Podcast 88 Humor in the Stress

Finding My Way: A Memoir by Jerry Morton

Podcast 88, "Humor in the Stress," relates the high degree of stress the providers of the psychological services encountered due to the lack of understanding of the new 1973 special education law. This lack of preparedness to implement the law produced a great deal of misunderstanding and fear in the minds of many educators. The educational cooperative's service providers were the change agents for the school systems. The role of a change agent is a stressful one. We developed strategies to reduce that stress.