Empowering Children and Teens: Body Image and Self-Esteem Workshop
Explore the challenges and factors impacting self-esteem and body image in children and teenagers with T1D. Engage in activities to boost confidence, promote positive self-perception, and encourage resilience. Gain insights on addressing body dissatisfaction and fostering a healthy self-image.
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Introductions Name and representative object Age of child/teenager with T1D Aims of workshop Confidentiality What do you hope to get from the workshop today?
Self esteem Self-Esteem is the way we think and feel about ourselves and affects every aspect of life- school work, friendships, Diabetes care, confidence and body image. A person with strong sense of self-esteem is more likely to develop coping skills, be motivated, make positive adjustments to change and succeed in their goals WORTHINESS OF LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE MORAL WORTH questioning whether we are worthy of love and acceptance from family, friends and peers. how closely our behaviors meet our moral standards SENSE OF CONTROL COMPETENCE whether we feel able to complete tasks with our desired outcomes and whether we can accept responsibility for success or failure. how adequate we feel with about or cognitive, physical and social skills. Often this has a self-comparison with others
Body Image Body image encompasses the way we view our body, including our thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviours associated with this. Often children and young people with low self-esteem, have negative self-evaluations and are dissatisfied with their body image. There are many factors that are associated with body dissatisfaction: Biological Psychological Culture Parents Social/cultural environment Peers Media Puberty Sexual orientation Gender
ACTIVITY 1 Factors associated with body dissatisfaction
ACTIVITY 2 Celebrities
ACTIVITY 3- Talking about our body Aims: to identify body image distortions (perfect body image) expressing and exploring feelings related to the body.
Take home message.. we all have aspects of feeling dissatisfied with certain parts of our body BUT what makes us UniquelyBeautiful is our personality and values
Building self esteem and resilience Give choices Age appropriate independence and chores Teach problem solving skills Offer sincere praise Appreciate individuality Encourage friendships and interests Acknowledge, respond to, and contain feelings encourage talking Spend one-on-one time - connect Play it s good for adults too Model positive self esteem, confidence and resilience
You cant possibly be hungry. You ve just eaten That s great! You will enjoy your snack in a bit! Lets set a family rule around enjoying biscuits in a sensible way? You should cut down on biscuits. I love my body and want to fill it with nourishing foods I NEED to lose weight and stop eating junk
ACTIVITY 4 Mindfulness
Review Aims and Requests Questions? Reflections
ACTIVITY 5 Compassion Aim: this exercise on compassion, recognises inner beauty of group members
