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AATH - 2009 Annual Conference
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Please rate the following:
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Content matched stated objectives.
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Quality of facilities.

How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?
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Objective 1: Discuss current research and best practices in humor and laughter.
The above objective will increase my professional competence.
The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.
The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.
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Objective 2: Expand the humor and laughter community.
The above objective will increase my professional competence.
The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.
The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.
List strategies for incorporating humor into your presentations and trainings.
Describe how you would weave stories and jokes into your material to make presentations more interactive.
Describe the beginning interest in humor as a therapeutic modality for healing.
Define different research designs and how some designs produce more valid and reliable results within the scientific method.
Discuss at least five different research studies that provide evidence that can guide our nursing practice.
Facilitate all groups and ages in order to achieve team cohesiveness, openess and trust.
Fashion problem solving activities as a joyful path to new team options via therapeutic humor games.
Describe how you would address team problems, pain, challenges and corrections.
Discuss where humor stems from in our lives.
Describe how to give it the humor twist even if you aren't funny.
Explain the nature of play as activity pursued for pleasure which overrides ordinary rules of communication and action.
Explain how the playfulness of humor fosters mental flexibility.
Describe how the playfulness of humor serves as a social lubricant.

Discuss what humor is for Chinese people.

Explore the cultural differences in humor.

List the advantages of using humor in therapy.

List and discuss the risks of using humor in therapy.

Apply humor techniques as new skills in their work with patients in hospital and in private settings.

Explain how humor helps decrease patients' anxieties and fears.

Describe how humor eases stress and tension for physicians and other health professionals.

Apply humor techniques as new skills in their work with patients in hospital and in private settings.

Explain how humor and creativity influence each other with examples.

Describe the role of humor in the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process including examples of applications.

Demonstrate exercises and strategies where humor and creativity can be applied to solve actual problems they may experience in work or personal environments.

Identify the evidence supporting a pedagogy of engagement and the humor techniques employed in the training or classroom experience.

Demonstrate practical humor techniques applied to participant-focused training or classroom experiences.

Revise conventional training or classroom experiences into ones with higher participant/learner involvement that lead to greater application with and comprehension of the course content.

Define and distinguish the differences between pesimism, idealistic optimism and productive optimism.

Demonstrate the "think-feel" relation.

List some of the main differences between the pesimistic and optimistic explanatory styles.
Discuss the history of the therapeutic laughter movement.
Demonstrate the ability to laugh therapeutically on demand, without the need for jokes or comedic situations.
Identify two versions of free-form Laughter (Laughter Meditation) and add to their skill set the ability to share this with others.
List 3 factors that influence the credibility of scientific reports.
Describe the early history of 'humor science' fostered by Norman Cousins and others.
Discuss advances in technology used in humor research.
Describe how doing stand-up comedy builds self-esteem.
Discuss how stand-up comedy is an effective form of therapy.
Discuss how marginalized populations use humor to regain social status and transform painful incidents into strengths.
Discuss how perseverance is essential to achieve success.
List perfect techniques to evoke laughter.
Describe the advantages of a strong work ethic.
Discuss emotions and moods associated with addiction and weight issues.
Identify specific ways to use laughter and humor with addictions and weight loss.
Identify how laughter and humor can be used as complementary/alternative healing methods.
Employ steps for incorporating and communication "joy" in the institutional mission/vision.
Identify strategies for applying therapeutic humor in institutional programs.
Identify leadership skills that employ humor to facilitate learning, productivity and community-building.
Outline the developmental steps taken in the creation of K&K.
Relate humor's role in the process that led to the initial discovery of this comedy duo.
Express situations in which the participant might learn from the story of K&K.
Explain how therapeutic laughter may be used to assist with the grieving process.
Recognize the role of humor as a coping mechanism as well as its unhealthy applications.
Develop specific techniques to help yourself and your clients.
Describe how to give funnier, more entertaining, humor presentations.
Explain how a speech can go from good to great by following a few simple strategies.
Describe how to use humor to decrease prejudice.
Discuss using humor to improve communication.
Discuss the concept of Humor Spirit Theory.
Compare the differences between a performing clown (circus, parade, birthday party) with that of a therapeutic clown: one who visits hospitals, nursing homes and similar settings to contribute to the well-being of the patient.
Explain appropriate methods of approaching others with their clowning intentions.
Discuss the benefits (for the staff and residents) of bringing therapeutic clowning into an assisted living center.
Lay the foundation for audience support and involvement.
Explain how to capitalize on a blunder... and how to react when others make a mistake!
Utilize presentation aids (or props).
List some humour techniques that can be used to reduce a client's anxiety.
Describe the developement of a humour initiative in a community.
List some the important tasks associated with building and sustaining a humour conference.
Explain the effects of aging on mental functions.
Discuss the treatments available from recent research in Neuroscience.

Identify several methods to enhance mental functions in the elderly.

Turn negative situations into positive.
Reconnect to the power of words.
Objective 3: Create extensive networking opportunities.
The above objective will increase my professional competence.
The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.
The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.
Objective 4: Develop a sense of community among people from different areas of the world.
The above objective will increase my professional competence.
The above objective will result in changes to performance in my professional practice.
The above objective will result in improved patient outcomes.
Please answer the following:

Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?
Was the educational content free of commercial bias?
Was the mode of education effective to learning?
If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?
If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.
Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room while you attended this educational activity?
If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please explain.
What did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

My professional competence would be improved if I had training on:

My professional performance would be improved if I had training on:

My patient outcomes would be improved if I had training on:

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient outcomes?

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