Includes approaches to pantomime, improvisation, expanding a character, role playing, reader's theater, live stage, and script writing. (DD)

Compares client (participant) ratings of counselor effectiveness with tape rated judgments that used a crisis counseling analogue situation and employed previously unused control procedures and demonstrates two methodologies for estimating the reliability or consistency of client ratings of counselor characteristics. This research was part of a…

Assertiveness Training for Job-Seeking Skills includes skill development in initiating the job search; arranging actual interviews; preparing a resume; articulating strengths, weaknesses, and career objectives; responding assertively in interviews; asking appropriate questions; accepting or rejecting job offers; confronting discrimination;…

The author discusses moral behavior and affect, and how they may influence reasoning processes when the individual is no longer dealing with hypothetical issues. (MJB)

Describes inception and evolution of a 14-month project providing group counseling to offenders placed on probation after conviction for driving while intoxicated (DWI). Describes modifications of group counseling techniques, necessitated by the involuntary nature of members' participation. Presents generalizations concerning social psychological…

Emphasizes the effectiveness of teaching journalism skills through hypothetical role plays. Outlines the Environmental Risk Reporting Project's use of hypotheticals to teach coverage of environmental emergencies, and notes that videotapes of the presentation are also useful teaching aids. (MM)

Explains how media law and ethics courses can generate student involvement through the use of fictitious congressional representatives and hearings. (MM)

Dungeons & Dragons, game involving extensive fantasy role-playing, has been blamed for suicides and homicides. To examine emotional stability of players, Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) was administered to 68 adolescent and adult game players. Results showed no significant correlation between years of playing the game…

Discusses how role-taking can provide a viewpoint for a writer and a real audience for children's writing. Argues that role-taking offers a more accessible route to certain kinds of language uses, particularly impersonal genres and written standard forms that are educationally valued, than direct instruction. (SRT)

The authors explain how role playing helps home health aides learn to cope with common problems that arise in their work with the homebound elderly and their families. (CT)

A classroom exercise that involves college students in portraying individuals studied in a history of psychology course is described. Working in teams, students develop a presentation allowing figures from different time periods to discuss and debate psychological issues. Students also prepare a bibliography and position summary of the individual…

Features nine ERIC documents on the use of role playing in learning situations. (PD)

Offers evidence that demand characteristics referring to changes in clients' self-concepts are the common factors in psychotherapies. Unassertive subjects (N=87) were assigned to four types of imaginary role playing. Only the demand characteristics condition increased significantly in assertiveness and self-esteem and decreased significantly in…

Presents six-part methodology for teaching basic concepts of family systems to non-family therapists and describes application of methodology to teach primary care physicians. Explains use of simulated encounters in which a physically symptomatic adolescent is interviewed alone, then with his mother, then with his whole family. (Author/NRB)

Describes the Martin Marietta Corporation's modular training program that teaches managers to conduct performance appraisals. The article also explains the purposes of performance appraisals, outlines the components of a performance system, reviews the performance appraisal process, and discusses the use of role-playing. (CT)