“Humor can help transform the serious situations into something silly, which may facilitate self-acceptance.” (Mark Gorkin, 2009). A classic example is the successful French novelist and poet, Anatole France, with his pithy observation staring at his reflection when turning seventy-five years old : "Mirrors just aren't what they used to be." Which it means that he is demonstrating the courage of leaving the past and to accepting a more vulnerable new image of himself, like with warts and wrinkles, flaws and foibles. To begin, hospitalization is known as an adverse event in life, usually causing stress and could be traumatic, especially for children’s. It exists a lot of strategies for the clowns to conduce relaxation to their patients. This
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The dream doctors have become members of the hospital staff, and making company to the children’s through all kinds of procedures. Their principal purpose is of diverting the child’s attention apart from the procedure. The Dream Doctors organization and it’s associated hospitals, have done a confirmation based on research studies demonstrating the clown’s effectiveness in helping the curative process, most popular in women’s fertility clinics. According to Moshe Cohen, “I took a field expedition to various hospitals to go observe the Dream Doctors at work, attending how they operate in that environment, their level of interaction with the patients, and their companionship with the hospital staff. It was awesome, and heart warming to witness the clowning that they are doing.” (Moshe Cohen, 2015) According to the Dream Doctors Convention (in Jerusalem, 2015), there is some evidence-based research that offers a good idea of their work as their effective in reducing pain in children with cerebral palsy undergoing Botulinum Toxin Injections, the effect of clowns on pregnancy rates after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) with a 20% improvement, the decreasing anxiety levels among children in the Hemato-Oncology department of the Soroka Medical Center, and the influence of hospital clowns on blood …show more content…
One is called “The Jovia Foundation”, that is a non-profit organization that is make up by therapeutic clowns programs in hospitals in Montreal and Quebec city. As a non-profit, the foundation is very vulnerable to the state of the economy, relying on donations to cover the cost of their services. According to the co- founder of the Jovia Foundation Melissa Holland, “The clown is a vulnerable figure who serves as a reflection of our humanity”. She means that they clowns involved in this project only do this activities to not take theirselves too seriously and to enjoy a moment of lightness and laughter. Another is the “Gesundheit! Institute” that is a project to re-invent the hospital. This project starts with Patch Adam’s ideas titled ‘Positive Thinking’, a plan that was about providing health care in the best interests of patient and staff alike, that later, develop into an organization directing all the problems related in spite of giving medical assistance to whom need it, offering them the stay in a clinic free and based on the amusement and the friendship of rural West Virginia. “The Gesundheit hospital would be a health care community based on friendship and mutual interdependence, with a staff that lives in the facility with their families in a collective atmosphere of happiness, silliness, love,
The dream doctors have become members of the hospital staff, and making company to the children’s through all kinds of procedures. Their principal purpose is of diverting the child’s attention apart from the procedure. The Dream Doctors organization and it’s associated hospitals, have done a confirmation based on research studies demonstrating the clown’s effectiveness in helping the curative process, most popular in women’s fertility clinics. According to Moshe Cohen, “I took a field expedition to various hospitals to go observe the Dream Doctors at work, attending how they operate in that environment, their level of interaction with the patients, and their companionship with the hospital staff. It was awesome, and heart warming to witness the clowning that they are doing.” (Moshe Cohen, 2015) According to the Dream Doctors Convention (in Jerusalem, 2015), there is some evidence-based research that offers a good idea of their work as their effective in reducing pain in children with cerebral palsy undergoing Botulinum Toxin Injections, the effect of clowns on pregnancy rates after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) with a 20% improvement, the decreasing anxiety levels among children in the Hemato-Oncology department of the Soroka Medical Center, and the influence of hospital clowns on blood …show more content…
One is called “The Jovia Foundation”, that is a non-profit organization that is make up by therapeutic clowns programs in hospitals in Montreal and Quebec city. As a non-profit, the foundation is very vulnerable to the state of the economy, relying on donations to cover the cost of their services. According to the co- founder of the Jovia Foundation Melissa Holland, “The clown is a vulnerable figure who serves as a reflection of our humanity”. She means that they clowns involved in this project only do this activities to not take theirselves too seriously and to enjoy a moment of lightness and laughter. Another is the “Gesundheit! Institute” that is a project to re-invent the hospital. This project starts with Patch Adam’s ideas titled ‘Positive Thinking’, a plan that was about providing health care in the best interests of patient and staff alike, that later, develop into an organization directing all the problems related in spite of giving medical assistance to whom need it, offering them the stay in a clinic free and based on the amusement and the friendship of rural West Virginia. “The Gesundheit hospital would be a health care community based on friendship and mutual interdependence, with a staff that lives in the facility with their families in a collective atmosphere of happiness, silliness, love,