Headspace theater: An innovative method for experiential learning of psychiatric symptomatology using modified role-playing and improvisational theater techniques

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 380-387

  Ballon, Bruce C ^a,c   Silver, Ivan ^a   Fidler, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EGO; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ROLE PLAYING; TEACHING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; CURRICULUM; DRAMA; EMPATHY; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PSYCHIATRY; REALITY TESTING; ROLE PLAYING; SICK ROLE;

EID: 38449084876     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.31.5.380     Document Type: Review

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