Instructor: Steven M. Sultanoff, PhD High Resolution Video and Downloadable Slides Approved for 6 Hours of CE Credit Fulfills requirements for Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs
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Six Hours CE Credit!

This 6-hour course is designed to introduce you to the “serious” nature of humor in psychotherapy, as taught by internationally recognized expert and pioneer "mirthologist", Steven M. Sultanoff, PhD. Throughout the course, Dr. Sultanoff explores the nature of humor by using an entertaining variety of stories, props, cartoons, and video clips. He skillfully integrates multimedia information to help you discover the complex factors underlying humor, its potency as a clinical tool, and the theory and rationale for its application in psychotherapy. Finally, Dr. Sultanoff  focuses on how humor may be used as a diagnostic and treatment tool, as well as a mechanism to enhance communication and deepen the therapeutic alliance. This course is offered in three convenient Online and CD formats available below.

Course Goal and Objectives

Overall goal: To help your understanding how to use humor in psychotherapy to enhance.your communication, diagnostic and treatment skills.

Objectives: Completion of the 6-hour course will enhance your ability to:

• Identify the three core therapeutic impacts of humor.
• Distinguish between the physical, emotional, and cognitive benefits of humor.
• Understand the universal triggers of a humorous experience.
• Integrate a model of therapeutic humor with a fundamental model of psychotherapy.
• Identify fact and fiction related to the physiological benefits of humor.
• Differentiate between the experience of humor and the experience of laughter.
• Understand how humor relieves cognitive and emotional distress.
• Embrace how humor helps develop the therapeutic alliance.
• Understand when to use humor in psychotherapy and the associated risks.
  
• Identify appropriate and inappropriate targets of humor.
• Identify how humor can be used as a diagnostic and treatment tool.
• Understand how to develop and expand one’s humor interventions.

Registration Information $125.00 $125.00 $75.00

CE Approval Information This course fulfills 6 hours Continuing Education credit for licensed mental health professionals in most states. The Steve Frankel Group, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists.  The Steve Frankel Group, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Approved for MFTs and LCSWs by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Read More...   Play Our Course Samples Now!