Familial approach to the treatment of childhood obesity: conceptual mode.
This model for the management of childhood obesity uses a family-based approach. Change is delivered through the parents (instead of the obese child) emphasizing a healthy lifestyle and not weight reduction as in previously published, family-based management of childhood obesity. This intervention integrates behavioral, social learning, and family system approaches. The proposed approach includes changes in parental cognition, emphasizing "parenthood presence"; parents serve both as a source of authority and a role model for the obese child, providing a family environment that fosters healthy practices related to weight control issues and de-emphasizing personal responsibility for control of health behavior.
Golan
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School of Nutritional Sciences, Rehovot, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 76100, Israel. moriag@netvision.net.il
Weizman
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D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D005190:Family; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations