questions and testing--response1

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Bud and all, 
   There are many implications to your most recent comments (below), but my first association was to this comment: "I am sure that you and all TEPs are able to answer them (i.e., my questions in blue below) easily as should be the case:

       My first response isn't directly to you, Bud, but just a general thought: I haven't commented this for maybe a year or so. Several times in the last ten years I've proposed some common effort to find a consensus as to definitions, especially. I've had outsiders in other fields comment that one step towards professionalization in a field is the development of such a consensus. For example, I could answer the questions you pose, but, you know, I'm not at all sure that others would agree with those answers!  (I'm referring to an imagined panel of ten recognized certified trainers (TEPs). And what if four of those were international trainers?) 
        So I'm just putting in again to ASGPP, FEPTO, ANZPA, BPA, and other affiliated readers that this might make a nice collaborative project. 

    Definitions are problematic. I'm not sure that adherence to a dogmatic formula should be a criterion for expertise. This becomes even more true in realms of psychology and culture, because contexts invite a broadening and flexibility of definition.
            In sociodrama, for example, it seems that some practitioners use certain elements that are beyond the definition in the minds of others--
    e.g.,  playing roles that are fictional, or based on literature (closer to drama therapy)
                  or having partially scripted scenarios... 

            The boundaries of various elements might vary depending on how "purist" the person feels things should be... 

      (I'm not commenting yet on the first part of your recent email because I haven't thought out what I think yet. (;-)  

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: BARNETT WEISS 
  To: ASGPP grouptalknew 
  Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 10:37 PM
  Subject: Testing 1,2,3


  Dear Ann and others:
    (first part of email cut away as irrelevant to this response). . . 

  When I was actively teaching psychodrama and sociometry at the New School in New York City as well as in Junior colleges and Universities elsewhere, the following are some questions that are typical of the ones that I put to my students and perhaps are some that you have and continue to use. They touch on central principals of Moreno's work and are immediately applicable giving direction for action while calling for a deeper understanding of the process and the principles that underlie the action: I am sure that you and all TEPs are able to answer them easily as should be the case. 

  How do you use the information you obtain from a client's sociogram to help them develop a psychodrama?

  When you are interviewing a protagonist or having him or her do a soliloquy, how do you go about selecting the appropriate situation to enact?

  When acting as a double, when is it appropriate to begin voicing some of the deeper unexpressed feelings you sense within the protagonist?

  Define the term "spontaneity" according to Moreno, and explain how you would use the concept in a psychodrama.

  Define the term "cultural conserve" and explain how you would apply it to the psychodramatic process. 



  Best from Bud Weiss
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