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Published on: February 11, 2017
An approach to finding teaching moments on families and child development in Disney films
1University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA, GuerreroA@dop.hawaii.edu.
Objective:
In the interest of finding "teaching moments in film" for psychiatric education and education on child development, the author describes an approach to analyzing Disney--and potentially other children's films--based on specifically observing family structure at the beginning and ending of the story, developmental stage and gender of the protagonist, the developmental crisis, and the external change agent and/or stressor.
Methods:
The author considered a convenience sample of ten popular Disney films.
Results:
A wide variety of family structures and developmental stages and challenges were observed in the reviewed films.
Conclusions:
A matrix approach such as the one illustrated may help psychiatric educators to select effective teaching moments from Disney and other children's films.
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