REC253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dementia, Laughter Yoga, Allen Klein

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC253
• Professor: Leeann Ferries

Document Summary

Humor encourages laughter and immediate pleasure and is a highly variable psychological state (dattilo & mckenney, 2016, p. 292). The use of humor in therapy helps individuals cope with stress and reduce depression (dattilo & It can provide support for reductions in anxiety, improvement associated with pain thresholds, immune systems and learning (dattilo & mckenney, 2016, p. The concept of humor can be adaptive and maladaptive. When used correctly, it can promote successful coping, help people affiliate with one another, and are self-enhancing (dattilo & Adaptive humor is related to low levels of depression, high self- esteem, increased positive affect and high self-competence beliefs (dattilo & mckenney, 2016: 293). Maladaptive humor is self-defeating and aggressive and is associated with higher levels of depression, anxiety and negative affect (dattilo & mckenney, 2016, p. 293). Incongruity: for something to be funny, it must have an element of unexpectedness (dattilo &