Leader: Steve Johnson, Ph.D. Sc.D.
Date:Friday, January 30, 2015
Time: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Registration: $75 | Students: $65 | 3 CE Credits
Albert Ellis frequently used humor, along with the more common didactic and Socratic styles of challenging a client’s faulty cognitions. Humor can be a powerful aspect of developing a strong therapeutic alliance with a client and as a means to help clients change unhelpful attitudes. This workshop will cover various forms of humor, effective use of the various forms of humor, cautions in using humor with clients, and developing humorous disputes relevant to a client and the client’s specific unhelpful cognitions. Sample cases and live demonstrations will be offered in a fun supportive environment.
Learning objectives:
1) Identify factors which impact what an individual finds humorous.
2) Employ various forms of disputes for unhelpful beliefs producing emotional disturbance.
3) Apply humor in conjunction with heurtistic, empirical, and logical disputes for self-defeating beliefs.
4) Recognize humorous online resources to be used by clients in between sessions to provide practice challenging various unhelpful beliefs and thereby reinforce emotional and behavioral change.
Registration: $75 | Students: $65 | 3 CE Credits
Continuing Education Credit:
Albert Ellis Institute (AEI) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. AEI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
“The Albert Ellis Institute is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.”
This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (provider #886486451) for continuing education contact hours.