Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play TherapyHarness the Therapeutic Power of the Superhero!
With an incisive historical foreword by John Shelton Lawrence and insight from contributors such as Michael Brody, Patty Scanlon, and Roger Kaufman, Lawrence Rubin takes us on a dynamic tour of the benefits of using these icons of popular culture and fantasy in counseling and play therapy. Not only can superheroes assist in clinical work with children, but Rubin demonstrates how they can facilitate growth and change with teen and adults. Early childhood memories of how we felt pretending to have the power to save the world or our families in the face of impending danger still resonate in our adult lives, making the use of superheroes attractive as well, to the creative counselor. In presenting case studies and wisdom gleaned from practicing therapists' experience, Lawrence Rubin shows how it is possible to uncover children's secret identities, assist treatment of adolescents with sexual behavior problems, and inspire the journey of individuation for gay and lesbian clients, all by paying attention to our intrinsic social need for superhero fantasy and play. |
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Aware that his deviation from the scientific style of attribution would be puzzling, Wertham created an elaborate explanation in his Seduction of the Innocent, a book published without source listings or footnotes.
And speaking to the fascist themes in the superheroes, how could Wertham, a Jew, have failed to consider that comic artists such as Jacob Kurtzburg (aka Jack Kirby) had created a Captain America who presciently slugged Hitler's chin on ...
It is the place in which children and adults escape from but also make sense of their worlds by creating and then living their stories—their own personal mythologies. As is often the case with the world around them, this inner place is ...
... experience, and the immediate perceptual field, they also create a “zone of proximal development” in which a “child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior... as though he were a head taller than himself” (p.
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SECTION II Superheroes and Unique Clinical Applications | 103 |
SECTION III Nontraditional Therapeutic Applications of Superheroes | 225 |
Afterword | 319 |
Appendix | 321 |
Index | 327 |
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| Titre | Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play Therapy |
| Rédacteur | Lawrence C. Rubin, PhD, LMHC, RPT-S |
| Éditeur | Springer Publishing Company, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0826101321, 9780826101327 |
| Longueur | 368 pages |
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