International Journal of School and Cognitive Psychology
Open Access

Abstract

School Counsellors: Promoting Healthy Body Image amongst Adolescents

Allison Paolini

This brief commentary will address the impact that body image has on female students? academic performance and self-worth. Body image dissatisfaction is a pervasive issue amongst teenagers. This commentary will emphasize the need for school counsellors to implement best practices that help to promote resilience and healthy body image amongst students, in order to help them be more academically and personally successful.