Crossing the Color Line

Abstract

Diversification continues to change the landscape of therapeutic practice for the treatment of eating disorders, and challenges myths that the illness primarily afflicts upper middle-class college-age White women driven toward American images of slenderness (Gordon, Perez, & Joiner, 2002). However, researchers have more recently begun to explore eating disorder etiology amongst ethnic groups, and are increasingly aware that women from non-western origins including Latin and African cultures suffer (Gordon, 2001), as well as from such places as

Research Review: Neuropsychological functioning in young anorexia nervosa: A meta‐analysis

“…Additionally, all of the studies from both Spain and Poland had overlapping authors. It is noteworthy that all the studies included in the current meta‐analysis were conducted in western countries, despite eating disorders being regarded as a growing mental health issue in developing countries, together with increasing reports of self‐starvation syndrome across all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds (Merry & Andrés, 2001; Palmer, 2008). Multiple factors may have contributed to this bias, including the availability of funding for conducting research, accessibility to healthcare services as well as diagnostic practices.…”