Abstract

SANCHEZ NARANJO, Julio César. Health care humanization, art and humor therapy. Revista médica Risaralda [online]. 2013, vol.19, n.2, pp.154-157. ISSN 0122-0667.

Health services require real actions to reach its effective humanization, given that it remains in speeches and documents without having a clear impact on patients. There are multiple cases of people who have been ill-treated in the different levels of attention in health institutions; this kind of conduct has been incorporated to the usual behavior of health workers and transmitted from teachers to students, creating an image of health personnel too far from caring and warm people, as they should be. Humor therapy is a strategy that has demonstrated its utility in changing paradigms around patient care; it use clown doctors to eliminate communicative and affective barriers and allow the patients to channel through humor their frustration, fear and, in general, stress derived from their diseases and all the factors associated to them, such as hospitalization and diagnostic procedures. This strategy is based on the use of a number of artistic techniques to allow patients to discover expressive alternatives. Because of this, it would be important that health sciences schools understand the necessity of insisting on humanistic education and promoting the artistic sensitization and the knowing of humor therapy basic techniques; in this way health workers could apply these abilities on their daily work with patients in order to reach the respectful and humanized relationship with them as they deserve.

Keywords : humor; patients; humanization; art; education.

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