Strong Enough by Eating Disorders Families Australia23 Jan 2024

The latest eating disorder research on genetics, social media and perfectionism with Professor Tracey Wade

For more than 30 years Professor Tracey Wade has been at the forefront of eating disorder research, clinical practice and public policy. Currently the Director of the Flinders Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing at Flinders University, Professor Wade has co-written three therapy books, published hundreds of papers and has just been awarded the 2023: Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy - Distinguished Career Award.

In this episode of Strong Enough - the podcast from Eating Disorders Families Australia - we focus on her work on the latest genetic links to eating disorders, delve into her research on the importance of media literacy as a way to combat the menace of social media and find out her insights into the perfectionism trait that can trigger disordered eating in many forms including bulimia, restrictive eating and anorexia nervosa.

If you would like more information about Professor Wade's work here is the link to her paper on the influence of social media on eating disorders and her paper on perfectionism interventions.

Professor Wade also quotes:

the Yerkes-Dodson Law of psychology
her colleague Professor Marika Tiggermann's work on eating disorders and body image
and Viktor E Frankl about finding the space between a stimulus and a response

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