ABSTRACT
Relationship-based social work practice has become a popular term for a method in both social work and nursing of working with people which is based in the application of psychosocial ideas to practice. This chapter focusses on the psychosocial aspects of humour in social work and argues that as humour can convey humanity, is grounded in our earliest attachments and in the management of emotions, humour is part of relationship-based social work practice.
