Gail McVey
University of Toronto
46 Papers
158 Citations
Gail McVey is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Eating disorders & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 35 publications. Previous affiliations of Gail McVey include Hospital for Sick Children & University Health Network.
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Papers
Evaluation of a school-based program designed to improve body image satisfaction, global self-esteem, and eating attitudes and behaviors: A replication study
TL;DR: The intervention was successful in improving body image satisfaction and global self-esteem and in reducing dieting attitude scores at post intervention only, but the gains were not maintained at the 12-month follow-up.
Canadian practice guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders
Jennifer Couturier,Leanna Isserlin,Mark L. Norris,Wendy Spettigue,Melissa C. Brouwers,Melissa Kimber,Gail McVey,Cheryl Webb,Sheri Findlay,Neera Bhatnagar,Natasha Snelgrove,Amanda Ritsma,Wendy Preskow,Catherine Miller,Jennifer S. Coelho,Ahmed Boachie,Cathleen Steinegger,Rachel Loewen,Techiya Loewen,Elizabeth Waite,Catherine Ford,Kerry Bourret,Joanne Gusella,Josie Geller,Adele Lafrance,Anick Leclerc,Jennifer Scarborough,Seena Grewal,Monique Jericho,Gina Dimitropoulos,David Pilon +30 more
TL;DR: High quality treatment guidelines that are focused on interventions for children and adolescents with eating disorders are developed that are supported specifically in favour of Family-Based Treatment and more generally in terms of least intensive treatment environment.
Healthy Schools-Healthy Kids: A controlled evaluation of a comprehensive universal eating disorder prevention program
TL;DR: Repeated measures ANCOVAs revealed that participation in the Healthy Schools-Healthy Kids (HS-HK) program had a positive influence by reducing the internalization of media ideals among male and female students and by reducing disordered eating among female students.
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Understanding the uptake of family‐based treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: Therapist perspectives
Jennifer Couturier,Melissa Kimber,Susan M. Jack,Alison Niccols,Sherry Van Blyderveen,Gail McVey +5 more
TL;DR: Therapists face several barriers to the implementation of FBT, divided broadly into interventional, organizational, interpersonal, patient/family, systemic, and illness factors, and fidelity to this model is not practiced.
A Controlled Evaluation of Web-Based Training for Teachers and Public Health Practitioners on the Prevention of Eating Disorders
TL;DR: The Student Body program was found to be successful in improving knowledge concerning facts about dieting among the teacher participants, and in increasing efficacy to fight weight bias among the public health participants.