Psychiatry Redefined: Learning Dashboard

Overview

The use of humor and laughter in psychotherapy has great potential in a treatment setting, especially for eating disorders. Laughter provides levity in broaching sensitive topics, stimulating insights, diffusing anger, and relating to patients in a more intimate way. The intention of this course is to communicate the value of bringing humor into the therapy session, to provide an assortment of skills and tools to implement humor; and to promote humor as a technique for achieving recovery in the eating disorder population.

In this course, Dr. Carson will discuss the genetics and neuroscientific foundations of laughter, the therapeutic benefits of laughter, and how it restructures neurological pathways, especially for patients with depression. You’ll discover how to work with patients on developing a sense of humor, and bring laughter into therapy sessions with a “humor kit” to generate humor as an alternative to dysfunctional eating behaviors.

Learning Objectives

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Describe the physiology and science of smiling, humor and laughter
• Identify approaches to utilize laughter and humor therapeutically

All refunds must be requested within seven (7) days of enrollment. In order to qualify for a refund, learners must have progressed through less than 10% of the educational content in question. All refunds will be processed minus a 10% transaction fee.