Full Description
Discover the power of how K-Dramas can improve your wellbeing and provide a sense of belonging
Love K-Dramas and want more permission to binge watch them? In How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Jeanie Y. Chang explores what K-Dramas can teach us about our own well-being and how we can use the lessons they teach us to live better and more meaningful lives. She also touches upon the powerful interrelationship between K-dramas, mental health, and belongingness. Topics covered include:
Using K-Dramas as a roadmap to life, showing you how to navigate speed bumps, roadblocks, twists, turns, and dead ends
Building cross-cultural relationships that you otherwise may not have without being a K-Drama fan
Processing grief from the loss of a loved one to a loss of anything—a job, your physical safety, a relationship, or something else
Harnessing the idea of Jeong, which is innate in Korean society and refers to the emotional sentiment of affinity, affection, kinship, and connection which is the thread throughout Jeanie's community
Working the author's trademarked mental health framework, Cultural Confidence®, to build up your mental health, identity, mindfulness, and resilience
For K-Drama fans and enthusiasts and anyone curious about the influence of pop culture, How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life is an entertaining and educational must-read on how this enormously popular global phenomenon can help us become the best versions of ourselves.
Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction xi
Part I The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Mental Health 1
Chapter 1 The Global Appeal of K-Dramas 3
Chapter 2 K-Dramas Are for Self-Care 15
Chapter 3 K-Dramas and Processing Grief 35
Chapter 4 K-Dramas and Korean Han 47
Chapter 5 K-Dramas and Healing Our Traumas 57
Chapter 6 K-Dramas and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 71
Chapter 7 K-Dramas and Suicide Awareness 81
Chapter 8 K-Dramas and Coping with Depression 91
Chapter 9 K-Dramas and Managing Anxiety 105
Part II The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Identity 117
Chapter 10 K-Dramas and Life Stages 119
Chapter 11 K-Dramas and Cultural Identity 133
Chapter 12 K-Dramas and Neurodiversity 151
Part III The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Resilience 159
Chapter 13 K-Dramas and the Workplace 161
Chapter 14 K-Dramas = Belongingness + Jeong 169
Resource List 181
References 183
Acknowledgments 187
About the Author 189
Index 191
