The Therapeutic Use of Humor With Clients Who Have Schizophrenia

A positive worker/client relationship contributes greatly to a mental health client’s achievement of intervention goals. Practitioners who work with clients who have schizophrenia sometimes face challenges in developing positive relationships with them when the cognitive impairments characteristic of that disorder make verbal communication difficult. The purpose of this article is to review the indications for using humor with clients in general and then consider the potential for practitioners to use humor as one means of developing constructive working relationships with clients who have schizophrenia. This article does not address the use of specific humor techniques, but considers whether practitioners with a natural sense of humor can use it to their advantage in working with members of this population. Seven principles for the use of humor, and seven client examples, are included.     

The Healing Power of Laughter: The Applicability of Humor as a Psychotherapy Technique With Depressed and Anxious Older Adults

The nation’s older adult population is steadily increasing in numbers as the Baby Boomer generation ages over time. Mental health providers are encountering older adults who are presenting to therapy with problems related to depression and anxiety. The authors demonstrate how empirically-supported treatments such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Problem Solving Therapy, and Interpersonal Therapy are effective in treating older adults within the individual and group counseling setting. Humor as a therapeutic tool is introduced as an easily integrated instrument of positive change through several case studies as depicted by the authors.     

语用预设在蔡明喜剧小品中的应用——以《送礼》为个案研究

语用预设作为语言学的一项重要理论,一直是语用学的重要研究课题之一。众所周知语用预设具有共知性、主观性、单向性和隐蔽性等特点。本文以这些特点为突破口对蔡明小品《送礼》进行个案研究,发现语用预设不仅可以作为一种强有力的语用策略帮助中国喜剧小品实现幽默逗乐的效果,而且在提高小品的创作水平方面也起着至关重要的作用。     

The salience of Black mentors on the teaching praxis of Latino male teachers

ABSTRACT

Despite the growing population of Latino students, little has been done to recognize the potential cultural assets and resilience that Latino communities and Latino teachers can bring to the educational environment. Using Critical Race Theory, in this article, each participant shares their experiences with their Black mentors. This article shares the ways in which Black teachers continue to exemplify Black teaching excellence now with a group that isn’t Black.     

林语堂的美学思想方式

美学思想方式是思想主体对艺术、美或相关问题较自觉的、有一定系统的思考和表述,体现着思想者的审美取向和追求。林语堂在美学思想方式上选择了闲适和幽默的向度,这一选择因区别于现代文学悲剧和正剧的主流选择而显得独特。更内在于这一选择的动力机制是感悟自在生命的美学思维方式。它源出于中国文学与文化的诗性感悟方式,并置入到现代文化多元参照的语境中。受益于这种美学思维方式,林语堂的写作、为学养性、生活的种种都表现出他与众不同的特征。     

二战后西印度群岛黑人移民在美国的同化问题探析

20世纪初西印度群岛黑人移民开始大规模进入美国,于二战后达到高峰。他们在美国建立民族聚居区,积极投身于就业市场并取得可观的经济进步,同时也逐渐摈弃传统观念,主动寻求归化,积极参与美国政治事务等。但作为特殊的黑人移民群体,西印度群岛黑人移民在就业市场中仍存在一定的障碍,其同化进程既有与其他移民群体类似的特征,又具有自身的特性。     

不自由的情态与反自由的形象——新实践美学范畴体系中的喜剧性

在新实践美学范畴体系里,幽默和滑稽属于实践不自由的形象显现的范畴,阳丑则属于反自由形象显现的范畴,它们同属喜剧性维度,喜剧性的本质在于它的滑稽和幽默,所显现的是人在矛盾倒错、荒谬乖讹之中的不自由境况。在喜剧性作品中,喜剧性是通过不自由状态的幽默滑稽与阳丑的三种反自由的形象来相互转化表现的。     

内在对话性的生成——论老舍幽默小说的转型

老舍的幽默风格处于不断发展演化的过程中。在他的初期创作中,悲剧性人物与喜剧性人物界限分明,分工明确。从《离婚》开始,其小说在时势变迁的背景之上通过两种处世方式、两种命运模式的描绘,揭示了社会与个体之间以及他们自身的种种矛盾的纠结。由此使得小说中那类命运步步下滑的人生类型中内蕴着深沉的时代悲剧性,同时在此基础上又逐渐生发出喜剧性;而那些喜剧性的人生类型因这种深沉的时代悲剧意识观照也透露出普泛的悲剧性。但在这种普遍的悲剧性中,老舍又在出走或坚守等生命姿态中带着超然的笑声,其幽默艺术因之逐渐形成内在对话性。     

最蓝的眼睛能给黑人带来什么?——重读托妮·莫里森的《最蓝的眼睛》

女主人公佩科拉对蓝眼睛的畸形渴望,不但反映了美国黑人女性被白人价值观所同化的现实,而且揭示了白人强势文化乃是造成黑人心灵文化迷失的根源.作者莫里森透过<最蓝的眼睛>向世人展示了一个真理:美国黑人只有尊重和继承自己民族的文化价值观和审美观,才能在白人文化占统治地位的美国社会中健康生存.     

Being black and non-citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race,white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa

Post-apartheid South Africa is characterized by growing feelings of pain, anger and frustration amongst black communities triggered by pervasive social inequalities. This has given birth to a new form of political and social activism shaped by crude violence, vandalism, destruction, brutal killings of women and children as well as thuggery in different black communities. It has also led to an upsurge in violence particularly on Africans from other parts of the continent. In this article, I attempt to examine how racial politics and resilient white privilege intersect to trigger afrophobic violence in South Africa. I draw on existing literature on broad conceptions of race and xenophobia to make a set of assertions about racial valuations, the resilience of white supremacy and black on black violence. In the article, I argue that black South Africans' pain, anger and the performance of violence on African migrants are on one level a consequence of resilient structural racism and racial practices, which continue to marginalize, emasculate and dispossess blacks. These racial practices force black South Africans to look elsewhere to express their anger, pains and frustrations.