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Dr. Catherine Steiner- Adair is the co-author of:
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(Published by Teachers College Press, 2006, with Lisa Sjostrom)
She was the recipient of generous funding from the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Foundation to research and develop an eating disorders primary prevention program for girls ages 8-13. Emphasizing girls personal power and overall mental and physical wellness, it addresses critical issues of body preoccupation and reduces risk for disordered eating in girls (grades 3-8)This is the first primary prevention program of its kind to show sustained positive changes in girls body image, body satisfaction and body esteem.
She is the Director of Eating Disorders Education and Prevention at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital, and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A founding member of the International Academy of Eating Disorders, Dr. Steiner-Adair lectures internationally on eating disorders. In 2001, Dr. Steiner-Adair was invited to write a new forward to the 20th edition of the Golden Cage, the classic text on eating disorders by Hilde Bruch. She was awarded the Lori Irving Prevention Award by the National Eating Disorders Association in September 2005.
Her current research in eating disorders prevention focuses more specifically on ethnicity and cultural sensitivity. With funding from the Hadassah Foundation, she is the co-author of "Bishvili, For Me: a Jewish Guide to Full of Ourselves, for Jewish day schools and camps, (expected to be available in Spring 2007).
Dr. Steiner- Adair consults widely in the American Jewish community with Rabbis, day school and youth educators, health practitioners, parents, camps and non-profit organizations. She has spoken at events for several Jewish Women’s Fund chapters (Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston, Palm Beach) and Jewish non-profit organizations (The Hadassah Foundation, Jewish Camping Foundation, The Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, Facing History and Ourselves). Catherine has worked extensively in Israel, speaking publicly and providing professional development at leading hospitals, academic institutions, and the Knesset. In 2006 she was recognized as one of Jewish Women International’s "10 Woman to Watch" for the depth of her work on raising healthy confident girls and preventing eating disorders.
Catherine’s passion for helping adults raise strong, savvy and resilient children extends to boys and girls from preschool through college. A highly sought after speaker, her warmth, humor and compassionate understanding of children and the adults who care about them is extremely compelling. Her ability to weave research and real life stories leaves everyone in the audience feeling intellectually and emotionally smarter and equipped with new strategies. She is equally comfortable presenting to health professionals at conferences, to parents and educators of children ages 3-21, synagogues and clergy groups, non profit organizations, corporate retreats and fund raising events.
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As a resource to the media, Dr. Steiner-Adair has frequently appeared on television (the Today Show, Good Morning America, the Discovery Channel, PBS, NECN), and in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Jerusalem Post, Vogue, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping, Parenting, Glamour, Self, and Mademoiselle. She is a featured expert in the PBS documentary "Inside Hunger", the documentary film "The Famine Within", the ABC Dateline special "Fat," the Discovery Channel series "The National Body Challenge," and the documentary film "Beyond Killing Us Softly".
A graduate of Bowdoin College, Catherine did her doctoral work at Harvard University with Carol Gilligan at the Harvard Project on the Psychology of Women and Girls Development. Her award-winning dissertation research, "The Body Politic: Normal Female Adolescent Development and the development of Eating Disorders was a pioneering study of the connections between healthy girls development, socio-cultural values, gender politics and the new epidemic of eating disorders.
She did her clinical training at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. She was on the teaching faculty of The Family Institute of Cambridge for 10 years, and previously was a school psychologist and teacher at Phillips Academy Andover and The Dana Hall School.
Dr. Steiner-Adair has a private psychotherapy practice in Chestnut Hill, MA where she works with adolescents, men and women of all ages, couples and families.
Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair can be reached at csadair@comcast.net or 617 332 2001. She lives in Chestnut Hill, MA with her husband, and their son and daughter. |
