I’m a Child Anorexic

Synopsis: This BBC education film is about a North London clininc where around thirty severely underweight children are undergoing treatment for anorexia. Made using the children’s own video diaries and conversations with each other, the programme documents the highs and lows of the twelve-week programme, as the girls make progress and go from the dangerously emaciated and malnourished states they arrive in to a healthy weight and their departure. The programme provides an insight into children’s beliefs about food, dieting and fat; and shows the terrifying power of TV, magazines, celebrities, parents and peers in influencing and distorting their perceptions.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2007
Subjects: Social Studies; Psychology; Mental Health and Counselling
Keywords: advertising; anorexia nervosa; body image; children; dieting; food; media representation; mental health

Name: BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
Contact: Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
Email: BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
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Phone: +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
Address: BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK
Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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