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How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life
Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health
Jeanie Y. Chang (Author)
9781394210473, Wiley
Hardback, published 29 April 2024
240 pages
23.1 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.476 kg
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:
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.
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
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
