The 2024 ANZAED Conference highlighted the need for culturally responsive approaches in treating eating disorders. The article mentions the the launch of Ngā Māuiui Kai: A te reo Māori glossary for eating disorders that you can find on our website: https://lnkd.in/gpgxkyit
This papakupu (glossary) builds on Te Reo Hāpai, presenting kupu Māori for use by people with eating difficulties and disorders, their whānau, as well as eating disorder researchers, policymakers, and the wellbeing workforce.
These kupu were developed through wānanga with members of Te Tira Wānanga Māuiui Kai (the Māori Eating Disorders / Eating Issues Network; a rōpū of researchers, clinicians, and experts-by-experience), in collaboration with Keri Opai (linguist, educator, and licensed te reo Māori translator).
We use these kupu within our rōpū, and offer them for use by anyone looking for language that comes from a mana–enhancing Māori worldview.
We hope these kupu will help to challenge the stigma and pathologisation that can come with the language of ‘disorder’. We also share these kupu for te reo Māori reclamation. Kia kaha te reo Māori!