Making CBT Pop : Using Movies, Sports, Music, Superheroes and Other Pop Culture to Supercharge Youth Therapy

Revitalize your CBT interventions for children and adolescents with this fun and creative guide. This book incorporates pop cultural references from music, movies, sports, videogames and the superhero genre, to tailor CBT to youths' personal interests and deepen engagement in treatment. It demonstrates how using pop culture references in CBT can: · Enhance rapport established between youth patients and their clinicians · Increase treatment motivation and reduce dropout by adapting interventions to be more developmentally appropriate and individualized · Improve clinician flexibility with implementing manualized protocols · Increase CBT skill acquisition and mastery by utilizing pop cultural references to engage different interests and make learning more fun Practical tools are included, such as clinician-patient scripts, examples, tables linking specific CBT skills to pop cultural references and exercises to broaden your pop culture toolkit which will increase your confidence in intentionally integrating pop culture into your practice.