Celebrandome: Preliminary Study

This intervention is based on existing cognitive dissonance body confidence programs for youth such as Amazing Me, Free Being Me, and Body Project. Consistent with these programs, workshops are entirely experiential getting you to discuss appearance ideals and why they are problematic, pressures they experience to conform to appearance ideals, ways to combat pressures, they compare pictures that are normal versus digitally altered and discuss ways this is problematic, they discuss body talk statements they hear all the time and how this promotes appearance ideals, they practice ways to combat body talk statements. They develop positive affirmation statements. In addition and unique to this curriculum, all activities highlight cultural ideals and how youth can receive different messages related to different appearance ideals and they unique stress and pressures this creates.