Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Prevention of eating disorders

For this symposium it is a pleasure to count on among the participants, the following renowned doctors, J. I. Baile, A. R. Durán, C. del Río and M. L. González. The first two speakers present an interesting and current point of view on coordinated prevention in Eating Disorders and Obesity (“Characteristics of prevention programmes in child obesity. Review” and “Controlled pilot study on child obesity in Primary Care aimed at affect regulation and problem solving: Programme RENOBA-in action”). Dr. C. del Río analyses a preventive intervention in high risk eating disorder groups such as dancers (“Prevention of eating disorders in dance: Programme IPASDA”). Finally, Dr. M. L. González presents us with a comparison between two preventive interventions carried out at school (“Media literacy and theatre: Two effective prevention strategies for problems related to weight in young people at school”).

Rosa María Raich Escursell is a Senior Lecturer of Psychological Interventions in the Psychology Faculty at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and director of the Consolidated Research Team (2009 SGR 1450: Behaviors, life styles and health in women CEVSD) and is a main researcher in various research projects on the prevention of eating disorders in adolescents. She has dedicated more than 20 years to the study of these disorders as well as that of the devolopment of eating behavior from normative to pathological. Furthermore, she is author of 9 books, among them, Body image and self esteem, and of more than 140 scientific publications, the majority of these related to eating disorders. She has also complemented her work at the university with the implementation of a preventive treatment and its further study in university students and children at school.