关键词: 教育剧场, 青少年社会工作, 共情, 共情干预

Abstract: Taking the Crime Prevention Theater as the case study subject, this paper uses different methods, such as participant observation and in-depth interview, to discuss the characteristics of this new approach of social work intervention, especially that of the empathy intervention. This paper finds that Crime Prevention Theater can connect with teenagers’ life and create empathy experience, thus it can realize the cycle of empowering learning and thinking and gain higher acceptance from teenagers. The basis of empathy intervention is to stimulate the empathy experience of teenagers, while the core is to create the link, space and form of dialogue, where the “empathy experience” can be transferred to expressible words or actions and emotions turn into rational thinking. What’s more, return visit and case tracking are to evaluate the effectiveness of Crime Prevention Theater. The theater also helps social workers develop and train their empathy skills, strengthen their understanding of teenagers’ plight so that they can better learn the dynamic state of teenagers in real time during theater interaction and then improve participation, critical thinking and empowerment of teenagers.

Key words: theater in education, youth social work, empathy, empathy intervention