The Use of Humor in Therapy : Research-Based Training Recommendations

Despite its essential and universal nature, humor has historically received limited attention from the behavioral sciences, particularly as compared to other affective experiences like anger and sadness. Some authors (e.g., Bell & Malhi, 2009; Provine, 2000a; Roeckelein, 2002) suggest that this is because researchers have traditionally failed to "take humor seriously" and, according to O'Connell (cited in Roeckelein, 2002), have too often pursued its study in a piecemeal manner lacking scientific rigor, resulting in "no comprehensive network of facts about the development and purposes of humor in human existence" (p. 1). Roeckelein (2002) found not a single mention of humor, laughter, wit, comedy, or theories relating to these topics in introductory psychology textbooks published between 1930 and 1996.While research interest in the area has grown, especially over the last decade, it remains an elusive and nebulous topic, more likely to be examined in specialty psychology texts (e.g., social psychology and child development) than general ones (Martin, 2007; Roeckelein, 2002). Organizations (e.g., The International Society for Humor Studies; The Association for the Advancement of Therapeutic Humor), journals (e.g., Humor: International Journal of Humor Research) and internet phenomena such as "The Humor Project" (www.humorproiect.com) have made great strides in integrating information about humor from discreet fields such as the arts and humanities, biological and social sciences, education, and business management. Still, the therapeutic potential of humor remains a relatively young subject of serious scientific inquiry (Marci, Moran, & Orr, 2004; Sala, Krupat, & Roter, 2002). While humor does make appearances in self-help books and publications addressing clinical applications, these sources are much ...

Adding Color to Feminism: White Privilege Within the Women's Liberation Movement.

This paper will explore how white privilege has been intertwined with the women's liberation movement in the United States. Feminism and its goals are described briefly and linked to an evaluation of white privilege within the movement. The feminist movement is explored throughout its three waves, including a class and race analysis of each separate period. In addition, this analysis focuses on how Black and Chicana women have been excluded from the mainstream, White, middle-class movement. Through the use of Social Dominance Theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999), the prevalence and impact of oppression and hierarchy are explored. The implications of oppression and exclusion in the current political climate are followed by suggestions for aligning the goals and direction of feminism with social justice.

Conservadores ou progressistas: como o judiciário de Piracicaba/SP se posiciona nos pleitos pela proibição da queima da palha de cana-de-açúcar

Este estudo analisa os fatores, as tendências e as fundamentações jurídico-ideológicas que permeiam as decisões judiciais em Ações Civis Públicas, impetradas pelo Ministério Público do Estado de São Paulo (MPSP) e Federal (MPF), requerendo a proibição imediata da queima da palha de cana-de-açúcar, na região de Piracicaba/SP. Para isso, foram levantadas, junto aos órgãos jurisdicionais da cidade de Piracicaba, as Ações Civis Públicas impetradas em face de grandes usinas e agropecuárias dedicadas ao cultivo e industrialização da cana-de-açúcar, requerendo a proibição da queima da palha na lavoura desde o advento da Lei nº 7.347 de 1985 até 2014, ano em que finalizou-se a pesquisa empírica desta dissertação. Nesses padrões, a pesquisa arrojou a existência de quatro processos, dos quais foram extraídas para análise a totalidade de vinte-e-um (21) manifestações judiciais. O marco teórico-metodológico empregado foi a abordagem marxista da filosofia da linguagem, perspectiva capaz de proporcionar uma fecunda imersão não só no que se diz, mas nas condições de produção desse dizer, valorizando a função socioideológica da palavra, permitindo vislumbrar a visão social de mundo de quem a emprega ou do grupo social ao qual o autor pode ou não pertencer (VOLOCHINOV,1929; GOLDMANN, 1979). Conclui-se que, nos pleitos judiciais pela proibição imediata da queima da cana-de-açúcar em Piracicaba/SP, o Poder Judiciário se mostra majoritariamente conservador, arguindo e decidindo pela continuidade da prática em evidente defesa do setor sucroalcooleiro. No entanto, se reconhece a importância do tímido mas importante viés progressista por parte do judiciário, uma vez que somente nas contradições presentes nas diferentes práxis jurídicas pode avançar-se no processo permanente de construção de um direito comprometido com a obtenção de igualdade e justiça social.

Sustainable Development and its Discontents

Sustainable development (or sustainability) is a decision-making framework for maintaining and achieving human well-being, both in the present and into the future. The framework requires both consideration and achievement of environmental protection, social justice and economic development. In that framework, environmental protection must be integrated into decisions about social and economic development, and social justice and economic viability must be integrated into decisions about environmental quality. First endorsed by the world’s nations in 1992, this framework is intended to provide an effective response to the twin global challenges of growing environmental degradation and widespread extreme poverty. Sustainability provides a framework for humans to live in harmony with nature, rather than at nature’s expense. It may therefore be one of the most important ideas to come out of the 20th century. In the last two decades, the framework has become a touchstone in nearly every economic sector and at every level of government, unleashing an extraordinary range of creativity in all of those realms. Sustainable development is having a significant effect on the practice of law and on the way in which laws are written and implemented. Understanding the framework is increasingly important for law makers and lawyers. As sustainable development (or sustainability) has grown in prominence, its critics have become more numerous and more vocal. Three major lines of criticism are that the term is “too boring” to command public attention, “too vague” to provide guidance, and “too late” to address the world’s problems. Critics suggest goals such as abundance, environmental integrity, and resilience. Beginning with the international agreements that shaped the concept of sustainable development, this Article provides a functional and historical analysis of the meaning of sustainable development. It then analyzes and responds to each of these criticisms in turn. While the critics, understood constructively, suggest ways of strengthening this framework, they do not provide a compelling alternative. The challenge for lawyers, law makers, and others is to use and improve this framework to make better decisions.

Estudio de caso de los sMOOC y su pedagogía en el contexto online

En un contexto dominado por las nuevas tecnologías, los MOOCs parecen posicionarse como una alternativa o complemento a la formación tradicional. Se observa sin embargo, que la metodología empleada por este tipo de cursos masivos, no difiere de la comúnmente utilizada en el aula. Este artículo evalúa y describe una nueva tipología de MOOC, denominada Social MOOC, la cual se presenta como disruptiva en cuanto a pedagogía se refiere. A través de la plataforma ECO Learning, se analiza de forma exhaustiva mediante un estudio de caso, la pedagogía empleada y el rol que asume el estudiante en el primer sMOOC llevado a cabo que tuvo lugar durante los meses de marzo y abril de 2015. Se concluye, que la pedagogía empleada en esta nueva versión social de los ya citados MOOC, es innovadora tanto dentro como fuera del contexto digital. Los estudiantes asumen un papel muy activo y la comunicación se torna de un carácter bidireccional entre el facilitador y los mismos.

Educación para el espírito empreendedor : informe de una experiencia en una Institución de Educación Superior

El concepto de espíritu emprendedor se entiende actualmente como una competencia transversal, fundamental para el desarrollo humano, social y económico. Sin embargo, tradicionalmente se há asociado solo a las áreas económicas y de negocios, a pesar de que venimos observando un cambio gradual en esta concepción. Así, en la última década, se ha producido un verdadero incremento en el papel de la educación para el desarrollo de las competencias relacionadas con el espíritu emprendedor, puesto que pueden y deben ser aprendidas y desarrolladas desde muy pronto. Este reconocimiento de la importancia de la educación en el desarrollo del espíritu emprendedor otorga una nueva responsabilidad a las instituciones educativas, en particular a la educación superior. Es precisamente sobre la educación del espíritu emprendedor en la educación superior que este artículo habla. El artículo presenta el ejemplo de dos centros (Centro de Aprendizaje y Desarrollo de la Infancia-CeADIn y el Centro de Ciencia, Tradición & Cultura-CT&C) de la misma institución de educación superior que, aunque con una estructura de organización, objetivos, estrategias y formas de trabajo diversas, tienen algunos puntos en común, como el hecho de que pretenden educar para el espíritu emprendedor tanto a niños, como a jóvenes y adultos, involucrando en este proceso a los alumnos de los cursos de formación del profesorado.

The Institutional Framework of the Labour Market. Factor Markets Working Paper No. 25, February 2012

Following the identification of relevant labour market characteristics in Deliverable 9.1 (Factor Markets Working Paper No. 25), a survey was designed and implemented across the participant countries in the Factor Markets project. These survey results are detailed in this paper, Deliverable 9.3. The focus is of the survey, which was completed with the assistance of project partner teams, included, employment market, labour legislation, wage-setting mechanisms, unions, taxation and social benefits, education and training, labour mobility and general features of agriculture. Based on the questions posed and the responses received in the survey, in broad terms the agricultural labour market characteristics in the countries under study are not as heterogeneous as one might anticipate. Some of the differences, such as minimum rates of pay, are common to sectors other than agriculture also. There is a notable lack of a regional pattern to the labour market characteristics, i.e. no strong evidence of a north/south or east/west divide. Moreover, the labour market characteristics of one country are not necessarily a good indicator of the labour market characteristics of neighbouring countries.

A revolução capitalista

The Capitalist Revolution was the period of the transition from the ancient societies to capitalism; it was a long transition that began in North Italy, in the 14th century, and for the first time got completed in England, in the second part of the 18th century, with the formation of the nation state and the Industrial Revolution; it is a major rupture, which divided the history of mankind between a period where empires or civilizations prospered and fell into decadence and disappeared, to a period of ingrained economic development and long-term improvement of standards of living. Since then the different peoples are engaged in the social construction of their nations and their states; since then, they are experiencing economic development, because capitalism is essentially dynamic; since then they are struggling for the political objectives that they historically defined for themselves since that revolution: security, freedom, economic well-being, social justice, and protection of the environment.

[Official program of the first national convention held in Cleveland, August 14, 15 and 16, 1936]

Mode of access: Internet.

Transitions to kindergarten in American schools /

"Contract no. LC88089001."

Staff training for personnel in institutions for juvenile delinquents; report of a workshop

"Sponsored by Children's Bureau ... in cooperation with: the Council on Social Work Education, Rutgers University, Graduate School of Social Work, National Association of Training Schools and Juvenile Agencies [and] National Probation and Parole Association."

The six-hour day & other industrial questions,

Editor's foreward.--Introduction by Viscount Haldane.--The six-hour day.--Co-partnership.--Housing and social welfare.--Education and business.--Some industrial questions.

Weckrufe : kommunistische Gesänge /

Translation of Chants communal.

The foes of our own household.

The instant need ; and the ultimate need -- Must we be brayed in a mortar before our folly depart from us? -- The children of the crucible -- Washington and Lincoln -- A square deal in law enforcement -- Industrial justice ; the tool-owner and the tool-user -- Social justice ; the brotherly court of Philadelphia -- Socialism versus social reform -- The farmer ; the corner-stone of civilization -- The word of Micah ; the religion of service -- The parasite woman ; the only indispensable citizen -- Birth reform ; from the positive, not the negative side -- Appendix A. Why we are at war ; the German horror -- Appendix B. Fair play for all Americans -- Appendix C. Murder is not debatable -- Appendix D. The "conscientious objector." -- Appendix E. The Hun within our gates -- Appendix F. Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time -- Appendix G. Correspondence with the President and the secretary of war.

School and home program Flint, Michigan.

"One of a series of successful compensatory education programs."