ROLE-PLAYING AND THE LOWER SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUP
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Role-playing, as it has been first explored and defined by JL. Moreno,' is the flexible acting out ( doing) of various types of problems in a permissive group atmosphere, e.g., a caseworker interviewing a withdrawn client, a person being interviewed by a housing project manager in a low-income housing project. As few as two people can role-play, such as therapist and client in an office; but most role-playing is usually done in groups where two people act out a situation and the group discusses it. Since it is free of the tensions of an actual problem situation, role-playing stimulates the trying out of new alternatives and solutions in life-like situations without the consequences which in reality may be punishing. Role-playing thus increases the participant's role flexibility in an atmosphere where he can safely take a chance with different kinds of behavior.
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