Used a role playing technique to examine the influence of social comparison on help seeking attitudes in 80 students. Results indicated that subjects who received serious social comparison information reported the highest depression scores and were more willing to seek counseling help. (JAC)

Investigates the developmental sequence of learning to transform objects into agents and recipients of action in early symbolic play. Each of 48 children (from 14 to 25 months old) demonstrated initiative pretending after an adult modeled agent and recipient substitutions in pretending to talk on the telephone. (Author/CB)

Parent training sessions using videotape demonstration and role playing were effective in teaching six mothers to encourage independent problem solving of household tasks by their language delayed preschoolers. Interaction during problem solving appeared to be more verbal after training. (CL)

Eight dyads of misarticulating school children (mean age = 7:9 years) enrolled in clinical programs were videotaped while they role-played remedial articulation lessons. Hierarchical relationships among the selected levels of analysis suggested the use of a cohesive register appropriate for clinical teaching. Children's sociolinguistic…

Students involved in acting out a role may find it hard to remember what their classmates said; student observers may focus on one roleplayer and not the others. This causes problems in the discussion stage of the roleplay. Solution: videotape the roleplaying situation. An example is provided. (RM)

An adult chronic schizophrenic, residual type, with an additional diagnosis of mild-moderate retardation, received social skills training (SST). Videotaped role-play assessments showed change occurred following SST, while a multiple-baseline design demonstrated functional control over the behaviors. (Author/CL)

From the director's point of view, a "memorable monologue" is one in which the actor exhibits imagination and invention in role-playing. Memorable audition monologues require a measured degree of "risk taking" and uninhibited abandon--the first task is to select monologues that suit the type of script and the role being cast.…

Describes in detail communication games used with student teachers to make them more able and sensitive in classroom settings. (JA)

A counselor relates some of his first experiences and feelings as a counselor. The use of a few specific skills is briefly discussed. (RP)

To examine the agreement of linguists and non-linguists concerning the acceptability of surface structure, 48 under-graduates classified each of 66 sentences as acceptable or unacceptable while playing different roles. High agreement was confirmed. (Author/KM)

Article describes the benefits of minidrama as an ancillary vehicle and compares it with its parent, the psychodrama. (Editor)

Simulation games are currently being used to teach high school students how to forecast the weather. The students are cast in the roles of forecasters given meteorological information to predict the weather and, in addition, how it will affect the lifestyles of a particular area. (DS)

Results suggest that when teaching a basic interview skill to lay counselors, greater gains may be achieved by using a videotaped immediate-reinforcement exercise rather than the traditional autiotaped delayed-reinforcement exercise. Subjects were not typical counselors in training, which cautions application of findings to counselor education in…

This simple and compact teaching technique is briefly described, as are its procedures, setting and teacher materials. The basic goals and purposes are analyzed favorably in reports from users. (KM)