Event

The Department of Behavioral Sciences will host a research presentation on “Eating Disorders in the Caribbean” on Friday 13^th March, 2009. It will be held in the Faculty of Social Sciences Lounge from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Professor Scott W. Minor, will be the feature speaker at this event.

Scott W. Minor is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Western Carolina University and former Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, who has practiced in North Carolina and Jamaica for over 25 years. Professor Minor has published over 50 professional papers, focusing on child and adolescent psychopathology. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Southeastern Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology.  

Findings:

Eating Disorders have been conceptualized and researched in a way that focuses on young Caucasian women from North American.  

The Eating Disorders research has been biased against minority women and women from divergent populations.  

Eating Disorders occurs much more frequently in males than has been previously thought.  

The high risk factors associated with Eating Disorders may be different for Caribbean women than for women from North America and Europe.