ABSTRACT
This handbook offers a compilation of background information, techniques and scenarios based on the Acting Out programme that offers theatre skills/counselling for groups of adolescents, free of charge. AO teens become performers, creating issues-oriented, audience-interactive, improvizational scenes with a variety of audiences.; Written for leaders who are familiar with improvizational theatre and working with groups, Part 1 discusses the importance of leader training, experience and intention. Psychodrama, sociodrama and theatre scenework are explained in some detail, with references offered for those who wish to learn more about these areas before proceeding. Information about group selection criteria, procedures and techniques for using the scenarios complete this section.; Part Two offers a set of eight topics each with its own list of scenarios. Each scenario begins with information about characters, settings and situations, and offerrs acting notes as well as age- appropriaeteness. A list of resources appears at the beginning of each thematic set of scenarios.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part A|30 pages
Basic Information
chapter Chapter 1|5 pages
Improvisation and Acting Out
chapter Chapter 2|2 pages
Limitations and Cautions
chapter Chapter 3|3 pages
Leader and Participant Information
chapter Chapter 4|16 pages
How to Use this Workbook
part B|105 pages
Issue-Oriented Scenarios
chapter Chapter 5|13 pages
Drugs/Alcohol
chapter Chapter 6|13 pages
HIV and Other STDs
chapter Chapter 7|12 pages
Family Problems and Situations
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
School Problems and Situations
chapter Chapter 9|12 pages
Community Problems and Situations
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
Death/Suicide
chapter Chapter 11|14 pages
Violence/Abuse
chapter Chapter 12|13 pages
Sexuality/Pregnancy/Relationships
part C|3 pages
General References and Resources