{"id":4139,"date":"2020-11-11T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:33:23","slug":"dr-dieter-declercq-discusses-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/11\/11\/dr-dieter-declercq-discusses-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Dieter Declercq discusses mental health and stand-up comedy in Reader&#8217;s Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School of Arts Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2335\/declercq-dieter\">Dr Dieter Declercq<\/a>, shares his thoughts on the relationship between mental health and stand-up comedy in a recent article published in Reader&#8217;s Digest, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readersdigest.co.uk\/inspire\/humour\/can-stand-up-comedy-help-mental-health\">Can stand-up comedy help mental health?<\/a>.<\/em> Dr Declercq was interviewed by the author, Dave Chawner, as part of the article in which he discusses his own experiences with mental health, and experience as a stand-up comedian. Dr Declercq&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.emeraldinsight.com\/page\/detail\/Satire-Comedy-and-Mental-Health\/?K=9781839096679\">Satire, Comedy and Mental Health<\/a>, looks at how comedy can be used as a mental health resource, and adds, &#8216;Humour can shift our perspective on a difficult situation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Arts Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Dr Dieter Declercq, shares his thoughts on the relationship between mental health and stand-up comedy in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/11\/11\/dr-dieter-declercq-discusses-mental-health\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":4141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,168423,124,9111],"tags":[223357,142628,695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}