title: Evaluating the systematic use of humor in psychotherapy with adolescents.
abstract: Adolescents often experience psychological difficulties associated with the demands and changes of puberty. Humor can be an effective response to express troublesome emotions associated with aggression. Self-descriptions of an adolescent client demonstrate the value of a controlled use of humor in individual psychotherapy for certain persons in this developmental age period.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic