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- Title
Fatmisia and Clinical Counseling Decision-Making in Master's-Level Counselor Trainees.
- Authors
Forristal, Kaitlyn M.; Laux, John M.; Clark, Madeline; Reynolds, Jennifer L.; Nelson, Taylor M.
- Abstract
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization have documented an increase in fat people in recent decades, which is being met with a backlash of anti-fat biases, or fatmisia. Fatmisia is prevalent in most aspects of society, especially among fat people who have internalized fatmisia. Utilizing a diagnostic questionnaire in combination with the Fat Phobia Scale-Short Form and the Weight Bias interizalization Scale, this study explored the relationship between client body size, the presence of a maior depressive disorder (MDD) diagnosis, and if applicable, the severity of MDD, symptoms assigned by counselor trainees (N = 113). Results were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance and covariance. This sample (N = 113) significantly differed in diagnoses assigned to obese clients by assigning more severe MDD. Study limitations and implications are discussed.
- Subjects
WORLD Health Organization; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); ONE-way analysis of variance; MENTAL depression; OVERWEIGHT persons; SYMPTOMS; ANALYSIS of covariance
- Publication
Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2021, Vol 43, Issue 4, p336
- ISSN
1040-2861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17744/mehc.43.4.04