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2020
A. Geiger,
C. Shpigelman and
R. Feniger-Schaal,
"The socio-emotional world of adolescents with intellectual disability: A drama therapy-based participatory action research",
The Arts in Psychotherapy,
vol. 70,
pp. 1—8,
2020.
Abstract:
This study aims to explore accessible methods and techniques that enable adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) to voice their own opinions and wishes about socio-emotional aspects of their life. Participatory action research (PAR) calls for the inclusion of marginalized groups, such as people with ID, in research about them, allowing them to explore aspects of their lives and social environment, and to lead social change. Including adolescents with ID in research about them requires searching for alternative and diverse means of communication and expression. Dramatic expression may offer a range of means, verbal and non-verbal, and include performance, which is a powerful social action within the community. In this study we applied the ethno-drama-therapy model (Snow et al., 2017) with a group of 11 adolescents with ID participated in an 11-session drama therapy workshop in which the adolescents learned to express themselves through dramatic means, such as puppetry and roleplaying, and performed before an audience of their choice. In the course of the group sessions and the performance, the adolescents portrayed social and emotional issues that concern them, such as their relations with authority figures. The study demonstrates the power of drama in exploring, expanding, and expressing the authentic voice and free choice of this silent group, and presents initial results.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2020.101679
Datei : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197455620300526
Abstract:
This study aims to explore accessible methods and techniques that enable adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) to voice their own opinions and wishes about socio-emotional aspects of their life. Participatory action research (PAR) calls for the inclusion of marginalized groups, such as people with ID, in research about them, allowing them to explore aspects of their lives and social environment, and to lead social change. Including adolescents with ID in research about them requires searching for alternative and diverse means of communication and expression. Dramatic expression may offer a range of means, verbal and non-verbal, and include performance, which is a powerful social action within the community. In this study we applied the ethno-drama-therapy model (Snow et al., 2017) with a group of 11 adolescents with ID participated in an 11-session drama therapy workshop in which the adolescents learned to express themselves through dramatic means, such as puppetry and roleplaying, and performed before an audience of their choice. In the course of the group sessions and the performance, the adolescents portrayed social and emotional issues that concern them, such as their relations with authority figures. The study demonstrates the power of drama in exploring, expanding, and expressing the authentic voice and free choice of this silent group, and presents initial results.
M. E. Dean,
N. Amendolara and
J. Regula,
"Therapeutic workforce development: Technology and the professional persona",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 6,
no. 1,
pp. 49—66,
2020.
Abstract:
The Animation Project (TAP) is a therapeutic workforce development program that teaches put-at-risk youth digital technology skills and develops core professional skills. Drama therapy theory and interventions are often employed by TAP creative arts therapists in guiding young adults in their professional development. A case illustration is presented to showcase how a participant may move through the levels and how role theory has been used to develop the professional persona alongside technical advancement. The results of this illustration indicate that role theory and method interventions positively enhanced a TAP intern’s professional persona alongside technical skill acquisition.
DOI: 10.1386/dtr_00015_1
Abstract:
The Animation Project (TAP) is a therapeutic workforce development program that teaches put-at-risk youth digital technology skills and develops core professional skills. Drama therapy theory and interventions are often employed by TAP creative arts therapists in guiding young adults in their professional development. A case illustration is presented to showcase how a participant may move through the levels and how role theory has been used to develop the professional persona alongside technical advancement. The results of this illustration indicate that role theory and method interventions positively enhanced a TAP intern’s professional persona alongside technical skill acquisition.
L. Combes and
L. A. Bradley,
"To Jurassic Park via Australia: A case study showing how dramatherapy enabled the creation and maintenance of embodied metaphors to support recovery from early psychosis",
Dramatherapy,
vol. 41,
no. 1,
pp. 37—49,
2020.
Abstract:
This case study shows how Dramatherapy can engage clients with communication difficulties, which exclude them from standard mental health pathways in early intervention in psychosis services. Deliberately prioritising the client’s newfound modes of expression to shape the narrative within, it is evident Dramatherapy processes; embodiment, projection and role enabled this client to create and then inhabit his own playful metaphors. These metaphors continued to facilitate every-day life challenges. During his Dramatherapy relationship, the client within this case study transitioned from supported accommodation to his own property, progressed to residential rehabilitation for alcohol misuse and finally engaged in cognitive behavioural therapy. From feedback interviews we know he continued to create and use his own protective metaphors 10 months after drama therapy ended. He returned to education as part of his plan to seek appropriate employment and was discharged to his GP.
DOI: 10.1177/02630672211002791
Abstract:
This case study shows how Dramatherapy can engage clients with communication difficulties, which exclude them from standard mental health pathways in early intervention in psychosis services. Deliberately prioritising the client’s newfound modes of expression to shape the narrative within, it is evident Dramatherapy processes; embodiment, projection and role enabled this client to create and then inhabit his own playful metaphors. These metaphors continued to facilitate every-day life challenges. During his Dramatherapy relationship, the client within this case study transitioned from supported accommodation to his own property, progressed to residential rehabilitation for alcohol misuse and finally engaged in cognitive behavioural therapy. From feedback interviews we know he continued to create and use his own protective metaphors 10 months after drama therapy ended. He returned to education as part of his plan to seek appropriate employment and was discharged to his GP.
A. Cook,
"Using an inclusive therapeutic theatre production to teach self-advocacy skills in young people with disabilities",
The Arts in Psychotherapy,
vol. 71,
no. 3,
pp. 1—8,
2020.
Abstract:
This quantitative study utilized an inclusive therapeutic theatre production for young people with disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions to establish if involvement in the production could affect self-advocacy skills, specifically, assertiveness. In the literature, assertiveness has been documented as a subcomponent of self-advocacy. The therapeutic theatre intervention thematically centered on the characters advocating for their needs. The Drama Therapy Role Play Interview (DTRPI), an established role-play measure developed by Snow (2009) for participants with disabilities, was used as the preand post-test measure. A single-sample t-test was conducted to determine if any difference existed between the pre-test and post-test scores for assertiveness. The participants scored significantly higher in the post-test (M = .88, SD = .92) than in the pre-test t(12) = (3.48), p = 0.005. The agent of change could have been achieved through several means: education, discussion, or embodiment.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2020.101715
Abstract:
This quantitative study utilized an inclusive therapeutic theatre production for young people with disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions to establish if involvement in the production could affect self-advocacy skills, specifically, assertiveness. In the literature, assertiveness has been documented as a subcomponent of self-advocacy. The therapeutic theatre intervention thematically centered on the characters advocating for their needs. The Drama Therapy Role Play Interview (DTRPI), an established role-play measure developed by Snow (2009) for participants with disabilities, was used as the preand post-test measure. A single-sample t-test was conducted to determine if any difference existed between the pre-test and post-test scores for assertiveness. The participants scored significantly higher in the post-test (M = .88, SD = .92) than in the pre-test t(12) = (3.48), p = 0.005. The agent of change could have been achieved through several means: education, discussion, or embodiment.
R. Feniger-Schaal and
N. Koren-Karie,
"Using Drama Therapy to Enhance Maternal Insightfulness and Reduce Children's Behavior Problems",
Frontiers in Psychology,
vol. 11,
pp. 1—12,
2020.
Abstract:
Maternal insightfulness or the capacity to see things from the child's point of view, is considered to be a crucial construct for therapeutic change. In the present study, we aimed to implement the knowledge gleaned from the studies on attachment theory and maternal insightfulness into clinical practice to create an intervention program for mothers of children-at-risk due to inadequate parental care. We used drama therapy to \textquotedblpractice\textquotedbl maternal insightfulness in more \textquotedblexperiential\textquotedbl ways, because the use of creative expressive means may be accessible and effective for the target population of the study and help improve maternal care. We used a manualized 10-week drama therapy-group intervention, focusing on the core concepts of maternal insightfulness: insightfulness, separateness, complexity, and acceptance. We used various dramatic means to explore and experience these components of maternal insightfulness. Forty mothers of children-at-risk took part in eight groups of parental insightfulness drama therapy (PIDT). To evaluate the efficacy of the intervention, we used the Insightfulness Assessment (IA) interview, which produces 10 scales and a final classification of PI and non-PI. The Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) was used to evaluate a change in children's behavior problems. The assessment took place at three time points: before the intervention (T1), right after the end of the intervention (T2), and 6 months following the intervention (T3). Results at T2 showed a significant improvement compared to T1 in some of the maternal insightfulness scales, but not in the maternal insightfulness categorical classification. At T3, there was a significant change in the classification of the mothers, from non-insightful to positively insightful. At T3, there was also a significant decline in the children's externalized and general behavioral problems. The results of this study contribute to an evidence-based practice of using drama therapy in the treatment of mothers and children at risk.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586630
Abstract:
Maternal insightfulness or the capacity to see things from the child's point of view, is considered to be a crucial construct for therapeutic change. In the present study, we aimed to implement the knowledge gleaned from the studies on attachment theory and maternal insightfulness into clinical practice to create an intervention program for mothers of children-at-risk due to inadequate parental care. We used drama therapy to \textquotedblpractice\textquotedbl maternal insightfulness in more \textquotedblexperiential\textquotedbl ways, because the use of creative expressive means may be accessible and effective for the target population of the study and help improve maternal care. We used a manualized 10-week drama therapy-group intervention, focusing on the core concepts of maternal insightfulness: insightfulness, separateness, complexity, and acceptance. We used various dramatic means to explore and experience these components of maternal insightfulness. Forty mothers of children-at-risk took part in eight groups of parental insightfulness drama therapy (PIDT). To evaluate the efficacy of the intervention, we used the Insightfulness Assessment (IA) interview, which produces 10 scales and a final classification of PI and non-PI. The Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) was used to evaluate a change in children's behavior problems. The assessment took place at three time points: before the intervention (T1), right after the end of the intervention (T2), and 6 months following the intervention (T3). Results at T2 showed a significant improvement compared to T1 in some of the maternal insightfulness scales, but not in the maternal insightfulness categorical classification. At T3, there was a significant change in the classification of the mothers, from non-insightful to positively insightful. At T3, there was also a significant decline in the children's externalized and general behavioral problems. The results of this study contribute to an evidence-based practice of using drama therapy in the treatment of mothers and children at risk.
A. Köhler,
"Wie Geschwisterkonstellationen die berufsbiografische Entwicklung beeinflussen: Das Beispiel einer Theatertherapeutin",
Familiendynamik,
vol. 45,
no. 1,
pp. 24—36,
2020.
Abstract:
Im vorliegenden Beitrag soll der Zusammenhang von Geschwisterkonstellation und berufsbiografischer Entwicklung expliziert werden. Anhand eines Fallbeispiels wird exemplarisch gezeigt, inwiefern die spezifische Zusammensetzung des Geschwistersystems, das wiederum in weitere Einbettungsverhältnisse eingelassen ist, die Berufswahl prägt. Das komplexe Zusammenwirken biografischer Prägeprozesse wird mithilfe des methodischen Verfahrens der Genogrammanalyse erfasst. Wie die Fallanalyse zeigt, handelt es sich bei der Geschwisterkonstellation um eine wichtige sozialisatorische Ausgangsbedingung, die es zu berücksichtigen gilt, wenn es um die Frage geht, warum aus einer Menge an möglichen Alternativen ein bestimmter Beruf ausgewählt wird.
DOI: 10.21706/fd-45-1-24
Abstract:
Im vorliegenden Beitrag soll der Zusammenhang von Geschwisterkonstellation und berufsbiografischer Entwicklung expliziert werden. Anhand eines Fallbeispiels wird exemplarisch gezeigt, inwiefern die spezifische Zusammensetzung des Geschwistersystems, das wiederum in weitere Einbettungsverhältnisse eingelassen ist, die Berufswahl prägt. Das komplexe Zusammenwirken biografischer Prägeprozesse wird mithilfe des methodischen Verfahrens der Genogrammanalyse erfasst. Wie die Fallanalyse zeigt, handelt es sich bei der Geschwisterkonstellation um eine wichtige sozialisatorische Ausgangsbedingung, die es zu berücksichtigen gilt, wenn es um die Frage geht, warum aus einer Menge an möglichen Alternativen ein bestimmter Beruf ausgewählt wird.
2017
S. McMullian and
D. Burch,
"‘I am more than my disease’: An embodied approach to understanding clinical populations using Landy’s Taxonomy of Roles in concert with the DSM-5",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 1,
pp. 29—43,
2017.
Abstract:
This article presents the application of Robert Landy’s Taxonomy of Roles as an educational tool, through the perspectives of professor, teaching assistant and student roles, as well as a documented case study. This approach offers a personcentred, strength-based view of clients, and leads to a greater understanding of how someone with a diagnosis, as classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders by American Psychiatric Association (APA), behaves and performs in everyday life.
DOI: 10.1386/dtr.3.1.29_1
Abstract:
This article presents the application of Robert Landy’s Taxonomy of Roles as an educational tool, through the perspectives of professor, teaching assistant and student roles, as well as a documented case study. This approach offers a personcentred, strength-based view of clients, and leads to a greater understanding of how someone with a diagnosis, as classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders by American Psychiatric Association (APA), behaves and performs in everyday life.
H. Chang,
"A case study on the application of the Role Method in a therapeutic theatre production at National Taiwan University of Arts",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 1,
pp. 63—74,
2017.
Abstract:
This article presents an account of Dr Robert Landy’s influence on the evolution of drama therapy in Taiwan and at the National Taiwan University of Arts. It includes case examples of two therapeutic theatre projects, which led to important insights into the use of the Role Method to develop and organize a therapeutic performance. The inclusion of a therapeutic theatre project in the training of drama therapists is now a part of our standard practice.
DOI: 10.1386/dtr.3.1.63_1
Abstract:
This article presents an account of Dr Robert Landy’s influence on the evolution of drama therapy in Taiwan and at the National Taiwan University of Arts. It includes case examples of two therapeutic theatre projects, which led to important insights into the use of the Role Method to develop and organize a therapeutic performance. The inclusion of a therapeutic theatre project in the training of drama therapists is now a part of our standard practice.
D. B. Levanas,
"Addicted to crisis: Exploring the symptoms of an addicted work system using the lens of Role Theory",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 1,
pp. 113—129,
2017.
Abstract:
Professionals working in mental health care and addiction treatment systems may unknowingly adopt, reflect and mimic the symptoms of their clients. This parallel process, combined with the vicarious trauma encountered within the system, can lead to staff compassion fatigue, burnout and unethical practices, all contributing to a breakdown in client care. Using the lens of Landy’s (1993, 1994, 2008, 2009) drama therapeutic Role Theory, along with Wegscheider-Cruse’s (1981) Family Roles, this article examines possibilities that exist for an embodied understanding of vicarious trauma and parallel process found at the systems level, in an effort to offer direct care workers a better understanding of the implicit and disembodied roles they play.
Abstract:
Professionals working in mental health care and addiction treatment systems may unknowingly adopt, reflect and mimic the symptoms of their clients. This parallel process, combined with the vicarious trauma encountered within the system, can lead to staff compassion fatigue, burnout and unethical practices, all contributing to a breakdown in client care. Using the lens of Landy’s (1993, 1994, 2008, 2009) drama therapeutic Role Theory, along with Wegscheider-Cruse’s (1981) Family Roles, this article examines possibilities that exist for an embodied understanding of vicarious trauma and parallel process found at the systems level, in an effort to offer direct care workers a better understanding of the implicit and disembodied roles they play.
B. Versluys,
"Adults with an anxiety disorder or with an obsessive-compulsive disorder are less playful: A matched control comparison",
The Arts in Psychotherapy,
vol. 56,
pp. 117—128,
2017.
Abstract:
Playfulness is an important component of drama therapy. For adults with an anxiety disorder (AD) or an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) playfulness might be an unconsciously missed component in life. Therefore strengthening a client’s playfulness could be a major aim of drama therapy with these disorders. Where less playfulness is identified, drama therapy based interventions could be applied to strengthen playfulness. Therefore providing a contribution to treatments available to the client suffering from AD/OCD. Using drama therapy interventions would be less probable to cause negative side effects. In an online-survey both Group 1 (34 adults with AD/OCD), and Group 2 (34 adults without AD/OCD), filled in three scales assessing their level of playfulness. On all three scales the playfulness in Group 1 (M = 77.88; M = 62.00; M = 69.12) was significantly lower (p = .000 at all three scales) than the playfulness in Group 2 (M = 92.09; M = 80.24; M = 81.21). The relationship between having an AD or OCD and being less playful is statistically significant (Pearson’s Correlation of respectively −.458; −.639; −.464). A difference in playfulness within Group 1 in specified AD/OCD could not be distinguished. The results indicate that playfulness could specifically be part of treatment through drama therapy with adults with AD/OCD.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2017.06.003
Abstract:
Playfulness is an important component of drama therapy. For adults with an anxiety disorder (AD) or an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) playfulness might be an unconsciously missed component in life. Therefore strengthening a client’s playfulness could be a major aim of drama therapy with these disorders. Where less playfulness is identified, drama therapy based interventions could be applied to strengthen playfulness. Therefore providing a contribution to treatments available to the client suffering from AD/OCD. Using drama therapy interventions would be less probable to cause negative side effects. In an online-survey both Group 1 (34 adults with AD/OCD), and Group 2 (34 adults without AD/OCD), filled in three scales assessing their level of playfulness. On all three scales the playfulness in Group 1 (M = 77.88; M = 62.00; M = 69.12) was significantly lower (p = .000 at all three scales) than the playfulness in Group 2 (M = 92.09; M = 80.24; M = 81.21). The relationship between having an AD or OCD and being less playful is statistically significant (Pearson’s Correlation of respectively −.458; −.639; −.464). A difference in playfulness within Group 1 in specified AD/OCD could not be distinguished. The results indicate that playfulness could specifically be part of treatment through drama therapy with adults with AD/OCD.
S. Ryu,
"Avatar life-review: Virtual bodies in a dramatic paradox",
Virtual Creativity,
vol. 7,
no. 2,
pp. 121—131,
2017.
Abstract:
This article will examine ongoing avatar life-review projects, in the light of drama therapy concepts and methods, exploring a hybrid model of avatar/drama therapy in a virtually mediated environment. The avatar life-review platform will incorporate techniques/methods of drama therapy and psychodrama such as role playing, role-reversal, doubling and mirroring as a hybrid therapeutic model between VR and theatre. It will address multiple states of self in dramatic paradox, especially for people with traumatic memories, disabilities, memory loss or mental health complications.
Abstract:
This article will examine ongoing avatar life-review projects, in the light of drama therapy concepts and methods, exploring a hybrid model of avatar/drama therapy in a virtually mediated environment. The avatar life-review platform will incorporate techniques/methods of drama therapy and psychodrama such as role playing, role-reversal, doubling and mirroring as a hybrid therapeutic model between VR and theatre. It will address multiple states of self in dramatic paradox, especially for people with traumatic memories, disabilities, memory loss or mental health complications.
N. Dyer,
"Behold the Tree: An Exploration of the Social Integration of Boys on the Autistic Spectrum in a Mainstream Primary School through a Dramatherapy Intervention",
Dramatherapy,
vol. 38,
no. 2-3,
pp. 80—93,
2017.
Abstract:
This article examines the process of a dramatherapy group with three boys on the autistic spectrum who attended a mainstream school. The boys were part of a mixed group where their neuro-typical peers were both group participants and witnesses. The main body of the article focuses on eight sessions based around the theme of ‘the tree’ which proved to be a turning point for all three boys when with growing confidence they were able to express their emotional needs. Thoughts are shared on ‘theory of mind’ and why the lack of this quintessential quality for those on the autistic spectrum places severe limitation on their social functioning.
DOI: 10.1080/02630672.2017.1329845
Abstract:
This article examines the process of a dramatherapy group with three boys on the autistic spectrum who attended a mainstream school. The boys were part of a mixed group where their neuro-typical peers were both group participants and witnesses. The main body of the article focuses on eight sessions based around the theme of ‘the tree’ which proved to be a turning point for all three boys when with growing confidence they were able to express their emotional needs. Thoughts are shared on ‘theory of mind’ and why the lack of this quintessential quality for those on the autistic spectrum places severe limitation on their social functioning.
S. Pitruzzella,
"Between innocence and experience: Variations on Robert Landy’s Persona and Performance (1993)",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 1,
pp. 101—112,
2017.
Abstract:
In this article I explore the influence of Robert Landy’s concept of role upon my own vision of drama therapy. I recount how my encounter with his seminal book Persona and Performance (1993) provided me with guidance in my challenging quest. I propose that our innately human tendency for relationships relies on an inner core which cannot be subsumed under the notion of ‘self’ but can be described in terms of an innate relational potentiality that drama therapy has the power to revive.
Abstract:
In this article I explore the influence of Robert Landy’s concept of role upon my own vision of drama therapy. I recount how my encounter with his seminal book Persona and Performance (1993) provided me with guidance in my challenging quest. I propose that our innately human tendency for relationships relies on an inner core which cannot be subsumed under the notion of ‘self’ but can be described in terms of an innate relational potentiality that drama therapy has the power to revive.
G. Raucher,
"Core self, transformations and consciousness: Transpersonal perspectives on healing and holding in Role Method and DvT",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 2,
pp. 195—209,
2017.
Abstract:
This article offers an appreciative examination and critique of theoretical tenets of Landy’s Role Method (RM) and Johnson’s Developmental Transformations (DvT) from the perspective of Ageless Wisdom teachings and transpersonal thought. Consciousness, viewed as a depth structure, challenges Landy’s assertion that his role system obviates the need for a core self and Johnson’s minimizing of transcendence as a resource for mitigating anxieties around ‘the instability of being’. The transpersonal construct of Higher Self is proposed as a means to extend drama therapists’ capacity to hold therapeutic space for existential or spiritual issues.
Abstract:
This article offers an appreciative examination and critique of theoretical tenets of Landy’s Role Method (RM) and Johnson’s Developmental Transformations (DvT) from the perspective of Ageless Wisdom teachings and transpersonal thought. Consciousness, viewed as a depth structure, challenges Landy’s assertion that his role system obviates the need for a core self and Johnson’s minimizing of transcendence as a resource for mitigating anxieties around ‘the instability of being’. The transpersonal construct of Higher Self is proposed as a means to extend drama therapists’ capacity to hold therapeutic space for existential or spiritual issues.
T. Newman,
"Creating the Role: How Dramatherapy Can Assist in Re/Creating an Identity with Recovering Addicts",
Dramatherapy,
vol. 38,
no. 2-3,
pp. 106—123,
2017.
Abstract:
This article focuses on the use of role with two individuals in group dramatherapy treatment after active addiction. With current studies evidencing the success of the 12-step programme, this case study looks at psychodynamic dramatherapy after 12-step based primary treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. Once the role of the addict is removed, the symptom roles of ‘liar’, ‘failure’ and ‘the depressed’ are often left. Once a member of Narcotics Anonymous/Alcoholics Anonymous the role of ‘recovering addict’ is inserted and the individual is accepted into the recovery community. The multiple case study research focuses on methodology that enables improving resilience and self worth. The study uses the application of role in dramatherapy to identify, express and begin to reconfigure roles and sub-roles. It gives an honest account of personal challenges in relation to the (im)possibilities of brief therapy. Through two qualitative multiple case studies, the research focuses on two individuals in a group setting who differ in identity-related circumstances into addiction, the therapeutic process and how a psychodynamic dramatherapy role method can assist in the (re)creation of identity post addiction.
DOI: 10.1080/02630672.2017.1340492
Abstract:
This article focuses on the use of role with two individuals in group dramatherapy treatment after active addiction. With current studies evidencing the success of the 12-step programme, this case study looks at psychodynamic dramatherapy after 12-step based primary treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. Once the role of the addict is removed, the symptom roles of ‘liar’, ‘failure’ and ‘the depressed’ are often left. Once a member of Narcotics Anonymous/Alcoholics Anonymous the role of ‘recovering addict’ is inserted and the individual is accepted into the recovery community. The multiple case study research focuses on methodology that enables improving resilience and self worth. The study uses the application of role in dramatherapy to identify, express and begin to reconfigure roles and sub-roles. It gives an honest account of personal challenges in relation to the (im)possibilities of brief therapy. Through two qualitative multiple case studies, the research focuses on two individuals in a group setting who differ in identity-related circumstances into addiction, the therapeutic process and how a psychodynamic dramatherapy role method can assist in the (re)creation of identity post addiction.
R. Dieterich-Hartwell and
S. C. Koch,
"Creative Arts Therapies as Temporary Home for Refugees: Insights from Literature and Practice",
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland),
vol. 7,
no. 4,
2017.
Abstract:
One of the frequently overlooked psychosocial problems of refugees is the phenomenon of homesickness. Being forced into exile and unable to return home may cause natural feelings of nostalgia but may also result in emotional, cognitive, behavioral and physical adversities. According to the literature, the creative arts therapies with their attention to preverbal language-music, imagery, dance, role play, and movement-are able to reach individuals through the senses and promote successive integration, which can lead to transformation and therapeutic change. These forms of therapy can be a temporary home for refugees in the acculturation process, by serving as a safe and enactive transitional space. More specifically, working with dance and movement can foster the experience of the body as a home and thus provide a safe starting place, from which to regulate arousal, increase interoception, and symbolize trauma- and resource-related processes. Hearing, playing, and singing music from the home culture may assist individuals in maintaining their cultural and personal individuality. Creating drawings, paintings, or sculpturing around the topics of houses and environments from the past can help refugees to retain their identity through art, creating safe spaces for the future helps to look ahead, retain resources, and regain control. This article provides a literature review related to home and homesickness, and the role the arts therapies can play for refugees in transition. It further reports selected interview data on adverse life events and burdens in the host country from a German study. We propose that the creative arts therapies are not only a container that offers a temporary home, but can also serve as a bridge that gently guides refugees to a stepwise integration in the host country. Several clinical and research examples are presented suggesting that the support and affirmation through the creative arts can strengthen individuals in their process of moving from an old to a new environment.
DOI: 10.3390/bs7040069
Abstract:
One of the frequently overlooked psychosocial problems of refugees is the phenomenon of homesickness. Being forced into exile and unable to return home may cause natural feelings of nostalgia but may also result in emotional, cognitive, behavioral and physical adversities. According to the literature, the creative arts therapies with their attention to preverbal language-music, imagery, dance, role play, and movement-are able to reach individuals through the senses and promote successive integration, which can lead to transformation and therapeutic change. These forms of therapy can be a temporary home for refugees in the acculturation process, by serving as a safe and enactive transitional space. More specifically, working with dance and movement can foster the experience of the body as a home and thus provide a safe starting place, from which to regulate arousal, increase interoception, and symbolize trauma- and resource-related processes. Hearing, playing, and singing music from the home culture may assist individuals in maintaining their cultural and personal individuality. Creating drawings, paintings, or sculpturing around the topics of houses and environments from the past can help refugees to retain their identity through art, creating safe spaces for the future helps to look ahead, retain resources, and regain control. This article provides a literature review related to home and homesickness, and the role the arts therapies can play for refugees in transition. It further reports selected interview data on adverse life events and burdens in the host country from a German study. We propose that the creative arts therapies are not only a container that offers a temporary home, but can also serve as a bridge that gently guides refugees to a stepwise integration in the host country. Several clinical and research examples are presented suggesting that the support and affirmation through the creative arts can strengthen individuals in their process of moving from an old to a new environment.
N. L. Sajnani,
E. Marxen and
R. Zarate,
"Critical perspectives in the arts therapies: Response/ability across a continuum of practice",
The Arts in Psychotherapy,
vol. 54,
pp. 28—37,
2017.
Abstract:
This article advances a vision of response/ability in the arts therapies that can respond to the persistence of social exclusion and its impact on mental health, promote diversity, and situate social justice as central to healing. A critical lens, which takes into account how dominant narratives function as a form of social control, is used to analyze and discuss an example of community based art therapy, clinical music therapy, and drama therapy pedagogy. The authors advocate for an epistemological broadening of the body of knowledge in the arts therapies in order to render visible the ways in which arts therapists and educators create spaces of freedom, resistance, experimentation, and empowerment.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aip.2017.01.007
Datei : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197455616300764
Abstract:
This article advances a vision of response/ability in the arts therapies that can respond to the persistence of social exclusion and its impact on mental health, promote diversity, and situate social justice as central to healing. A critical lens, which takes into account how dominant narratives function as a form of social control, is used to analyze and discuss an example of community based art therapy, clinical music therapy, and drama therapy pedagogy. The authors advocate for an epistemological broadening of the body of knowledge in the arts therapies in order to render visible the ways in which arts therapists and educators create spaces of freedom, resistance, experimentation, and empowerment.
M. Minerson,
"Destination: Home – a conversation with Robert Landy on the current state of integration and the Hero’s Journey",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 1,
pp. 149—153,
2017.
S. Krasanakis,
"Dramatherapy and Drug Addiction Treatment",
Dramatherapy,
vol. 38,
no. 1,
pp. 53—58,
2017.
J. Moore,
M. Andersen-Warren and
K. Kirk,
"Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with Looked-After Children and Young People",
Dramatherapy,
vol. 38,
no. 2-3,
pp. 133—147,
2017.
Abstract:
This paper provides the results of a questionnaire constructed to solicit information about the creative structures that dramatherapists and psychodramatists are using in therapy with Looked-After children (LAC) and young people. After a brief account of the research itself the results are presented; this starts by defining the assessment and evaluation tools that are used by the practitioners. The particular needs of this client group are examined and what follows is the analysis and explanation of the creative ways in which the practitioners meet the needs of LAC and young people.
DOI: 10.1080/02630672.2017.1351782
Abstract:
This paper provides the results of a questionnaire constructed to solicit information about the creative structures that dramatherapists and psychodramatists are using in therapy with Looked-After children (LAC) and young people. After a brief account of the research itself the results are presented; this starts by defining the assessment and evaluation tools that are used by the practitioners. The particular needs of this client group are examined and what follows is the analysis and explanation of the creative ways in which the practitioners meet the needs of LAC and young people.
S. Snow,
M. D'Amico,
E. Mongerson,
E. Anthony,
M. Rozenberg,
C. Opolko and
S. Anandampillai,
"Ethnodramatherapy applied in a project focusing on relationships in the lives of adults with developmental disabilities, especially romance, intimacy and sexuality",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 2,
pp. 241—260,
2017.
Abstract:
This article reviews a six-month, collaborative, research project, sponsored by the Centre for the Arts in Human Development at Concordia University. The study investigated how ethnodramatherapy (EDT), a new method that integrates ethnodrama with drama therapy, could help adults with developmental disabilities (DD) to explore their lived experience of human relationships, including intimacy, romance and sexuality. EDT was used to create performance-based research on relationships, while also providing a supportive and therapeutic experience to group members. Results demonstrated the empowering effects of the participants expressing their authentic voice. Responses of the audience to a post-performance questionnaire were also analysed.
Abstract:
This article reviews a six-month, collaborative, research project, sponsored by the Centre for the Arts in Human Development at Concordia University. The study investigated how ethnodramatherapy (EDT), a new method that integrates ethnodrama with drama therapy, could help adults with developmental disabilities (DD) to explore their lived experience of human relationships, including intimacy, romance and sexuality. EDT was used to create performance-based research on relationships, while also providing a supportive and therapeutic experience to group members. Results demonstrated the empowering effects of the participants expressing their authentic voice. Responses of the audience to a post-performance questionnaire were also analysed.
D. J. Wiener,
"From action to insight: Uses of Post-Enactment Processing in the action therapies",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 2,
pp. 181—194,
2017.
Abstract:
Action therapy techniques provide vivid experiences that, in themselves, often promote therapeutic change via insight. Applicable to all action therapies, verbal Post-Enactment Processing (PEP) provides reflection, questioning and associations during the verbal discourse that may follow therapeutically guided enactments. Ways of conducting PEP to facilitate insight are described in detail through a case example drawn from Rehearsals for Growth (RfG) couples therapy.
Abstract:
Action therapy techniques provide vivid experiences that, in themselves, often promote therapeutic change via insight. Applicable to all action therapies, verbal Post-Enactment Processing (PEP) provides reflection, questioning and associations during the verbal discourse that may follow therapeutically guided enactments. Ways of conducting PEP to facilitate insight are described in detail through a case example drawn from Rehearsals for Growth (RfG) couples therapy.
D. G. Trottier and
L. Hilt,
"I don’t feel naked: The use of embodied supervision to examine the impact of patient clothing on clinical countertransference on an inpatient psychiatry unit",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 2,
pp. 261—283,
2017.
Abstract:
This arts-based research study explores the impact of patient clothing on clinician countertransference in the context of an acute inpatient psychiatric unit. A drama therapy intern and drama therapy supervisor used costuming, photography and embodied supervision to reflect on the role of clothing in this context. The outcomes suggest that clothing can be considered as costumes in this context, that patient clothing does influence how clinicians feel and think about patients, and that clothing carries multiple meanings in the context of inpatient psychiatry. Embodied supervision was also useful in examining countertransference in general, increasing empathy towards patients, and illuminating the complexity within the triadic relationship of patient, therapist and supervisor.
Abstract:
This arts-based research study explores the impact of patient clothing on clinician countertransference in the context of an acute inpatient psychiatric unit. A drama therapy intern and drama therapy supervisor used costuming, photography and embodied supervision to reflect on the role of clothing in this context. The outcomes suggest that clothing can be considered as costumes in this context, that patient clothing does influence how clinicians feel and think about patients, and that clothing carries multiple meanings in the context of inpatient psychiatry. Embodied supervision was also useful in examining countertransference in general, increasing empathy towards patients, and illuminating the complexity within the triadic relationship of patient, therapist and supervisor.
C. Dintino,
"In gratitude to Robert Landy",
Drama Therapy Review,
vol. 3,
no. 1,
pp. 25—27,
2017.
DOI: 10.1386/dtr.3.1.25_7
A. Seymour and
A. Gersie,
"Interview with Alida Gersie",
Dramatherapy,
vol. 38,
no. 2-3,
pp. 124—132,
2017.