Humor as a Variable in the Process of Change

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Implementing Humor in Therapy

From: Keri Buck
Date: 10/7/03
Time: 5:41:25 PM
Remote Name: 68.63.43.226

Comments

I really enjoyed your article and thought it provided a lot of insight, not only about therapy but also about the nature of people in general. It seems like this idea of introducing humor into therapy would have the greatest impact if the therapist had personally dealt with stuttering. Obviously, as you said, getting to know the client is an essential part of deciding whether or not humor would be effective, and I can see how everyone has common experiences dealing with generalized feelings like embarassment, but I am wondering how a clinician would go about using humor with a client, without having shared firsthand in that experience. It strikes me as being similar to the fact that it's okay for you to laugh at your own family, but no one else had better! Do you think that humor works best in group therapy? I am currently a student, and I will begin working in a clinical setting in the near future, and I am just curious as to how someone like myself would go about putting to use some of the ideas in this paper.


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