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Finding yourself in pop culture and Ghost hunting

July 18, 2017 by KatMFT Leave a Comment

#7: Kat got to explore one of her fandoms, geeky likes, nerd like passions… whatever you want to call it… But she went to see Eastern State Penitentiary. It is a jail that was built in 1829 and closed in 1971. This did pique Kat’s love of history (especially haunted history) and some psychological aspects in learning that when the prison first opened everyone was brought in to single cells with hoods on their heads so no one knew who they were, and their exercise yard was attached to their cells….individual exercise yards. Imagine doing 15 years of solitary confinement, because that is what it is.

Lea and Kat sat and discussed the importance of being able to find super hero’s or any comic character that look like us. The importance of being able to see that even though we are minorities that we can find someone to look up to even if they are make believe. In therapy we use pop figures (not really Funko Pops) to help get children who do not know how to verbally identify their emotions to at least begin with physical representation with characters such as Winnie the pooh or Kat’s favorites the emotes. (www.emotes.com), little action figure monsters that help children, identify, understand and express their emotions. Kat loves these toys. But with some of our older clients toys aren’t good enough Kat has utilized Comicspedia to help find comic books that will help clients express themselves by having similar situations the children might be going through. www.comicspedia.net Lastly Kat mentions Geek Therapy’s own data base they are still compiling, which when complete will have access to The Geek Therapy library can be found https://www.geektherapy.com/?s=library

If you are like Kat and are trying to find more Latino/a superhero check out buzzfeeds list of the 15 top Latino Superhero’s you need to know

https://www.buzzfeed.com/pablovaldivia/incredible-latino-superheroes-you-need-to-know?utm_term=.doPg1Y0K6#.tiJVpwOE5

If you know any please let us know on our twitter

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Family of choice vs. Family of origin

June 24, 2017 by KatMFT Leave a Comment

#6: Family of origin is the people who we are born into, or marry into. While Family of Choice are the people that we choose to have involved in out lives. These people will become like siblings, uncles, aunts or even surrogate parents for us.

In fiction family of choice is often used to help create a family with people that they have more in common with, especially when the main character has developed some type of supernatural powers. The new family shares similar powers or secrets.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FamilyOfChoice

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Level 60 Bikini Virgin Killer Sweater

May 23, 2017 by KatMFT Leave a Comment

#4: Why when I play a female fighter or wizard or ranger or whatever when I play a video game the higher level my character is the less armor my character seems to be wearing. My armor class is higher, that is cool, but it looks like I’m riding through Azeroth naked, or in a bikini.

But when you pick up the armor in any dungeon, it will look like a really cool breast plate, or chain mail pants and when you put it on it’s like a loincloth. Is this what guys are looking for?

Anyway these costumes are not practical. Women in comic books, anime, video games really do allow for more movement but other than that they do not allow for more protection. In comic books our super hero’s are dressed in belts and straps. Boys idolize these looks but do not women to actually dress like this. They would prefer women to be dressed like the movie version of Gamora. So fully clothed in real life and naked every other time. Women are made to fit roles that are forced on them in society. But when women follow the role and embraces it, she is ridiculed and demeaned. http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1216223-virgin-killing-sweater . This sweater was created in a meme from a cosplayer, and now has gone insane. Many cosplayers, have purchased it and done photoshoots in it. Of course there have been trolls who anonymously behind their computer screen safely tucked behind their laptops, they insult these cosplayers or degrade them. There are 155 million Americans who play games regularly and out of that, 48% of them are female. When approximately half of the gamers being female, it is still not ” safe” for female gamers. It’s not just small insults of being called a noob or loser, when a man knows a woman is playing games it is rape jokes and insulting their looks, even though they don’t know how they look. But, why would they think that a woman should be treated any different from their “naked” characters in a game.

This episode will discuss more of how the media continues to allow these

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Trauma Porn & new home tech

May 7, 2017 by KatMFT Leave a Comment

#3: Starting off, we are apologizing for Lea & Kat sounding very congested, as tree sex attempts to kill them by hindering their breathing.

Kat gets to gush about her new computer and software she is using to record and edit with (thanks Shannon.) Because new tech is always fun to talk about, and gush about, and get and play with.

Why are people so fascinated by watching bad things happen? As a society when there is a car accident we slow down to see what is going on, to see the chaos, the carnage, we pray that the people are okay while secretly hoping there is blood. WHY???? Daddy O Five of YouTube fame is the car wreck. People have stopped on his channel to watch him and his wife “prank” his children. All of the pranks have bordered on emotional and verbal abuse, where they curse at their children and call them names, things that we tell our children not to do to other children and here are grown adults doing it to their own children. This channel has over 700,000 followers and it took way too many videos for someone to finally say that this was not right. They have been interviewed by several different media outlets and finally issued a very heavily scripted apology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYTdYRPPpw&t=20s

This family has posted videos clearly showing that their youngest child has emotion issues, where he has self harmed, and instead of getting him help they belittle him and punish him. the youngest also is suffering from encopresis or he is playing with his feces which is evidence of developmental regression. Again, with these signs the family did not seek out help but decided to ridicule him on video, in front of over 700K people.

Finally the biological mother has gotten custody of two of the children.

http://www.distractify.com/trending/2017/05/02/1tHJOP/daddyofive-children-emergency-custody?utm_content=inf_470_53_2&tse_id=INF_8293d9e02f7b11e7a543c52ccdba27e5

Listen to the rant and how the decisions can be made.

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Welcome & Viral

April 10, 2017 by KatMFT Leave a Comment

#1: OMG we finally have our first podcast for everyone! Welcome to GFT!

Meet your hosts Kat La Forgia a Masters in Marriage and Family therapy who works in Pennsylvania as a Family Home Based Therapist.

Lea who works in foster care and has her Masters in Media Psychology. This episode we are introducing ourselves and talking about what we will be discussing as we continue in this podcast; as well as Viral Media and why and how it affects families.

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