Graduate Research Assistant University of Connecticut School of Social Work, United States
This presentation focuses on disentangling aspects of a Christian ideology from the socially and medically constructed “obesity epidemic” within America, in addition to how social workers have remained complicit. Implications for research, education, and social action for addressing anti-fat attitudes and sizeism will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, the participant will be able to identify the traditional framing of the “obesity epidemic” and understand how social workers have perpetuated harmful narratives regarding weight.
Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand how a Christian ideology has contributed to the moralization of fatness and the “obesity epidemic”.
Upon completion, the participant will be able to identify ways that social workers can intervene and interrupt harmful discourse rooted in fat phobia, the “obesity epidemic” and sizeism within social work education, clinical practice and through social action.
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