Virginia Ramseyer Winter – författare

As body image research continues to expand, it can be difficult for clinicians and researchers to know how to choose the most appropriate measures to assess and treat patients. This handbook provides a comprehensive and well-organized catalogue of existing body image and related measures, detailing their descriptions, psychometric properties, and recommended applications, enabling readers to easily identify the most suitable tools for their studies or clinical work. It also offers guidance on adapting these measures for diverse cultural contexts, ensuring assessments are culturally relevant and sensitive. The book features step-by-step instructions on how to administer, score, and interpret each measure, with real-world examples that make it highly practical and accessible. With its focus on accuracy, cultural sensitivity, and ease of application, this handbook is invaluable for researchers, counselors, educators, and health professionals focused on body image.

This book offers an introduction to critical and anti-oppressive quantitative research. Quantitative scholarship has often fallen short of the liberatory values of social work, education, public health, and related disciplines, reinforcing majority interests rather than challenging oppression. This book reimagines quantitative research practice and frameworks though the lens of critical and anti-oppressive theory. It provides practical coverage of the research lifecycle from formulating a research topic, to participant recruitment and voice, measurement, data analysis, and dissemination. It also tackles important questions related to the definition of and inclusion of specific and intersecting identities including gender and sexuality, race, disability, social class, and age. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate quantitative research methods courses, this book equips students with the practical and theoretical tools to pursue anti-oppressive research in social work and beyond.