Types and Nature of Parental Support for Overweight Students to Cope With Weight‐Related Teasing

BACKGROUND Parental support can protect adolescents from various forms of bullying. There is a lack of in‐depth information about what social support parents provide to overweight adolescents when they are teased at school. In this study, we took an initial step to address this gap in the literature by describing the types and nature of support that parents provided to their overweight child when they were teased. METHODS A conversational style...