 11 Environments that Cultivate Positive Embodiment Through Mindful Movement
- 12 Adolescent Female Desire
- 13 Personal Safety as Bedrock and Safeguard for Positive Embodiment
- 14 Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Objectification
- 15 Negotiating Gender Roles to Enact Body Appreciation and Positive Embodiment
- 16 Resisting Restrictive Feminine Molds and Promoting Embodied Well-Being Among Breast Cancer Survivors
- 17 Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Weight Stigma
- 18 Black Women’s Positive Embodiment in the Face of Race × Gender Oppression
- 19 Promoting a Resistant Stance Toward Media Images
- 20 Relationships that Cultivate Positive Body Image Through Body Acceptance
- 21 Cultivating Positive Embodiment Through Peer Connections
- 22 Cultivating Positive Embodiment Through The Family Environments
- 23 Acceptance, Activism, and Freedom from Bullying
- 24 Positive Body Image in People Living with Visible Differences
- 25 Compassion-Based Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 26 Emotion-Focused Therapy to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 27 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 28 Health at Every Size
- 29 Mindfulness Training to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 30 The Practice of Yoga
- 31 Brain Integration, Embodied Mindfulness, and Movement-Based Approaches to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 32 Promoting Positive Body Image and Embodiment in Schools
- 33 Cognitive Dissonance–Based Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 34 Media Literacy Interventions to Facilitate Positive Body Image and Embodiment
- 35 Feminist and Social Justice–Informed Approaches Toward the Enhancement of Positive Embodiment
- 36 Public Health Interventions to Facilitate Positive Embodiment
- 37 Policy Initiatives to Promote Positive Embodiment and Reduce Weight Stigma
- 38 The <i>Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment</i>
- Index
