Connecting humor, health, and masculinities at prostate cancer support groups

Abstract

The importance of group leadership was central to preserving the benefits of humor, and the specificities of how humor is used at PCSGs may provide direction for clinical practice and the design of future community-based men's health promotion programs.

Effect of Positive Emotions on Health: Hope and Humor

“…Sometimes, however, well-intended humor triggered discomfort in some attendees. 16 Bernie Siegel, M.D., a retired clinical professor of general and pediatric surgery at Yale University who now lives in a New Haven, Connecticut, suburb, has long advocated an important role for positive emotions for patients with cancer in books he wrote for patients in a program he founded, Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECaP) program, currently based at the Meadville Medical Center in Pennsylvania. 17…”

Fatherhood intervention development in collaboration with African American non‐resident fathers

“…Based upon our prior research conducting preventive parent training with families in low‐income urban communities, we proposed to the Council a video‐based group discussion format for the intervention. This format involves short‐videotaped scenes illustrating specific content areas of the program to highlight program principles and to facilitate discussions among program participants (Gross et al, 2003; Gross et al, 2007; Oliffe, Ogrodniczuk, Bottorff, Hislop, & Halpin, 2009; Webster‐Stratton, 1998). Council members were shown examples of video scenes used in a program developed by Gross et al (2007).…”

Psychosocial Oncology Supports for Men

“…Broom, 2005;Klemm et al, 2003). Similarly, research attuned to the challenges men can experience in discussing cancerrelated emotions (Arrington, 2010;Roesch et al, 2005) has highlighted the importance of carefully considering the language used to promote supports and the possibility of staged approaches to engagement (Krizek et al, 1999) as well as the power of humor as a lever enabling men to engage the potential discomfort of acknowledging vulnerability and working through cancer-related distress (Oliffe, Ogrodniczuk, et al, 2009).…”