Rape crisis counseling at the New Orleans Y.W.C.A. is provided on a 24 hour basis by a staff of two professionals and 30 volunteers who counsel persons calling the rape crisis line. The caller's confidentiality is strictly maintained. In approximately 36% of the calls which involve crimes not reported to the police, callers are encouraged but…

Dorothy Heathcote's theories and practices relating to the uses of drama in education are presented in detail. The 20 chapters discuss the value of drama, as well as guidelines for organizing and carrying through dramatic activities. Transcripts of Heathcote's teaching and speaking and her writing are used to illustrate the generalizations drawn.…

Defines primal therapy as an approach to growth and change the goal of which is to rediscover the real self, the natural child. Relates this concept to primal theatre where an effort is made to express on stage what rarely occurs in life and what is usually hidden. Basic processes for primal theatre workshops are discussed. For availability see CS…

Notes a tendency among foreign language teachers to attempt to cover too much material too quickly with beginning students. A lesson used with prospective foreign language teachers is described which recalls the difficulties of beginning language students. (RM)

Describes how the students of physics and drama have cooperated in an interdisciplinary project to produce a play, "The Physicists," in a high school. The purpose of the play is to promote artistic and analytical thinking. (GA)

Elementary students learn the art of puppet making, write and produce their own shows using characters they have created, and develop their language arts skills by integrating puppetry into their normal classroom studies. (Author/RK)

It is argued that there is a fundamental difference in the perception of the nature of man on the part of humanistic critics and traditional experimental social psychologists which leads to different assessments of the long-term effects of deception research on subjects. (Author/AM)

Role-play is seen as a help toward meeting everyday life situations, especially occupational ones. Methodological steps toward successful use of role-play are described, and a survey is presented of role-play adapted to various achievement levels. (IFS/WGA)

In role-play, the course leader and the participants perform with different degrees of intensity and for different amounts of time. But there should be a common examination and evaluation of the adequacy of the acquired language material for use in actual life situations. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Within a simulated Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee format, role play is used at Purdue University to illustrate to students the concepts of drug product evaluation and selection as these apply to a hospital formulary system. (Author/LBH)

Videotapes were made of male actors playing the roles of interviewers and job applicants in an interview for the position of research assistant. Behaviors of interviewers can influence perceptions of job applicants as well as perceptions of interviewers. Presented at the Western Psychological Association, Anaheim, California, 1973. (Author)

Assignment of roles in a role play opposite the values held by students induces students to shift their values in the direction of the roles they play and away from the value position they previously held. This technique may be useful in leading students to higher stages of moral development. (For journal availability see SO 504 871.) (AV)

Assumptions were made that children differ in production of imaginative behavior and speech-to-self or private speech. Three-, four-, and five-year-old children were observed with fantasy materials. Verbal fantasy play was assessed in relation to other individual characteristics of children. Results are reported. (JS)

Illustrates how even simple tools and basic ideas do much to embellish the teaching of English as a second language and enhance students' learning as they explore their second language and Canada. (Author/CB)

Describes a study that supports the idea that participation in sociodramatic play builds the language competence of young children and that play is vital part of good preschool programs. (HOD)