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Article: Using theater improvisation to assess interpersonal functioning.
- Article from:
- International Journal of Action Methods: Psychodrama, Skill Training, and Role Playing
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
- Author:
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ABSTRACT. Theater improvisation games and exercises, which employ role-playing methods, are structured tasks useful for the assessment, training, and remediation of interpersonal skills. Using case material, the author demonstrates how those tasks reveal distinct deficiencies or imbalances that are manifest in clients' psychosocial functioning and describes 5 theatrical functions necessary for adequate psychosocial functioning as part of a dramaturgic model.
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ATTEMPTS TO ASSESS THE ADEQUACY of clients' psychosocial functioning by psychometric testing omit much of the realistic, global, and immediate context of social behavior. According to ...