title: Family Life Theatre and youth health services.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011577:Psychodrama; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods