GFT: Geek Family Therapy

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AHHHHH Robots!!!!!

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#16: Robots are being introduced into mainstream more often.  We have Alexa, and google home, not to mention Siri on iPhones.  Now there is the introduction to Jibo for the home that can display emotions and learns what different users in the home will like and responds accordingly.

Does this influence the way family members will interact with one another?  Lea discusses her fear of the AI taking over the world and killing mankind and discusses a conspiracy theory that the humans would die with the introduction to new robots thanks to Pixar. You can see the video here

If you would like to read the article that Lea and Kat  discuss you can check it out Monitor – January 2018

And of course PsychTech podcast discussed PARO in their episode Avatar Therapy

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Holidays, movies, and possibly current events

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#15: Hey we got a new logo!!!!

Quick apology to begin with there might be some banging in the background, we did get rid of most of it but there is still some, I hope you can bear with us, during the episode.

So we had a lot of plans that fell through.  But we did get to see some movies, of course we both saw Thor: Ragnarok, but Kat did not see Justice League, and Lea refuses to see The Last Jedi.  She refuses to see any Star Wars movies.

There has been a lot of high power people who have been in the news lately due to sexual abuse allegations; one of them being a singer Melanie Martinez who was accused of raping her friend.  We begin discussing the impact it has had on fans, as well as the importance of talking to younger fans about this before they read it on facebook or see it on youtube.

We get to discuss some of what we liked in each movie, as well as some of the familial aspects of the movies.

Happy Holidays from Geek Family Therapy and Happy New Year

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Catching Up, Character Alignments, Narrative Therapy

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#13: We’ve been gone for a whole month, we are totally sorry.  Yes, it’s Kat’s fault, due to overwhelming work schedules and crisis, as well as getting very sick and then injured, October was just not a good month. But here it is lucky number 13.

Lea and Kat discuss the neutral characters from Marvel and DC.  Kat explains how a character’s alignment help her clients in discussing some of their past traumas utilizing  a  modality of narrative therapy in which she will have her clients externalize their problems from themselves by creating comic versions of themselves and personifying their issues in their comics to help them identify the true problem and its effects on their life.

Of course, Lea and Kat did take an alignment test which confirmed what everyone already knows; Kat is easy.

http://easydamus.com/alignmenttest.html

go check it out yourself and take the test.

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NY Comic Con

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#12: Lea, Kat & Shannon ( the man behind the curtain of GFT) went to New York Comic Con.  On Thursday and Friday the floor was busy but not so busy that it was hard to walk, but on Saturday and Sunday, the press of bodies was insane, making it nearly impossible to walk.  Lea discusses some of the craziness that is cosplaying during a con.  Kat discusses con plague prevention with the use of respirators like the one she got from http://www.un-re.com/   All the things on the page are handmade.

Kat and Leah got to interview Jason Porath the author and creator of Reject Princesses.  http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/

Kat attempted to get the book on Friday from Jason at artist Alley and he had already sold out on Thursday night.  By Friday night Harper-Collins had sold out of the book as well.  Jason was very nice and offered to answer some questions for the podcast.  The interview was during Sunday…. A notoriously busy day at NYCC due to the fact that it is still considered family day at the con.  This is the day that people will normally bring their children so the amount of people is insane.

If you haven’t heard of Rejected Princesses, check out the sight.  Or https://www.facebook.com/rejectedprincesses/ or search Tumblr for Rejected Princesses.  You can buy  the book from Amazon or Barnes & Noble as well it’s hard cover, it’s 384 pages, it’s not recommended for children, and the books go by rating, so the more graphic, the further in the back the story would be.

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Character Alignments pt 1

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#11: This is the episode before NYCC.  Both Leah and Kat have been going for years, and they will be attending again.  There will be, of course, a NYCC exclusive episode discussing family’s who attend conventions, as well family’s who cosplay together.  The plan, maybe speak to family’s on Sunday, which used to be called Family Day.

Not that this is completely off what we would normally talk about but we are discussing Character Alignment.  This episode focuses solely on the good character alignment.   Kat used to play D&D frequently with her Best Friend as the DM and several other friends, playing for hours (usually from 7 pm to somewhere around 6 am) .

After the comic con episode GFT will record the next two episodes, and of course finally discuss the importance of character alignment within D&D and..

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Apps in therapy

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#10: I think I should preface this by saying in no way should any of these apps be used without therapy.  These are not ways to diagnose or treat alone, but in conjunction with mental health professionals.

https://www.codetherapyfilm.com/

Code therapy is a 15 minute documentary that discusses depression.  Discussing that depression is the second largest cause of disability in the world and then discussing apps that can be used to help those who are suffering from depression.

http://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/top-10-mental-health-apps/slideshow/2608/ . The top 10 mental health apps that are discussed during the podcast.  Kat talks about her use of Breath 2 Relax and its use of diaphragmatic breathing (breathing into the belly as opposed to the chest) . Many of the other apps that are on the list express that they should be used with the help of a mental health professional, and Talkspace; an app that  is supposed to make therapy more accessible, has even posted that they are not to be as a substitute for in person therapy.

On psych tech Josúe and Kelly discuss Woebot a CBT AI  that runs with facebook messenger.  I am not going to discuss it I’m just going to leave this link right here for you to listen to it when you can.   https://www.psychtechpodcast.com/?powerpress_pinw=338-podcast

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