PSYCHODRAMA IN THE TREATMENT OF DISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS

Abstract

The concept Discipline suggests, at once, an effort to inhibit infringement of rules by the imposition of specific punishments that are "designed" to make the particular infringements unpalatable. A particular punishment is meted out for a particular infringement because it is so related to the infringement that it conditions the subject against repeating the infringement. To be sure this type of simple conditioning works, when the punishment is a direct outcome of the infringement, such as when the child touches a hot stove, burns his finger and from there on, avoids touching the hot stove, in fact he may transfer this learning to all hot objects. Such simple situations are common to infancy and childhood learning as all parents would testify.