Lunch and Learn: When Reality Hits Close to Home- The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives & Managing Multiple Identity Intersections
Dr. LaShawn Williams, LCSW and Dr Kimberly Applewhite, PSY.D
What can reality tv teach us about who we are and what we value? And for Mormon-adjacent people reacting to the new Secret Lives of a Mormon Housewives, could we be entering a new “Mormon moment”? Join Dr. Williams and Dr. Applewhite for a discussion on what we learn when religious identity intersects with media discourse, and what we as therapists can do to facilitate religious identity exploration in functional context with the era of reality television.
Objectives:
– discuss implications of religious identity development, and how this is manifest behaviorally in clients
– explore ways that media context influences identity development and values alignment
– discuss role of reality tv in providing insight to behavioral function