Attention, Affect and Action: A Theradrama Guide to Social Games With Special Populations

By Stephen Douglas Breithaupt

A dynamic new system for engaging special populations in relevant social skills.Developing Social Games for Special Needs & Other Populations: Attention, Affect, Action. Social games are popular ways to teach social skills and conflict resolution in therapy. For clients with special needs, they can be particularly effective. This guide will illustrate a variety of social games and inspire participants to use them to increase their knowledge about their clients, develop their own customized activities, and to engage their clients in virtually any clinical setting. To that end, types of developmental games are separated into three sections: Attention highlights games that grab the participants' initial attention. They are oriented toward basic social behaviors, such as eye contact and interpersonal communication. Affect challenges game participants to recognize and respond to emotions, helping to clarify certain emotions that might be unexpected and perhaps even unwanted. Action helps participants to demonstrate what was practiced in the previous two game types, while giving game participants a framework for improvising social scenes and practicing acceptable social behaviors. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to experience social games in all three areas as well as practice developing their own games for use with their clients. This is not only an effective way of working with developmentally delayed clients, but with clients of all populations who wish to learn how to connect more effectively with the world around them. This session is appropriate for educators as well as mental health professionals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1792612478
• ISBN13: 9781792612473
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"