Let’s Get Critical: Harry, Meghan, and Mental Health

This episode is eligible for CE credit - Counselors & Social Workers

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Summary

The "Let's Get Critical" series explores current social and cultural movements, moments, and events from a counseling perspective.  In this episode, Dr. Aisha Al-Qimlass discusses how public fascination with Prince Harry and Meghan Markel impact perceptions of family estrangement and mental health stigma.

Learning Objectives

• Identify types of family estrangement - precipitating factors, relational types, and common beliefs
• Examine the role of gender on social perceptions of family estrangement
• Consider difference between speculation and confessional phases of celebrity mental health disclosure
• Examine ways to mitigate socially conditioned expectations around mental illness and treatment in counseling and counselor education.