The Healthy Body Image: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too! curriculum was field tested in two rounds of pilot studies prior to its publication by EDAP in fall, 1998. The promising results were reported in a paper entitled An Elementary School Project for Developing Healthy Body Image and Reducing Risk Factors for Unhealthy and Disordered Eating written by Kathy J. Kater, LICSW, John Rohwer, Ph.D. and Michael P. Levine, Ph.D.
This article can be found in: Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention, Vol. 8 (1): 3-16, 2000
A report on a controlled follow-up study with 415 students by Kathy J. Kater, LICSW, John Rohwer, Ph.D., and Karen Londre, Ph.D. is nearing completion for publication as of April, 2001.
