[Audio] BT10 Short Course 28 – Humor Matters: Clinical Applications of Humor in Cognitive Therapy – Steven Sultanoff, PhD

Description:

Humor in the serious realm of psychotherapy? This lively presentation, filled with anecdotes and clinical illustrations, will explore the rationale for and practical application of humor in cognitive therapy. Both cognitive therapy and humor can create change in the central aspects of human experience—cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and physiology. The presenter will explore how humor can be a powerful tool for both diagnosis and treatment, and will differentiate between empathic and hostile styles of humor. With Steven Sultanoff.

Educational Objectives:

1. Describe the link between humor and feelings, behaviors, thoughts, and biochemistry.
2. Use humor as both a treatment and diagnostic tool.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*