ACTION GROUP TRAINING TECHNIQUES

Abstract

Time limitations preclude the full development of the topic I wish to discuss. Thus the full weight of the argument cannot be heard, but there is ample time to indicate the direction being suggested, which is that the use of action or psychodrama techniques in psychotherapeutic training is both valuable and efficient.

In the great majority of training programs across the country in psychology, psychiatry, and other related fields, general concerns about training interns, or residents, in psychotherapy are usually characterized by caution, a need to project both the novice and the patient. This creates a slowly developed realm of experience from which the trainee may draw, and incidently provides a series of new experiences which arouse anxiety for the novice.