The Use of Psychodramatic and Sociometric Techniques in the In-Service Training of Residential Treatment Child Care Staff
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Residential treatment staff function as the temporary family of the child in care. This article describes a sophisticated model of training
child care staff, which fully mobilizes this temporary family to consistent nurturant behavior. Through group action techniques the staff is developed in three crucial areas: Therapeutic skills, self-awareness, and network cohesion. With role play and sociodrama, skills are developed sequentially beginning with survival skills, then theory and finally further therapeutic skills. Self-awareness is developed by the action and differential use of psychodramatic techniques. The network gradually develops through the sharing process and other psychodramatic and sociometric techniques.
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