Part 1- Introduction and Overview
1. Overview of the Book
2. Popular Culture as a Learning Tool in Counseling and
Psychotherapy
Part 2- Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment
Planning
3. Clinical Thinking Skills
4. Diagnosis
5. Case Conceptualization
6. Treatment Planning
Part 3- Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment Planning:
30 Case Illustrations
7. Child and Video Game Characters
8. Troubled Youth in Film and on Stage
9. Animated Characters
10. Adults in Television Sitcoms and Drama
11. Characters in Music, Musicals, and Advertising
12. Characters in Literature and Comics
Part 4- Epilogue and Media Resources
13. Epilogue
14. Getting to Know the Clients Through Internet Sources, Published
Literature, and Film
References
Alan M. Schwitzer, PhD, is a Licensed Psychologist and Professor of
Counseling at Old
Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Schwitzer
completed his graduate
degrees in Counseling Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth
University and interned at
the University of Texas at Austin Counseling and Mental Health
Center. Prior to full-time
faculty work, he was the Clinical Director of the Tulane University
Counseling and Testing
Center and then Assistant Professor and Training Director of the
James Madison University
Counseling and Student Development Center. Dr. Schwitzer is past
editor of the Journal
of College Counseling and has chaired the Council of Journal of
Editors of the American
Counseling Association (ACA). Currently he is a Consulting Editor
of the Journal of American
College Health and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of College
Student Development, and
he is on the Board of Contributors of About Campus Magazine,
publications of the American
College Health Association and American College Personnel
Association. Dr. Schwitzer has
published over seventy journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
primarily examining college
and university student adjustment, development, learning, and
counseling. He also specializes
in teaching diagnosis, case conceptualization, and treatment
planning. His previous books
include Skills and Tools for Today’s Counselors and
Psychotherapists: From Natural Helping to
Professional Counseling and Promoting Student Learning and Student
Development at a Distance.
Among Dr. Schwitzer’s recent awards are the Ralph M. Berdie
Memorial Award for Research
and Scholarship in the Field of College Student Affairs; the
American College Counseling
Association’s Meritorious Service Award, and Outstanding
Contribution to Professional
Knowledge Award; and the American College Personnel Association’s
Lifetime Achievement
Award in College Counseling & Psychological Services, and
Commission Research Award.
Woody serves on the Virginia psychologists’ state legislative
committee and maintains a private
practice focusing on consultation, training, and continuing
education. He lives on the Lafayette
River with his wife, dog, and cat.
Lawrence C. Rubin, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S has been, throughout his
career, a licensed mental
health counselor and registered play therapist and a Professor of
Counselor Education at
St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida, where he directed the
Mental Health Counseling
Program and was a private practice psychologist, professional
counselor, and play therapist.
Dr. Rubin is past president of the Florida Association for Play
Therapy and chaired the Board
of Directors of the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Rubin’s
research interests and publications
lie at the intersection of psychology and popular culture. He has
been a prolific writer
and editor. His book, Psychotropic Drugs and Popular Culture:
Medicine, Mental Health and the
Media, won the 2006 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Anthology.
His other books include
Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture, Popular Culture in
Counseling, Psychotherapy and
Play-Based Intervention, Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play
Therapy, Messages: Self-
Help through Popular Culture, Mental Illness and Popular Media:
Essays on the Representation
of Psychiatric Disorders, and Play-Based Interventions for Children
and Adolescents with Autism
Spectrum Disorders. Dr. Rubin has blogged about popular culture and
psychology for Psychology
Today magazine and was the Area Chair of the Division of Mental
Health, Mental Illness and
Popular Culture for the Popular Culture Association.
Today, Larry is a retired Professor of Counselor Education from St.
Thomas University, a
licensed psychologist, and an adjunct professor at his alma mater,
Nova Southeastern University.
He remains a clinician, educator, and author at the intersection of
psychology and popular
culture—and is the Editor for Psychotherapy.net. Larry recently
relocated to North Carolina.
Refusing to go quietly into the night, he wanders the hills and
woods of the North Carolina
mountains and plays golf … or at least he plays at it!
The authors would be glad to hear from you! They can be reached at
aschwitz@odu.edu,
alpope@wm.edu, and lrubin@stu.edu, respectively.
“A true strength of this book is that the authors are able to
describe complex, abstract concepts in a practical, straightforward
manner that is highly accessible for students from a variety of
mental health professions. The authors should be commended for
integrating detailed models for developing diagnostic, case
conceptualization, and treatment planning skills into one text.
Students often learn these types of clinical thinking skills in
separate courses and then experience difficulty in weaving this
information together to inform their work with actual clients. The
authors of this book succeed in bridging this gap for students.
With the use of thirty fascinating case studies drawn from popular
culture and from across the spectrum of mental health concerns,
students are able to see in vivid detail how diagnosis, case
conceptualization, and treatment planning skills may be applied in
clinical practice. The rich case descriptions help make the
material come alive for the reader so that he or she remains
actively involved in the learning process. I recommend this
extremely practical and engaging tool for all beginning clinicians
as a foundation for developing strong clinical thinking
skills.”
*Laura Choate, Ed.D., LPC, NCC*
"Diagnosis And Treatment Planning Skills For Mental Health
Professionals: A Popular Culture Casebook Approach is a hit. We all
think about popular culture figures and wonder what they’d be like
if they were real. Schwitzer and Rubin carry this concept steps
further by imagining 30 pop culture figures as clinical cases, and
approaches them as mental health professionals. Using the Inverted
Pyramid Method as an organizing structure, the authors walk
students through the process of diagnosing clients, conceptualizing
cases, and planning treatment. They illustrate this method and the
theories and research underpinning it through the cases derived
from popular culture figures and in doing so make the material
engaging, compelling, and memorable."
*Robin S. Rosenberg, Ph.D.*
“If you are interested in finding a text that creatively describes
common clinical issues, this is your book! Distinguished
pop-culture-in-counseling authors and educators, Schwitzer and
Rubin, collaborate on this vast compilation of material to present
step by step directions using often poignant vignettes within a DSM
counseling paradigm. A must- read for all counselors,
psychotherapists and popular culture enthusiasts!” - Thelma Duffey,
Editor, The Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, University of
Texas at San Antonio
*Thelma Duffy*
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