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Sophia Ansari – Superheroes and Pop Culture in Therapy for Children and Adolescents

Faculty:: Sophia Ansari
Duration:: 6 Hours 24 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Copyright:: Jun 07, 2018

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Imagine if kids and adolescents had superpowers to help them overcome their mental health issues. What would their superpowers be? How would you help them use these powers?

Perhaps the notion isn’t as unbelievable as it seems. Like many children, our best-known superheroes are often impacted by abuse, divorce, loss, isolation, anger and their accompanying mental health challenges. And like many superheroes, kids who struggle with psychological issues can often harness incredible inner strength. Your clients’ “powers” may already lay inside of them waiting to be discovered.

This recording will teach you to find your clients strengths, cultivate and enhance their inner resources, build on their best qualities, improve their resiliency, and help them change their worldview with a fun and engaging therapeutic approach centered around superhero mythology and popular culture!

Learn specific strategies to incorporate the superhero metaphor and the power of story-telling into evidence-based modalities of treatment including: play therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Bibliotherapy. Hands on guidance will give you the tools you need to bring about self-awareness and change with kids facing trauma, anxiety, depression and disruptive behavior problems.

Benefits of Watching:

Build trust, security, and emotional vocabulary through the language of superheroes
Techniques to promote engagement in the therapeutic process
Assessment strategies that help kids identify their strengths and recognize the advocates in their lives
Interventions that offer clients a safe psychological distance from traumatic events
A framework that encourages young people to open-up about their problems
Creative tools for direct and indirect teaching

Handouts

Seminar Manual (19.81 MB)	175 Pages	Available after Purchase
Instructions for ASHA Credit – SELF STUDY ONLY – 06/07/18 (0.03 MB)	Available after Purchase

Outline

Why Superheroes? Clinically Relevant Themes in Comic books, Movies and TV Shows

The rise of superheroes in therapy
”Geek Therapy” and geek culture
The latest research on geek therapy in mental health
Therapeutic alliance: Build trust, security, and vocabulary through their interests

Assessment Tools: Harnessing the “Superpowers” of Passion, Purpose and Playfulness

Exploratory questions
Strengths-spotting survey and activities
Promote engagement with “Fantasy” exercises
Draw a superhero to assess coping strategies
Identify resources and obstacles with superhero gadget interventions
The sidekick intervention – identify advocates in kid’s lives

Treat Trauma through the Filter of Comic Books

Modalities – CBT, Bibliotherapy, Play Therapy, ACT and more
Comic books and trauma narratives – help clients share trauma
- Choosing the appropriate story for the situation
- Talking about trauma through the filter of comics
Trigger identification and coping skills exercises
- The Bat Signal/Utility Belt exercise
- Moving stories technique – Sandtray play

Help Kids and Adolescents Face Anxiety Like a Superhero

Modalities – CBT, ACT, Exposure Therapy and Behavior Therapy
Labeling our villains – help kids understand how anxiety is affecting their lives
Build your clients readiness to face their worries and fears
- Create a safe distance from fears
- Heroes have dysfunctional behavior and cognitive distortions too
Relating anxiety reduction techniques to superheroes
- Improve self-esteem and decrease anxiety with Spiderman
- Guided imagery with the Batmobile

Depression: Manage Change, Conflict and Grief After Loss

Modalities – Interpersonal Psychotherapy, CBT, ACT, Bibliotherapy
How relatable characters and situations from fantasy can be incorporated into therapy for clients facing:
- Social isolation
- Conflicts in relationships
- Change/relocation
- Grief after loss
Superhero mindfulness techniques for self-compassion
Harry Potter in the treatment of grieving children and adolescents

Disruptive Behavior Problems: Strategies to Reduce Disruptive Behavior Using Action Figures, TV Shows and More

Modalities – Behavior Therapy, Play Therapy
Facilitate self-awareness through “personal archetypes”
Goal setting with the “superhero journey” metaphor
Use the Hulk in play therapy to teach behavior management skills
Level Up – how to use gaming metaphors in goal evaluation
Directive and non-directive play strategies to promote positive behavioral change

Faculty

Sophia Ansari, LPCC, RPT Related seminars and products: 5

Sophia Ansari, LPCC, RPT, is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Registered Play Therapist, author, educator, and co-founder of the Let’s Play Therapy Institute. She has worked with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. She provides workshops on play therapy to mental health professionals and educates parents and teachers on the importance of play as it relates to development and learning in the school setting.

She is a passionate research trainer who has bridged her knowledge of neuroscience and creative therapies to provide in-depth and highly experiential trainings.

Sophia co-hosts Hero Nation, a podcast on the Geek Therapy Network, which celebrates diversity in the media and explores how to use geek culture in therapy.

Sophia earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Wright State University and her Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Cincinnati.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sophia Ansari has an employment relationship with the Let’s Play Therapy Institute. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Sophia Ansari is a member of the Association for Play Therapy.

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