Recent campaigns have highlighted the huge role the media is playing in impacting children and young people’s body image.
Media Mindful
Media Mindful – Girlguiding in partnership with the University of Strathclyde and Gender Equal Media Scotland. It’s all about supporting girls and young women to challenge how women are represented in the media.
Media Mindful aims to empower and support girls to:
- challenge gender stereotypes and negative portrayals of women and girls in the media
- equip them with the skills to be critical about what they are reading, watching and creating
- take action to ensure the media is more equal and fair
Free Being Me
Free Being Me and Action on Body Confidence programmes boost body confidence and support children and young people to advocate on body confidence issues in their community.
Image Editing Apps and Mental Health
The Mental Health Foundation has worked in partnership with the University of Birmingham and the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Group to create a briefing on reducing the influence of the image-editing apps and mental health.
