Summary: Full Of Ourselves PLUS

Full of Ourselves PLUS is a prevention program centered around adolescent girls ages 11-13. The objective of this program is to teach adolescent girls, “to integrate eating disorder and obesity prevention programs with the goal of improving body-esteem, physical activity, and nutritional habits for adolescent females”(Reel et al. (2010) pg. 110). They did this by holding an 8-week program with 1.5 hour sessions every week, where they engaged in activities such as: building their own snack, group discussions, physical outside games, and acted out scenarios. There were a few negative aspects about the program that we took into consideration when we designed our prevention program. Full of Ourselves PLUS was only opened to female adolescents,
Topics such as, “Girls’ changing bodies in puberty, size discrimination, media literacy, assertiveness and response strategies to bullying”(Reel et al. (2010) pg. 111). This openness allows the girls to say what’s on their mind about things that rarely get talked about. We think that our program could use a time each week to allow the participants to talk freely about what they have learned and get advice from the instructors, as well as their peers. Another component of the program that we will be considering for our program will be the use of professional educators. Reel et al. (2010) had “staff including two Health Promotion and Education graduate students and two professionals (a Ph.D. and Licensed Clinical Service Worker) who attended the weekly sessions”(pg. 110). This lets the parents know that well-educated individuals are administering the program. We considered holding our program during school and using teachers to be in charge of teaching the students. Instead, we thought it best to allow people who know the information best to educate the