ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the construction of a semi-structured protocol of the action sociogram for 6-to 12-year-old children. The first section outlines the basic characteristics of a development-oriented theory, the Phenomenological-Dialectic Personality model (Phe-Di PModel). The second section demonstrates how – within this theoretical framework – the psychodramatic social atom can be applied to school-aged children. The social atom enables the children to devise a spatial scene in which they use puppets to represent themselves in relation to significant others. This action method makes it possible to externalize the child’s multiple self-constructions and the internal self-dialogues. Moreover, we think that the action sociogram can be understood as an intense situational-affective experience of dialectic oppositions, in which emotions, actions, cognitions, language and effective learning can be integrated.
