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Table 1 Overview of the GoodForm Program

From: Study protocol for Goodform - a classroom-based intervention to enhance body image and prevent doping and supplement use in adolescent boys

Session

Activities

Adapted from:

Session 1:

Cultural Ideals

1) Introduction

2) Video: Pressure to conform to the cultural ideal

3) Digital Tool and worksheet: Define and critique the cultural ideal for men

4) Worksheet: How do we challenge this ideal?

Homework: Write your advice to a younger boy

Drawn from The Body Project: More than Muscles

Session 2: Supplements and Steroids

1) Discussion: Read through Homework Task

2) Demonstration: Balloons and steroids

3) Jigsaw Inquiry: What are the side effects of supplement use?

4) Jigsaw Activity: Critique Supplement Ads

5) Video: What will people think?

Drawn from the ATLAS program and extended to include other muscle building supplements.

Session 3: Critiquing Supplement use

1) Quiz: Recap previous content

2) Jigsaw Activity: Role Plays to counter the use of supplements and steroids

3) Jigsaw Assignment: Develop a media campaign against steroid use

Drawn from the ATLAS program and extended to include other muscle building supplements.

Session 4: Advocacy and Activism

1) Presentation of media campaigns

2) Advocacy and Activism: Top 10 Worksheet

3) What next? Challenge Yourself

Drawn from the ATLAS program and combined with the concept of advocacy from The Yager Body Project.