Humor and Wellness in Clinical Intervention
- Book Review,
by Waleed A. Salameh (Editor)
From Book News, Inc.
This handsomely-bound volume contains ten contributions from practitioners considering the uses of humor in psychotherapy. Clinicians Salameh (editor of the Humor and Health Journal) and Fry (medicine, Stanford U.) contend that humor makes an important contribution to wellness. Topics addressed include, for example, the uses of humor in treating the mentally ill, in psychotherapy with children and adolescents, in career counseling, in coping with disasters, and in the 12-step recovery process.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Review
The breadth and practicality of these offerings make this work an excellent supplement. . . . The additional topics covered here are necessary and significant to an understanding of humor in mental health. [Recommended for] graduate students through professionals.Choice
Book Description
Presenting a cutting-edge theory for using humor in psychotherapy, counseling, and clinical intervention, this volume brings together a group of outstanding experts in the field of clinical intervention. Each chapter shows how humor can play a vital role in the promotion of wellness in general and in mental health wellness in particular. It provides specific theoretical perspectives aimed at helping readers develop both their awareness of humor as a clinical tool and dexterity in using humor to facilitate productive change during the therapeutic process.
About the Author
WALEED A. SALEMEH is a clinical psychologist in private practice. WILLIAM F. FRY, JR., is a psychiatrist in private practice and Associate Professor at Stanford University.
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