The Attitudes of Elementary School Teachers to Eating Disorders Lenka Adámková

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adámková, Lenka, author.

Contributor:

Central and Eastern European Online Library.

Series:

Tělesná výchova a výchova ke zdraví

Tělesná výchova a výchova ke zdraví 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School education.

Educational psychology.

Personality.

Behaviorism.

Health and medicine and law.

Sociology of Education.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (133 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brno [Czech Republic] : Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství 2020

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The publication describes the research on the attitudes of the teachers of health education or an equivalent course in lower secondary schools. In the theoretical part the issue is explained in a broader context. The types of eating disorders and the factors that contribute to the development of these disorders in childhood and adolescence are described. The following section explains the prevention of risk behaviour with a focus on the role of the school and teachers in the primary prevention of eating disorders. The publication describes how teachers can identify eating disorders and suggests their appropriate behaviour towards children with a suspected eating disorder. The book also focuses on the issue of attitudes. The text refers to relevant domestic and international research studies that illustrate the current state of the issue. The theoretical part of the publication defines the research problem, which is to identify the teachers' attitudes to eating disorders. The main research method is the semantic differential applied on a sample of 166 elementary school teachers from various regions of the Czech Republic. The additional method is the semi-structured interview conducted with some teachers from the research sample. The core focus of the publication is the new knowledge concerning the attitudes of elementary school teachers to eating disorders. The results are analysed in terms of the teachers' qualification, gender, age, and length of teaching experience. The final part of the paper summarizes the most important findings and recommendations for the prevention of eating disorders in educational practice. The new findings can also be applied in foreign educational systems.

Contents:

Intro

Content

Introduction

1/ Eating Disorders

1/1 Selected Eating Disorders

1/1/1 Anorexia Nervosa

1/1/2 Bulimia Nervosa

1/1/3 Rare Eating Disorders

1/2 Factors of the Onset of Eating Disorders

1/2/1 Biological Risk Factors

1/2/2 Mental Risk Factors

1/2/3 Social and Cultural Risk Factors

2/ Prevention of Risk Behaviour

2/1 Programmes Aimed at Primary Prevention of Risk Behaviour in CR

2/2 Role of the School in Primary Prevention

2/3 Role of the Teacher in Primary Prevention of Eating Disorders

2/3/1 Recognition of Eating Disorders in Pupils

2/3/2 Teacher's Behaviour Towards a Pupil With Suspected Eating Disorder

3/ Attitudes

3/1 Teachers' Attitudes to Eating Disorders

3/2 Current Research on Teachers' Attitudes to Eating Disorders

4/ Research on Teachers' Attitudes to Eating Disorders

4/1 Research Problem and Objective

4/2 Research Sample

4/3 Research Instrument

4/4 Preparation of the Research and Data Analysis

4/5 Results of the Research

4/5/1 Differences in Teachers' Attitudes by Gender

4/5/2 Differences in Teachers' Attitudes by Teaching Qualification

4/5/3 Differences in Teachers' Attitudes by Gender and Teaching Qualification

4/5/4 Differences in Teachers' Attitudes by Length of Teaching Experience

4/5/5 Differences in Teachers' Attitudes by Their Age

4/5/6 Complementary Analyses

4/5/7 Summary of the Results of the Research

5/ Complementary Research on Teachers' Attitudes to Eating Disorders

5/1 Research Problem and Objective of the Complementary Research

5/2 Methodology of the Complementary Research

5/3 Results of the Complementary Research Study

5/3/1 Summary of the Results of the Complementary Research

6/ Discussion

6/1 Limitations of the Research Study

Conclusion

Resume

References

Subject Index.

Name Index

List of Tables and Graphs.

ISBN:

80-210-9803-1

OCLC:

1305842552

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-9803-2020 DOI