Rebels with a Cause is a comprehensive guide to working with adolescents using action techniques and drama therapy.Drawing on years of experience working with adolescents and of training practitioners in the field, Cossa provides a tried-and-tested model for working with adolescents in groups. Utilizing techniques found in psychodrama, sociodrama, drama therapy and sociometry, Cossa offers step-by-step practical guidelines on running a group development program and summarizes the s...

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 inte...

At a time when expectations and assumptions about the delivery of services to children and adolescents are being reconfigured - for example, around the rights of children and adolescents as young citizens - adults are seeking to ensure that they deliver services in creative and empowering ways, ensuring that the opinions of young people are actively solicited and encouraged. Action methods - communication methods using the body as well as speech - provide non-threatening ways of communicat...

C’è una sola mente comune a tutti gli uomini individui.Ciascun uomo è adito ad essa ed a tutto ciò che ad essa appartiene.Colui, che una volta è ammesso al diritto della ragione, diviene completamente libero; ciò che Platone ha pensato, egli può pensare, ciò che un santo ha sentito, egli può sentire, ciò che in ogni tempo a ciascun uomo è accaduto, egli può comprendere. Chi possiede questa universale mente partecipa di tutto ciò che è o può essere fatto, poichè questa è l’uni...