Addiction Counselors Can Benefit From Appropriate Humor in the Work Setting
✍ Scribed by SHARON TAMARGO WEAVER; C. NICK WILSON
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 466 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-0787
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✦ Synopsis
Using humor in therapy has been controversial. However, recent studies indicate that addiction counselors use humor effectively in therapeutic approaches. Given the high rate of stress-related turnover in the addiction field, counselors need to learn ways to manage their personal and professional stress. Integrating humor in daily work activities reduces stress and increases the ability to have fun a t work.
Humor is Emerson's "merry sphinx," custodian of hidden wisdom, guardian and restorer of sanity. . . . I t creates a tie of mystical fellowship passing swiftly from mind to mind, and heart to heart, like a gleam of sunshine through a winterwood.