DRAMA WITH SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Gave workshops: use of the Fictional Family
technique, 1997-2005
Brock University, Director of
Performance of Scenarios, and Animator of Interactive training workshop with
faculty and staff on sexual harassment, harassment, and discrimination, 1996
McGill University Drama Specialist, Graduate Department of Social
Work, 1992.
Gave workshops: Use of the Fictional Family
technique with family therapy trainees
Concordia University Faculty Lecturer, 1986-88
Designed new course and Taught: Drama with Special Populations, 1986-88
Worked with:
Montreal Association for the Blind -
visually-impaired and multi- handicapped children
Constance Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre,
Day Centre - disabled adults
MacKay Centre - hearing-impaired and
wheelchair children
St Kevin School - hyperactive and
Down-syndrome children
Creative Social Centre, Guest Director, Drama
Workshop, with 60 plus group, 1986
Concordia University, Co-director,
with Barbara MacKay - Drama, Theatre and Video (Drama Therapy), with sexually
abused teenage girls in cooperation with Concordia University, Ville Marie
Social Services, and Youth Horizons, 1985.
Holy Names School, Montreal Catholic School Commission, Consultant
Drama Sessions
with 17 ninth grade girls with learning disabilities - evaluated program and
wrote paper, 1972.
PUBLICATIONS
Gold, Muriel. The Fictional Family and
Family Therapy: Dramatic Techniques with Family Therapy Trainees. In
MacDougall, Jill and Stanley Yoder, Contaminating Theatre Northwestern
University Press, 1998.
Gold, Muriel. Therapy Through Drama. The
Fictional Family. Springfield, Ill. Charles C. Thomas, 2000.
MacKay, Barbara, Muriel Gold and Erica Gold. A
Pilot Study in Drama Therapy with Adolescent Girls who have been Sexually
Abused. THE ARTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY. Vol. 14, 77-84. New York. Pergamon
Press, November 1987.