Biography of Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed.D.
Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair is a Clinical Psychologist, school consultant, author, and public speaker. She serves as Director of Eating Disorders Education and Prevention at The Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital, and a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She received the National Eating Disorders Association Prevention Award in 2005.
Dr. Steiner-Adair is the co-author of Full of Ourselves: A Wellness Program Advancing Girl Power Health and Leadership, an eating disorders primary prevention program for girls ages 8-13. The "Full of Ourselves" prevention program has been proven to help girls improve body image, body satisfaction, and self-esteem.
As a resource to the media, Dr. Steiner-Adair has appeared on television (Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Discovery Channel, PBS) and in numerous national magazines, (The NY Sunday Times, Vogue, Parenting, Glamour, Self, and Mademoiselle). She was featured in the PBS Documentary "Inside Hunger", the film "The Famine Within", the DateLine special "Fat" and the documentary, "Beyond Killing Us Softly."
Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair has worked in the fields of education and psychology for more than twenty-five years. She has consulted to over 350 Independent and public schools, working with Directors, faculty, parents and students on a wide range of educational and psychological topics.
