Reflections has a proven track record – not only on improving body image issues, but on encouraging healthy confrontation and communication skills as well. Since the program’s inception, Dr. Becker and her peers have continued to collect and analyze data to ensure the integrity of the research. As a result of the data collected, we know that Reflections works:

• 8 months after the program, 53% of women who have participated at one school no longer felt strongly that their weight influenced how they felt about themselves as a person.
• 48% of women at one college who said they “felt fat almost every day” before the program felt that way never or less than half the time up to 8 months after the program.
• Over half of participants who felt their shape often interfered with their ability to concentrate before the program experienced a dramatic decrease well after the program.
• No other eating disorders prevention program has undergone such rigorous testing by independent scientists as Reflections.

Results from this ongoing research agenda have been published in the most prestigious, peer-reviewed, scientific journals, including Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Counseling Psychology, Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Practice, and Eating Disorders: Journal of Treatment and Prevention (in press). In the end, the conclusion has remained the same: Reflections is the first peer-led eating disorders prevention program repeatedly proven to work.