A Wisdom Archive on Drama therapy

Drama therapy is a health and human services profession that seeks to facilitate physical integration and personal growth for individuals, couples, families, and various groups through the use of theatrical and dramatic processes. Drama therapists work in a wide variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, mental centers, prisons, and businesses. Using role-play, theater games, mime, puppetry, and other improvisational techniques, drama therapists help the client to tell his or her story in order to: Solve a ... Including:

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DRAMA THERAPY: Drama therapy is defined by the National Drama Therapy Association as "the intentional use of drama/theater processes to achieve the therapeutic goals of symptom relief, emotional, and physical integration, and personal growth."
 
Drama therapy is an active approach to behavioral, emotional, and cognitive change that has been found to be effective with the severely disturbed and disables. Yet it is equally applicable to the exploration of human potential in all people.

 
(See also: Drama therapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul )

Art/Drama/Music Therapy: Using these "expressive" forms of art as a vehicle for change, self-awareness and growth, counselors guide their clients to a resolution of psychological or emotional problems.

 
(See also: Art, Drama, Music Therapy , Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)
 

EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES: use the arts to promote physical & mental health and personal growth. Examples of expressive therapies include art therapy, dance therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, poetry, and psychodrama.

 
(See also: Expressive therapies, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul )

Play Therapy is defined by the Association for Play Therapy as "the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development." A lay definition might be "a form of counseling that uses play to communicate with and render assistance, espe ...

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Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy which explores, through action, the problems of people. It is a group working method, in which each person becomes a therapeutic agent for others in the psychodrama group. Developed by Jacob L. Moreno, psychodrama has strong elements of theater, often conducted on a stage with props. Psychodrama - Psychological Uses. In psychodrama, participants explore internal conflicts through acting out their emotions and interpersonal interactions on stage. The acting be ... Including:

• Psychodrama - Psychological Uses

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Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. It is a Greek word meaning `action', drawn from the Greek verb δραν, `to do'. Dramas can be performed in a variety of media: live performance, film, or television. "Closet dramas" are works written in the same form as plays (with dialogue, scenes, and "stage directions"), but meant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of Seneca, Manfred by Byron, and Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe ... Including:

• Drama - Greek drama
• Drama - Uses of drama today
• Drama - Drama as a tool for education
• Drama - Workshops

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Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art-making and creativity to increase emotional well-being. Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with specialized knowledge about the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the affective properties of different art materials. As a mental health profession, art therapy is employed in many different clinical settings with many different types of patients. Art therapy is present in non-clinical settings as well, such as in art studios a ... Including:

• Art therapy - History
• Art therapy - Theories and Techniques
• Art therapy - Art Therapy Assessments and Research
• Art therapy - Clinical Settings and Patient Populations
• Art therapy - Non-Clinical Settings
• Art therapy - Professional Organizations

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Christopher Durang (born January 2, 1949) is a contemporary playwright, especially popular in the 1980s, known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work often deals critically with issues of child abuse, Roman Catholic culture, and homosexuality. Durang is a particular favorite of college theatre students and fans of alternative and political theatre. Christopher Durang was born on January 2, 1949, in Montclair, New Jersey. Educated at Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, he has had plays performed nati ...

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Codependence (or codependency) is a psychological condition in which someone exhibits too much, and often inappropriate, caring for other people's struggles. Codependents may try to change, or feel shame about their most private thoughts and feelings if they conflict with this person's struggle. A classic example would be a wife making excuses for a husband's excessive drinking and perhaps running interference for him by doing things such as calling in sick for him when he is hung over. Such behaviors, which may well les ... Including:

• Codependence - Literature

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As spanking, combining physical discipline (associated with violence =drama) and buttocks (a sexy part of both gender's anatomy), always aroused much human attention, it is no wonder that it entered spheres of life distinct from punishment. Apart from the erotic and from fraternity/sorority type initiations, which have their origin in educational (domestic of boot camp) types of discipline, these include : Spanking ...

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