Engaging stakeholder communities as body image intervention partners: The Body Project as a case example

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd Despite recent advances in developing evidence-based psychological interventions, substantial changes are needed in the current system of intervention delivery to impact mental health on a global scale (Kazdin & Blase, 2011). Prevention offers one avenue for reaching large populations because prevention interventions often are amenable to scaling-up strategies, such as task-shifting to lay providers, which further facilitate community stakeholder partnerships. This paper discusses the dissemination and implementation of the Body Project, an evidence-based body image prevention program, across 6 diverse stakeholder partnerships that span academic, non-profit and business sectors at national and international levels. The paper details key elements of the Body Project that facilitated partnership development, dissemination and implementation, including use of community-based participatory research methods and a blended train-the-trainer and task-shifting approach. We observed consistent themes across partnerships, including: sharing decision making with community partners, engaging of community leaders as gatekeepers, emphasizing strengths of community partners, working within the community's structure, optimizing non-traditional and/or private financial resources, placing value on cost-effectiveness and sustainability, marketing the program, and supporting flexibility and creativity in developing strategies for evolution within the community and in research. Ideally, lessons learned with the Body Project can be generalized to implementation of other body image and eating disorder prevention programs

Ionization energies of hypervalent Li2F, Li2Cl and Na2Cl molecules obtained by surface ionization electron impact neutralization mass spectrometry

Ionization energies of hypervalent Li2F, Li2Cl and Na2Cl molecules detected by surface ionization electron impact neutralization mass spectrometry are reported. The ionization energies were 3.78 +/- 0.2 eV for Li2F, 4.93 +/- 0.2 eV for Li2Cl, and 4.21 +/- 0.2 eV for Na2Cl. The ionization energies (IE) agree with theoretical ionization energies calculated by ab initio methods,(1) supporting the theoretical prediction that Li2F has a hyperlithiated configuration in which the odd electron delocalizes over the two lithiums and with photoionization measurement.(2) The first ionization energy of Na2Cl was experimentally confirmed earlier(3-7) and for Li2Cl as well.(8) We have developed and used this new approach for the problem-in the present work ions were first formed by surface ionization, followed by electron attachment (neutralization)