@article{Saraceni_Russell-Mayhew_2008, title={Images and Ideals: Counselling Women and Girls in a "Thin-is-in" Culture}, volume={41}, url={https://cjc-rcc.ucalgary.ca/article/view/58811}, abstractNote={<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">Two well-cited studies (Garner, Garfinkel, Schwartz & Thompson, 1980; Wiseman, Gray, </font></span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular">Mosimann, & Ahrens, 1992) examined the changing body shape of </span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Italic">Playboy </span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular">centrefolds </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">from 1959 to 1988 and noted that their body weights were significantly lower than those of</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">the average female. The current study updates and examines changes in body measurements </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">and weight across four decades using a multivariate one-way Analysis of Variance. Chisquare</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">analysis of the models’ expected weight and actual body mass index (BMI) indicates </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">that the female body weight standard has become increasingly restrictive. Implications for </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">counselling girls and women are discussed within the feminist therapeutic context.</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: AGaramond-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: AGaramondExp-Regular"><font face="Times New Roman">}, number={2}, journal={Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy}, author={Saraceni, Reana and Russell-Mayhew, Shelly}, year={2008}, month={Feb.} }