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FILM AND EDUCATION
of services from film producers to groups interested in making films or slides concerning topics of wide acceptance and general interest.
Guidance Films in Personal and Social Problems
Group counselling as an effective method in guidance is not limited to the area of vocational problems alone. Group therapy, involving the mechanisms of identification and projection with reference to films, is equally suitable to the area of more personal and social problems. Here, too, as in vocational guidance, there are needs which are common among students in college and high school, problems of characteristically similar aspects, which makes them conducive to analysis and treatment in group discussions.
When over 300 students in the Basic College of Michigan State College were asked to list specific areas in which they felt a need for guidance, non-vocational areas were mentioned with high frequency. The survey revealed a need among college freshmen and sophomores for guidance in the areas of acquiring better study habits, suggestions for making friends, alleviation of inferiority, insecurity, or self-consciousness, and learning about accepted procedures of social convention.
As mentioned previously, film information published by film producers and information from such indexes as the Educational Film Guide can be used with considerable value to counsellors and teachers in directing them to films which are suitable for instructional purposes along the line of personal and social problems. Although the list of films is not as extensive in this area as it is in vocational guidance, it is sufficiently extensive to make analysis worthwhile.
Films dealing with the topic of personal maladjustment are unique in educational value for several reasons. They can present a whole problem situation in an organized, concise, and interesting manner, which, when presented to a large group or class, can be analyzed and discussed more effectively than by
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