Open AccessFamily Life Theatre and youth health services.
Author(s) -
Maria C. Boria,
Elaine Welch,
Andréa Maria Duarte Vargas
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.71.2.150
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , institution , public health , improvisation , health education , sociology , public relations , psychology , medicine , medical education , political science , nursing , social science , art , visual arts
The Family Life Theatre, integrated into the Youth Health Services of a medical institution in a large urban community, has achieved rather unusual success. After seven years of experience marked by a constant quest for improvements, what was started in 1973 as a very modest health education program, through the medium of improvisational theatre, has now become a pilot project, duplicated by many groups and institutions throughout the country. The experiences of the Family Life Theatre, and its multiple ramifications leading to a comprehensive approach to the adolescent health problems, are presented and analyzed in a public health perspective.