Humor For Healing: A Therapeutic Approach

This manual identifies the range of emotions health care workers feel while working with patients and provides guidelines on how to manage the stress more effectively. Health care workers, and thus patients, will learn the effects of stress and how humor can assist in reducing stress and enhancing profession-patient interaction. The material presented in the manual is based on cognitive-behavioral theory and research suggesting humor to be beneficial in strengthening the immune system.

THE MANUAL COVERS:
n Anxiety
n Stress levels
n Effects of stress on human physiology
n Effects of humor on stress and physiology
n Using humor as a coping mechanism
n Positive and negative humor
n Steps to develop humor
KEY FEATURES
n Includes protocols that can be explored individually and privately
n Shows health care workers and patients the benefits of learning how to manage stress
n Provides ways to use skills learned in one's personal life