Kathy Kater, LICSW is a psychotherapist in St. Paul, Minnesota where she lives with her husband and two teenage children. She has specialized in the treatment of body image, disordered eating and eating disorders for nearly 25 years. Like many treatment providers, she has been frustrated that progress in understanding body image and eating problems has not been matched by prevention. In response, she authored Healthy Body Image: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too!* when her daughter was about to enter fourth grade.

Kater's comprehensive prevention curriculum is the first of its kind to produce significant measurable improvement in weight related attitudes and in reducing the risk factors for disordered eating in pubescent children. Healthy Body Image has been recommended by the U.S. Department of Health Office of Women's Health in their BodyWise information packet for educators.

*HEALTHY BODY IMAGE: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too! (1998) is published by and available from EDAP, 603 Stewart Street, Suite 803, Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 382-3587, www.edap.org