{"id":18557,"date":"2024-02-26T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=18557"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:36:01","slug":"lisa-forbes-interviewed-by-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2024\/02\/26\/lisa-forbes-interviewed-by-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Forbes Interviewed by NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Feb. 2, 2024 | NBC News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>After surviving a pandemic, inflation and environmental crises, many adults, particularly Gen Zers and millennials, appear to be leaning into a nostalgic form of escapism:\u00a0play. The desire for adult\u00a0play\u00a0goes beyond just toys, with the returned to activities, such as sports or crafts, that encourage this sense of fun.\u00a0<b>Lisa Forbes, an assistant clinical professor in the counseling program at the University of Colorado Denver<\/b>, said that this is because people are realizing \u201clife is more than work\u201d and that they shouldn\u2019t have to wait for retirement to have fun.\u00a0Playfulness can also bring people together and develop a community.\u00a0Play\u00a0is often misunderstood as \u201csilly, frivolous, something that kids do.\u201d However, it has proven benefits for adults, like helping them cope with anxiety and boost their moods.\u00a0It doesn\u2019t have to involve certain activities, she said; rather it is a mindset.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/click.communications.cu.edu\/?qs=9e83e14521432c7d2527a69acb7a6bb03adf20dc1c4f355a620bdd3eea59ad9f60ffff0a816349e3c382302a491e9df421fa953d4768aa8c\"><strong>Click here to view &#8211;<\/strong> <\/a><b><a title=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclick.communications.cu.edu%2F%3Fqs%3D9e83e14521432c7d2527a69acb7a6bb03adf20dc1c4f355a620bdd3eea59ad9f60ffff0a816349e3c382302a491e9df421fa953d4768aa8c&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjennifer.woodruff%40ucd\" href=\"https:\/\/click.communications.cu.edu\/?qs=9e83e14521432c7d2527a69acb7a6bb03adf20dc1c4f355a620bdd3eea59ad9f60ffff0a816349e3c382302a491e9df421fa953d4768aa8c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adults Just Want to Have Fun: Why People are Seeking Refuge in Toys and Experiences Again<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 2, 2024 | NBC News After surviving a pandemic, inflation and environmental crises, many adults, particularly Gen Zers and millennials, appear to be leaning into a nostalgic form of escapism:\u00a0play. The desire for adult\u00a0play\u00a0goes beyond just toys, with the returned to activities, such as sports or crafts, that encourage this sense of fun.\u00a0Lisa Forbes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-in-the-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18558,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18557\/revisions\/18558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}