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Humor in Children's Lives A Guidebook for Practitioners
Amelia J. Klein
Book Code: H892
ISBN: 0-89789-892-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-892-8
160 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2003
List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The authors take readers into the different "worlds" or children and describe how humor helped children learn, cope, think creatively, develop social skills, gain self-esteem, and experience a sense of well being.
    —Adolescence     Spring 2005
Description: Examines the significant role that humor plays in meeting children's needs at various stages of development. Children between the ages/stages of preschool to eleven years of age (pre-adolescence) are the focus of this book. Professionals who are creative "users" of humor, and whose work with humor is exemplary in nurturing children's cognitive, social, and/or emotional development, illustrate how humor played a key role in the relationships they developed with children. Authors, representing a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, include: a therapist, teacher educator, child development specialist, art/communication multimedia educator, early childhood teacher, Child Life specialist, and therapeutic hospital clowns. The authors take readers into the different "worlds" of children, and describe how humor helped children learn, cope, think creatively, develop social skills, gain self-esteem, and experience a sense of well being. The role and significance of comic incongruity is illustrated in the context of play, classroom life, artistic expression, medical treatment, and therapy. A final chapter promotes humor as a subject of inquiry in professional development programs across disciplines.
Table of Contents:
  • Taking Humor Seriously
  • Introduction: A Global Perspective of Humor by Amelia Klein
  • Humor, Play, and Child Development by Doris Bergen
  • Humor in Clinical Therapy with Children by Laurie Kilgore
  • Humor Across the Developmental Domains
  • Gravity and Levity-Pain and Play:The Child and the Clown in the Pediatric Health Care Setting by Shobhana Schwekbe and Camilla Gryski
  • Laughing on Camera: Humor in Videos Produced by Children by Michael R. Mosher
  • No Laughing! Playing with Humor in the Classroom by Amelia Struthers
  • Humor, Health, and Healing at Children's Respite Care, Inc.: A Day Care Program for Children with Chronic and Life Threatening Illness by Mary Ellen Rivera
  • Helping Adults Learn the Value of Humor in Children's Lives
  • A course on Children's Humor: A Model for Training Practitioners by Amelia Klein
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2002028312
LCC Class: BF723
Dewey Class: 155
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