New Perspectives On Medical Clowning

Author : Amnon Raviv
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Clowning
ISBN : 1032423307

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New Perspectives on Medical Clowning by Amnon Raviv Pdf

Taking the recent coronavirus pandemic as a starting point, this book presents and analyzes new research around medical clowning in hospitals, from social media use to the impact on the hospitalized child in later life. This innovative book begins with an overview of the work of medical clowns. It discusses the idea of humor as a mechanism related to the revolution in language and human consciousness, and makes a connection between humor and anxiety, exploring how this can be mobilized to support hospitalized patients. There is extensive examination of medical clowning to strengthen coping skills and promote wellbeing in the time of Covid-19, where loneliness and isolation loomed large and anxieties were high. Subsequent chapters explore the role of medical clowning in wartime and at time of natural disasters, the experiences of children some time after their experience of hospitalization and clowning, and the role of social media and medical clowns in community building. This book is a fascinating contribution to the literature on medical clowning. It is of interest to researchers, practitioners, and lecturers in medical clowning, play in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and performance studies.

Author : Amnon Raviv
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000897500

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New Perspectives on Medical Clowning by Amnon Raviv Pdf

Taking the recent coronavirus pandemic as a starting point, this book presents and analyzes new research around medical clowning in hospitals, from social media use to the impact on the hospitalized child in later life. This innovative book begins with an overview of the work of medical clowns. It discusses the idea of humor as a mechanism related to the revolution in language and human consciousness, and makes a connection between humor and anxiety, exploring how this can be mobilized to support hospitalized patients. There is extensive examination of medical clowning to strengthen coping skills and promote wellbeing in the time of Covid-19, where loneliness and isolation loomed large and anxieties were high. Subsequent chapters explore the role of medical clowning in wartime and at time of natural disasters, the experiences of children some time after their experience of hospitalization and clowning, and the role of social media and medical clowns in community building. This book is a fascinating contribution to the literature on medical clowning. It is of interest to researchers, practitioners, and lecturers in medical clowning, play in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and performance studies.

Author : Amnon Raviv
Publisher : Enactments - (Seagull Titles CHUP)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Clowns
ISBN : 0857423878

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Medical Clowning by Amnon Raviv Pdf

Clowns are not just the stuff of backyard children's parties anymore. These days, clown doctors see patients--especially children--to introduce humor and imagination into an anxiety-filled and painful experience. The origins of medical clowning can be traced to the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit at the Infants and Children's Hospital of New York, established about thirty years ago. Since that time, the practice has developed extensively and medical clowns now work in hospitals around the world. Over the past ten years, the number of scientific studies on medical clowning has increased, with findings showing the important contribution of medical clowns to children and adults suffering from mild to incurable illnesses. Medical Clowning is the first guide to this phenomenon, summing up decades of research, education, and practice to give readers a comprehensive look into this innovative field. Amnon Raviv analyzes the performance of medical clowns, looking at research and case studies, and goes on to propose a training and evaluation model, including hands-on exercises to train experienced clowns for work in hospitals.

Author : Victoria Valdebenito Mac Farlane
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527592902

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Healthcare Clowns in Palliative Care in Chile by Victoria Valdebenito Mac Farlane Pdf

This book details results of a study that sought to understand the relationship of children who were provided palliative cancer care, their families and the palliative care unit team members with healthcare clowns of an organization that is part of this team. More specifically, the book explores the roles healthcare clowns play in an Oncology Unit and PINDA center in Santiago, Chile. With a qualitative approach, an emergent and cross-sectional design, and strict ethical considerations, data were collected between December 2019 and December 2020. In total, 36 participants were interviewed, while drawings and photographs were collected as documents, and discussion groups were held for each cluster (encompassing mothers, the clinical team and healthcare clowns) to deepen aspects revealed in the interview analysis. Within the book, the results of the research are arranged in emerging themes related to positive effects on well-being and quality of life, especially for validation and emotional regulation, the humane healthcare that the healthcare clown provides in this context, the healthcare clown as a mediator in this transition period, bonds of friendship with children and their inclusion as family members, and the complementarity of this technique with traditional treatments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004433564

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The Clown Doctor Chronicles by Anonim Pdf

This is the first book in English to provide a close-up view of the emotional and rewarding experiences of clown-doctors working with hospitalized children. It describes the development of a new program in a pediatric hospital and all the challenges that confront clown-doctors. The book recounts work that takes place over a few months in 1999-2000. Most of the children that are described had been diagnosed with leukemia and other serious forms of cancer. They were hospitalized often and ran the risk of death. This book is a tale of love and humor and of dealing with great traumas and tragedy. It tells of the immense compassion and the amazing resilience of individuals in the most stressful and debilitating of circumstances. It is a small window looking onto what it is to be human with all our strengths and frailties and of how complete strangers can become bonded to one another through laughter and pain. The story presented here is based upon real case studies annotated with occasional commentaries to put these experiences into perspective. Above all else this book is a celebration and an homage to all the children, their parents and care-givers who have shared their lives with clown-doctors in many countries around the world. The Clown-Doctor Chronicles is written to 'speak' to people of all ages: men and women; professionals, trades people and homemakers in cities, towns and villages; for laughter and illness know no boundaries. It will be of particular interest to parents, artists in hospitals and anybody working with children (health care professionals, educators, psychologists).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464900488

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Pancreatic Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Pancreatic Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Pancreatic Cancer. The editors have built Pancreatic Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Pancreatic Cancer in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Pancreatic Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483346175

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Encyclopedia of Humor Studies by Salvatore Attardo Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Humor: A Social History explores the concept of humor in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. This work’s scope encompasses the humor of children, adults, and even nonhuman primates throughout the ages, from crude jokes and simple slapstick to sophisticated word play and ironic parody and satire. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, child development, social psychology, life style history, communication, and entertainment media. Readers will develop an understanding of the importance of humor as it has developed globally throughout history and appreciate its effects on child and adult development, especially in the areas of health, creativity, social development, and imagination. This two-volume set is available in both print and electronic formats. Features & Benefits: The General Editor also serves as Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for The International Society for Humor Studies. The book’s 335 articles are organized in A-to-Z fashion in two volumes (approximately 1,000 pages). This work is enhanced by an introduction by the General Editor, a Foreword, a list of the articles and contributors, and a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically. A Chronology of Humor, a Resource Guide, and a detailed Index are included. Each entry concludes with References/Further Readings and cross references to related entries. The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and cross references between and among related entries combine to provide robust search-and-browse features in the electronic version. This two-volume, A-to-Z set provides a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers in such diverse fields as communication and media studies, sociology and anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, history, literature and linguistics, and popular culture and folklore.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1418 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464900044

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Breast Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Breast Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Breast Cancer. The editors have built Breast Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Breast Cancer in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Breast Cancer: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Emma Brodzinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230293496

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Theatre in Health and Care by Emma Brodzinski Pdf

This unique book examines theatre practice that takes place within a range of health and care settings from medical training to advocacy projects for service users. Drawing on a range of case studies, the book provides insights into working practices as well as posing critical questions in relation to the field.

Author : Alfonso Ortiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0826303870

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New Perspectives on the Pueblos by Alfonso Ortiz Pdf

A dozen essays by anthropologists of various specialties on the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico in the fields of ecology, prehistory, ethnohistory, linguistics, social organization, ritual and world view, religion, mythology, music, and demography -- back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : UOM:39015033718571

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Medical Staff Leader by Anonim Pdf

Author : Forrest Wheeler
Publisher : BestSeller Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0975540726

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Using the Power of Humor by Forrest Wheeler Pdf

Using the Power of Humor offers the practical applications of humor in every day life. Forrest Wheeler opens new and exciting ways to empower the reader by connecting humor to: Health ad Healing Education and Learning Increased Productivity

Author : Domenico Arturo Nesci,Nancy McWilliams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9781793644008

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Psychological Care for Cancer Patients by Domenico Arturo Nesci,Nancy McWilliams Pdf

Psychological Care for Cancer Patients: New Perspectives on Training Health Professionals is an innovative work in psychosocial oncology which examines the role of creative expression in the psychological treatment of cancer patients. After having spent five decades in this field, Domenico Arturo Nesci has become a proponent of treatment that values patients as creatives and valiant fighters rather than objects of an ambivalent compassion. This book analyzes this intersection of psychology, the humanities, medicine, and social work through scholarship conceived to help all people whose lives are crossed by cancer: patients, relatives, caregivers, health professionals, and students.

Author : Tristan Remy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493082070

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Clown Scenes by Tristan Remy Pdf

The intimacy of the one-ring circus produced the classic clown routines that flourished until the mid-twentieth century and then disappeared with the rise of the grand circus. They have been lost until now. By seeking out the little band of surviving clowns who worked in the old tradition and setting down their scenes, Tristan Rémy, the eminent circus historian, has rescued a theatrical treasure. Thanks to Rémy's persistence, the forty-eight scenes presented here contain not only the spoken words but the manner of line delivery and the physical turns. So they remain superbly suitable for performance. Most of them are written for just three actors—the white-faced clown, August the stooge, and the supercilious ringmaster. Sets are unnecessary. And their combination of the verbal with the physical has timeless appeal. Bernard Sahlins's translation is masterfully attuned to present-day audiences. In his foreword, Mr. Sahlins notes that these scenes have been continually remounted in Europe, attesting to their fundamental vitality and universality. “Clearly there is a debt, witting and unwitting, owed to the clown of the ring by the great comedians of our century. With this book these scenes and the clowns who invented and played them now take their honored place in our theatrical legacy.”

Author : Deborah Fish Ragin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317350620

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Health Psychology, 2nd Edition by Deborah Fish Ragin Pdf

A truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of health, Health Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Approach uses the social ecological perspective to explore the impact of five systems on individual health outcomes: individual, culture/family, social/physical environment, health systems and health policy. In order to provide readers with an understanding of how health affects the individual on a mental and emotional level, the author has taken an interdisciplinary approach, considering the roles of anthropology, biology, economics, environmental studies, medicine, public health, and sociology.