The Jacobson Joy Inventory: A New Look at Measuring Depression

This guide makes a serious and compelling case for exploring different ways to measure depression and how a sense of humor can and should be used to enhancement treatments of mental illness. This unique guide not only includes invaluable measurement tools for exploring new ways to measure depression, it is seriously funny. The measures in this book have been approved for testing by the Institutional Review Board at Banner University Medical Center in conjunction with the University of Arizona and and are currently under going research testing by the author's independent research team.

David Jacobson, LCSW, CHP is the Director of Behavioral Health Case Management at Banner University Medical Center South as well as a professional speaker. Prior to this he served as Chief of Social Work for the Veterans Administration supervising 18 programs and over 200 clinicians and other staff. Jacobson is a former board member of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH) and graduated in the first class of the AATH Humor Academy as a Certified Humor Professional. He is author of "The 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Humorous People" which discussed using humor to cope with chronic pain, arthritis and other conditions. A second edition to this book is in process.