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Archetype Cards Offer An Exciting New Tool To Connect With Teens
CHICAGO, March 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A Teenage Archetype Card Deck
designed by a variety of artists is helping therapists and educators
connect with teens by evoking dialogue and expression to help them
better communicate their thoughts and emotions. Award-winning Art
Professor, Jennifer Hereth, recently began offering the collection of
88 cards to therapists, guidance counselors and educators to be used
as a tool to work with youth and young adults. The cards are intended
for use in a classroom or therapeutic setting.
The Teenage Archetype Card Deck consists of 88 4"x6" cards created
by more than 50 talented art students. Each card showcases an image of
a person, personality or behavior. The cards were crafted specifically
for teenage clientele and use both classic and contemporary teenage
language for archetypes. For example, one card may say "mother" with
an image of a mother and daughter while another card says and shows a
"besty" - a new term used by teens to identify a good friend. Other
cards showcase powerful messages like "achiever," "addict," "player,"
"loner," "confused" and "failure."
The mix of old and new terminology helps to identify standard roles
and behaviors as well as more modern identifiers that relate to teens
today.
"The unique visuals on the cards are not simply illustrations of a
term, but instead they are meant to evoke dialogue," Jennifer Hereth,
creator of the Teenage Archetype Card Deck, said. "Some teens need
help communicating their thoughts and feelings about important issues,
people in their lives or even themselves. These cards help them to do
that."
Hereth was inspired to create the cards after learning about a mall
shooting by a 19-year old male in Omaha in 2007. The teenage
perpetrator entered a department store and shot and killed eight
people and himself. His text messages sent to family and friends prior
to the shootings included, "I'm a loser. I'm a burden. I'm a burden
but now I'm famous."After hearing the story, Hereth was stunned. She
knew she wanted to give teens a way to open up to those around them
and get their message out in more than just three or four words in a
text message.
Following the incident in Omaha and other similar violence acted out
by teens, Hereth and a team of student artists produced a deck of
archetype cards as a way to help teens articulate their feelings.
Hereth acknowledges that while she is not a therapist, she is a
painter, teacher and mother to a teenage boy. She also has spent a
great deal of time communicating with teenagers as she instructs more
than 100 art students in her classes. She knows that teens don't like
to feel "lectured" by adults, and she feels that having the cards be
designed by so many different people helps them to better identify
with certain archetypes.
The Teenage Archetype Card Deck is not just for troubled youth. It is
also used by educators to create engaging dialogue and imaginative
assignments based on the images depicted in the cards. Included with
the card deck are suggestions for both therapists and teachers on how
to use it. With 88 unique and thought-provoking cards and the
encouragement of open-ended dialogue, the possibilities for discussion
and activities are endless.
Sheryl Palicki, M.S., uses the cards regularly as the Career Counselor
at the Technology Center of DuPage, a regional career and technical
education high school.
"The Archetype Card Deck can be utilized for multiple classroom
activities," Palicki said. "Each card artistically portrays an
individual personality or behavior. When we use the cards at school,
the synergy in the room becomes stimulating and invigorating. Students
immediately are comforted in knowing other teens feel the same way
they do."
Hereth has also recently released a new collection of Archetype
Motivational Posters which feature images of select cards along with
an individual that identifies with each one in order to show how teens
connect with the archetypes. For example, one poster depicts a student
completing studies to be a paramedic. He chose the "Rescuer" card to
describe himself.
For more information or to purchase a Teenage Archetype Card Deck or
Archetype Motivational Poster, visit http://jenniferhereth.com. You
can also check out the Facebook page at
http://facebook.com/ArchetypeCards.
About Jennifer Hereth Jennifer Hereth, creator of the Teenage
Archetype Card Deck, is an award-winning painter and art teacher. She
holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Fine Arts from the School of the
Art Institute in Chicago and has completed additional graduate work
and certificates abroad. She has served as an advisor and professor at
numerous highly-regarded educational institutions and is currently a
professor at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. She was one of
20 recipients in North America chosen by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
for the Fellowship for International Studies, and she was one of the
Today's Chicago Women "100 Women Who Make a Difference." In 2010, with
the collaboration of more than 50 different art students, she compiled
a deck of 88 archetype cards which are now used by top therapists,
guidance counselors and educators around the world to help teens and
youth evoke dialogue and identify their emotions. For more
information, visit http://jenniferhereth.com.
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