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Popular culture in counseling, psychotherapy, and play-based interventions

With a Foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former Group Editor of Marvel's Spiderman comics line. Popular culture, simply stated, is the language of a people, expressed through everything from its clothing, food choices, and religious practices to its media. The popular and predominant values, interests, and needs of a society find their way into mass consciousness through a variety of venues including literature, cinema, television, video games, sport, and music. Through the inter-related forces of mass production, global marketing and the Internet, the fruits of popular culture penetrate into store
eBook, English, ©2008
Springer, New York, NY, ©2008
1 online resource (xlii, 372 pages) : illustrations
9780826101198, 9781281812865, 9786611812867, 0826101194, 1281812862, 6611812865
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Metaphors, analogies, and myths, oh my! : therapeutic journeys along the yellow brick road / Lisa Saldaña
Harry Potter and the prisoner within : helping children with traumatic loss / William McNulty
Calvin and Hobbes to the rescue! : the therapeutic uses of comic strips and cartoons / Laura Sullivan
The healing power of music / Nancy Davis and Beth Pickard
Using music and a musical chronology as a life review with the aging / Thelma Duffey
Milieu multiplex : using movies in the treatment of adolescents with sexual behavior problems / Karen Robertie [and others]
Little Miss Sunshine and positive psychology as a vehicle for change in adolescent depression / Dora Finamore
Movie metaphors in miniature : children's use of popular hero and shadow figures in sandplay / Linda B. Hunter
Taking the sand tray high tech : using the Sims as a therapeutic tool in the treatment of adolescents / Deidre Skigen
Picking up coins : the use of video games in the treatment of adolescent social problems / George Enfield and Melonie Grosser
Passing go in the game of life : board games in therapeutic play / Harry Livesay
Big heroes on the small screen : Naruto and the struggle within / Lawrence C. Rubin
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia : the use and impact of television themes, characters, and images in psychotherapy / Loretta Gallo-Lopez
The Sopranos and a client's hope for justice / Thelma Duffey and Heather Trepal
Using the popularity of sport culture in psychotherapy / Jan M. Burte
Sports metaphors and stories in counseling with children / David A. Crenshaw and Gregory B. Barker
Using pop culture characters in clinical training and supervision / Alan M. Schwitzer, Kelly E. MacDonald, and Pamela Dickinson
The therapeutic use of popular electronic media with today's teenagers / Scott Riviere
English