CFTD 811 - Pop-Culture and Couple and Family Therapy

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Popular culture is often absorbed without thinking critically about its content or consequences. This is remarkable given the enormous impact it has on our lives, our identities and our consciousness. We often do not stop to think or question the underlying assumptions of popular culture, nor do we think about for what or whom such assumptions or content may support. Questions of power and ideology are deeply interwoven in popular culture despite their seeming absence. Additionally, popular culture has an incredible impact on how we view ourselves as individuals and in relation to others. This course will focus on the reciprocal relationship between being influenced and influencing popular culture and our responsibility as socially just couple and family therapists.