{"id":2104,"date":"2020-11-20T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T09:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/?page_id=2104"},"modified":"2024-08-06T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T12:52:40","slug":"body-image","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/healthier-minds-online\/body-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Health Foundation has highlighted how important having a good body image is for children and young people&#8217;s mental health.\u00a0 With this in mind, resources have been created to help children and young people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognise what body image is, and what can influence this (positively or negatively)<\/li>\n<li>Understand the affect of media on body image<\/li>\n<li>Develop resilience and strategies to develop a good body image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Advisory Group on Good Body Image<\/strong> was established in August 2019 by request of the Scottish Government.\u00a0 The document&#8217;s aim is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify a definition of what \u2018healthy body image\u2019 means that is relevant to every Scottish child and young person\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2107\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-06\/MHF-Scotland-Body-image-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2107\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/healthierminds\/uploads\/sites\/18270\/2020\/11\/20095939\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-20-at-09.58.52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on picture to access document.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Develop options for how children and young people, relevant professionals and wider support networks can support healthy body image for children and young people<\/li>\n<li>Provide the Scottish Government with specific recommendations and advice for next steps and consider the need for wider public consultation on where action should be taken<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mental Health Foundation has highlighted how important having a good body image is for children and young people&#8217;s mental health.\u00a0 With this in mind, resources have been created to help children and young people: Recognise what body image is, and what can influence this (positively or negatively) Understand the affect of media on body &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/healthier-minds-online\/body-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Body Image<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35971,"featured_media":0,"parent":110,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2104\/revisions\/3641"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/healthierminds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}