{"content":[{"text":"Published ANZPA Journal No 14, 2005","bbox":{"left":0.32902,"top":0.045892,"width":0.3126270000000001,"height":0.016779000000000002}},{"text":"Sociodrama with Juvenile Offenders","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.083087,"width":0.403329,"height":0.022148}},{"text":"Rollo Browne is an organisational consultant based in Sydney. He has worked with boys and \n masculinity issues for a number of years.","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.123165,"width":0.730392,"height":0.034355}},{"text":"This article focuses on the lead up to, and the enactment of, a sociodrama with juvenile offenders who \n have committed serious crimes. It highlights the need for flexibility in managing the group warm up, \n finding the appropriate structure and recognizing the underlying theme of the group. One clear \n conclusion is that keeping the sociodramatic question in mind is an effective way of grounding the \n learning for the participants.","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.175589,"width":0.8010390000000001,"height":0.086476}},{"text":"They Won’t Work On Their Personal Situations \n In a secure room in a juvenile detention centre, five boys, aged between 12 and 16, and four adults - \n the unit psychologist, two youth workers and me as visiting director - are working in twos and threes. \n The large number of adults present is to prevent possible violence. There are a large number of adults \n present to address potential violence. This is the second of six voluntary 60 – 75 minute sessions. There \n is nothing breakable in the room, no sharp edges and the chairs are plastic. The walls are a grubby \n pastel green. There is nothing to tear, no posters, no carpet. Nothing comfortable. Nothing homely. \n There is a television set high in a corner. All doors, windows and peepholes are security locked at all \n times. All the adults, except me, have keys. The single external window overlooks some grass and a \n brick wall. Despite this, the mood is purposeful.","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.280134,"width":0.813095,"height":0.173446}},{"text":"Psychodrama is one of a sequence of alternate therapies being trialed to see what might prove effective. \n I have been asked to work with the boys on the understanding that they are not able or not prepared to \n discuss their internal worlds. The preliminary briefing with the psychologist clearly indicated that the \n boys would get aggressive or just walk out if expected to enact their personal situations. I learn that \n their self-appointed leader and spokesperson is Nod, that all the boys are afraid of Steve and that they \n all aspire to be successful ‘crims’. These boys are all from the unit for the emotionally disturbed. They \n have done some awful things that I am not told about as it is not directly relevant to the program.","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.47165,"width":0.81298,"height":0.12132399999999999}},{"text":"“Russell would do it” \n The previous program used drama therapy where the underlying purpose was to expand the boys’ \n social empathy to include those who are were affected by their crimes. The centerpiece of the work was \n the scripting and acting out of a courtroom drama in costume. In a stroke of brilliance the drama \n therapist had invited the boys to get involved because they would learn how to act. The boys were well \n aware that some crims had achieved notoriety and a career in film. In their sessions the boys accepted \n participating in warm ups when told that “It’s exactly what Russell Crowe would do before acting in a \n scene.”","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.611044,"width":0.813493,"height":0.1388999999999999}},{"text":"Taking this warm up into account, I have thought carefully about how to present myself and the \n purpose of the sessions to the boys.","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.768013,"width":0.750978,"height":0.03405200000000008}},{"text":"Session 1 \n For the first session I set up a circle of chairs. The boys file in, alert, curious, with some displaying \n defensive bravado. They are checking out the newcomer. I introduce myself and make a brief statement \n about our work, comparing it to playing the game of life. I say, “I am the head coach in the game of \n life and I do this all the time for a living. You do not play the game very well or you wouldn’t be here. \n As well, there is the game of surviving in jail because that is also your life now”.","bbox":{"left":0.092549,"top":0.820398,"width":0.812957,"height":0.10651500000000003}},{"text":"Published ANZPA Journal No 14, 2005","bbox":{"left":0.32902,"top":0.937407,"width":0.3126270000000001,"height":0.01677899999999999}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.897647,"top":0.935589,"width":0.009804000000000035,"height":0.01677899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}