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If kids and adolescents had powers, they would be able to overcome their mental health issues. What would their powers be? How would you help them use their powers?

Maybe the idea isn’t as crazy as it seems. Abuse, divorce, loss, isolation, anger, and their accompanying mental health challenges are just some of the issues our best-known superheroes are impacted by. Kids who struggle with psychological issues can often harness their inner strength. Your clients may already have power inside of them.

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

There are specific strategies to incorporate the superhero metaphor and the power of story-telling into evidence-based therapies. With kids facing trauma, anxiety, depression and disruptive behavior problems, hands on guidance will give you the tools you need to bring about self-awareness and change.

There are benefits to 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

1. Analyze the latest research on the use of the superhero metaphor in mental health treatment and communicate the impact of these findings on clinical practice.
2. Develop a framework for incorporating comic books, tv shows, movies and other popular mediums with evidence-based therapies including CBT, Behavioral Therapy, and Play Therapy.
3. Establish how a client’s passion for certain fictional characters can be used in clinical assessment to identify strengths and promote engagement in the therapeutic process.
4. Communicate how narratives from comic books can be introduced by the therapist to create a safe psychological distance from trauma and help kids share their own traumatic experiences.
5. Articulate how to build self-regulation skills in young clients with anxiety using an emotional labeling exercise constructed around the concept of a villain.
6. Elucidate how relatable situations from fantasy can be used in the treatment of depression to teach children and adolescents skills for adapting to change and managing grief following loss.

Why are superheros? Comic books, movies and TV shows have themes that are clinically relevant.

• 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 can be used to harness the power of passion, purpose and play.

• 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

Comic books can be used to treat trauma.

• 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

Kids and adolescents face anxiety.

• 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 can affect change, conflict and grief.

• 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

TV shows and action figures can be used to reduce disruptive behavior.

• 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

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