CANCELED What's So Funny About Pain & Suffering?: The Use of Humor in Treatment (Online)

How can humor be used as a viable tool for therapy? Regardless of the reason a person is in treatment, they are faced with the pain of being human. Yet, when we help someone survive the suffering of one crisis, it can help them become resilient and discover a way to thrive through future difficulties. Humor helps one feel a connection with others who have experienced similar situations of shame, loss, betrayal, and disappointment. Join Don Streit and explore - through storytelling, film clips, and discussion of the literature on the use of humor as a therapeutic intervention - ways to infuse treatment with healthy humor. We will also discuss situations in which use of humor could be counterproductive and impede the therapeutic effect.

This program has been CANCELED. Please check back in a future semester for another chance to take this workshop.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

Don Streit (MSW, LCSW) is from Little Rock, AR, where he is in private practice. Since 1992, he has taught core graduate school courses including ego psychology, CBT and personality disorders, group therapy, family therapy, and spirituality and social work. Since 1997, he has presented workshops on Jungian topics - the shadow archetype; dream interpretation; spiritual approaches to treatment; the hero’s/heroine’s journey. Most recently he has presented workshops at the Jung Center of Houston, Texas, and the Center for Jungian Studies of South Florida - Ft. Lauderdale. He has presented Ethics for social workers since 2016.