BRIEF REPORT - Using Sociometry and Role Play to Prepare Housewives to Re-enter the Work Force

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  • MARIE-THERESE BILANIUK Author

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Work Force

Abstract

In a program for homemakers who have been out of the work force for 3 years or more, the participants are being trained to do accounting on computers in an 18-week full-time course. The members vary widely in age, education, social and ethnic background, and work experience. As the life-skills coach for the group, I have based my approach on the training model of the Social/Life-Skills Movement (Gazda, 1985) and the earlier suggestions of Carkhuff (1969a, 1969b), which were taken up in Canada by Saskatchewan NewStart, Inc., and by the YWCA of Metropolitan Toronto.

References

Carkhuff, R. R. (1969a). Helping and human relations: Selection and training (Vol. 1). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Carkhuff, R. R. (1969b). Helping and human relations: Research and practice. (Vol. 2). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Gazda, G. M., & Brooks, D. K., Jr. (1985). The development of the social/lifeskills training movement. Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry, 38(1), 1-10.

Hale, A. E. (1985). Conducting clinical sociometric explorations (pp. 31-89). Roanoke, VA: Royal Publishing.

Milroy, E. (1982). Role play. A practical guide (pp. 134-140). Great Britain: Aberdeen University Press.

Published

2025-03-14

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 2 (1988): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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