IN THEIR EYES:How parents can assist their children overcome self esteem and body image issues. Learn tools and strategies to help increase your child’s self esteem and self acceptance and fight the challenges of body image. The workshop will leave you with greater awareness and insight into the struggles that your children may be facing, while similarly, leaving you feel more empowered and confident to be able to help them fight their challenges.

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The Body Image Project features weekly stories from real people discussing their body image struggles and triumphs, coupled with commentary from Dr. Tiffany Stewart. Learn from their stories and share your own.  ...read more »

October 2009     Minister for Youth Kate Ellis today received an important report to help the Australian Government address the growing problem of negative body image amongst young people.  ...read more »

October 2009     Body image pressures are being felt in Australian children as young as eight, a preliminary psychological study has found.  According to the study of 101 children, aged between eight and 11, girls compare their bodies more negatively than their male counterparts.  ...read more »

September 2009     A survey of almost 2,000 Australian teens has revealed that the vast majority have anxiety over their own body images and the unhealthy images being promoted, with only a quarter (27%) of Australian teens claiming they are happy when they look in the mirror.  A significant 33% of teens have had an eating disorder, or have known someone with an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia.  ...read more »

Show this video to your daughters!  It effectively demonstrates how an everyday girl can be transformed into the images we see in magazines and on billboards using make-up and photoshop.  ...read more »

September 25, 2009     Teenagers' attitudes to diet and weight are shaped by their social class, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.  ...read more »

By the Australian Council on Children and the Media     Today’s media and marketing environment is hazardous, both for girls and boys.  Much  advertising directed at children works by making them feel anxious about themselves, and undermines their self esteem.  They have to have the product to be OK.  ...read more »

3 March 2009     The Minister for Youth, Kate Ellis, announced the membership of the new National Advisory Group on Body Image at their first meeting in Sydney today.  ...read more »

29 December 2008     Mission Australia's survey of 11- to 24-year-olds has some interesting insights.  How well do you know your children? How often do you try to talk to the teenager in your house about some of the big issues - drugs, body image, suicide - and receive a roll of the eyes and a quick brush-off?

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