Psychology 3229A/B Chapter : Week 11 Humour and Therapy .docx
5 Dec 2014
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Week 11: applications of humour in psychotherapy, education, and the workplace. When applying humour, ppl have jumped on bandwagon and have made many claims but have jumped to conclusion. Martin thinks its concerning what ppl are doing. Often corny, and very simplistic: often when suggesting to bring humour in the work place, it seems corny and simplistic. Laughter positive mood more productive: part of risk getting on bandwagon. Academic researchers will be distant away from that if it"s a fad. More of an end than a means: the therapists role is modeling a humour outlook and encouraging an spontaneous humour of the client. Humour therapy humour as the pathway to mental health it should be a lot of laughs, if you can get them laughing, then that"s good , that"ll solve it: more complex than that. It seems too simplistic little research: specific humour techniques.
