Black Women with Eating Disorders (Paperback)

Charlynn Small

ISBN 10: 1324052740 / ISBN 13: 9781324052746

Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Too often, Black women with eating disorders go underdiagnosed, overlooked, and unheard. Not only do they face barriers to treatment due to unjust healthcare systems, but the unique factors that contribute to the development of eating disorders in Black women-including racism and systemic oppression-are not broadly considered by eating disorder clinicians. This book adds much-needed dialogue to our understanding of eating disorders by exploring the terminology, symptomology, and interventions specific to Black women, all of which can be integrated by clinicians across disciplines. It addresses how relevant topics in the eating disorder field-such as social media use, body image, weight stigma, historical trauma, and aging-manifest in the Black community. Within the therapeutic relationship, the authors acknowledge how treatment techniques can be adapted and power dynamics addressed, allowing clients to feel seen and heard. Ultimately, clients can reimagine their relationships to food and body, facilitating their recovery. A guide for eating disorder clinicians to support Black clients with the quality, trauma-informed care they deserve. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Women with Eating Disorders (Paperback)
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1324052740
• ISBN 13: 9781324052746
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A guide for eating disorder clinicians to support Black clients with the quality, trauma-informed care they deserve.

Too often, Black women with eating disorders go underdiagnosed, overlooked, and unheard. Not only do they face barriers to treatment due to unjust healthcare systems, but the unique factors that contribute to the development of eating disorders in Black women―including racism and systemic oppression―are not broadly considered by eating disorder clinicians.

This book adds much-needed dialogue to our understanding of eating disorders by exploring the terminology, symptomology, and interventions specific to Black women, all of which can be integrated by clinicians across disciplines. It addresses how relevant topics in the eating disorder field―such as social media use, body image, weight stigma, historical trauma, and aging―manifest in the Black community. Within the therapeutic relationship, the authors acknowledge how treatment techniques can be adapted and power dynamics addressed, allowing clients to feel seen and heard. Ultimately, clients can reimagine their relationships to food and body, facilitating their recovery.

About the Authors

Charlynn Small, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist at the University of Richmond. She received her PhD from Howard University. Dr. Small resides in North Chesterfield, Virginia.

Paula Edwards-Gayfield, LCMHCS, LPC, CEDS-C, is regional assistant vice president and diversity and inclusion cochair for The Renfrew Center, with twenty years of experience treating eating disorders. She resides in Edmond, Oklahoma.