{"title":"Drama-based therapies for spiritual well-being: Three cases in an oncological palliative care setting","authors":"Danna Sharoni, Shoshi Keisari","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00132_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00132_1","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last ten years, a growing body of literature has centred on the contributions of arts therapies to patients in palliative care. However, there is scant literature on the role of psychodrama and drama therapy in palliative care. This article presents three cases illustrating psychodrama and drama therapy techniques with oncological palliative patients. The three cases suggest how somatic experiences, dramatic projection, role reversal and imagination-based techniques can enable a restorative process to emerge in which the patients may reconnect to the personal, communal and environmental domains of spirituality. The creative and spontaneous space of the therapeutic process helps maintain a sense of self-continuity, generates a path to greater awareness of fear of death, reinforces coping strategies and promotes the resolution of unfinished business with significant others. Future studies could provide a broader perspective on drama-based therapies in palliative care through larger more diverse samples.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intercultural Dramatherapy: Imagination and Action at the Intersections of Difference, Ditty Dokter and Nisha Sajnani (2023)","authors":"Robin Luckwaldt, Jessica Bleuer","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00141_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00141_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Intercultural Dramatherapy: Imagination and Action at the Intersections of Difference , Ditty Dokter and Nisha Sajnani (2023) New York: Routledge, 288 pp., ISBN 978-1-138363-347-2, h/bk, $160.00 ISBN 978-1-13836-348-9, p/bk, $39.95 ISBN 978-0-42943-159-3, e-book, $35.95","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen Snow, Norman Segalowitz, Miranda D’Amico, Eric Mongerson
{"title":"The audience impact of an ethnodrama based on the lived experiences of family caregivers of loved ones with a mental illness","authors":"Stephen Snow, Norman Segalowitz, Miranda D’Amico, Eric Mongerson","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00131_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00131_1","url":null,"abstract":"There is paucity of research on the issues concerning family caregivers of loved ones with mental illness despite an increasing awareness of the importance of caregiving as an essential component of care. In this study, we examine the impact of an ethnodrama to (1) authentically reflect the experience of caregivers for people diagnosed with a mental illness and (2) impact audience beliefs and feelings about mental health and caregiver realities. Two focus group sessions were held with 21 family caregivers from a community support group from which an ethnodrama was developed and then presented across four performances to a total of 110 audience members. Audience members completed pre- and post-performance questionnaires containing items related to stigma, respect, caregiving attitudes and self-evaluation. Results indicated that audience members reported the play to realistically reflect the reality of caregiving for a loved one with mental illness, and statistical analyses revealed significant pre-post changes in the four categories of beliefs and feelings examined. The results indicate that witnessing the performance was a valuable educational experience and that ethnodrama has a place in mental health and mental illness education.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susana Pendzik, Maria Sol Guerrero Giménez, Robert Daney Alvarez Padilla, Idalmis García Rodríguez, Elke Jorzyk, Kiara Mendez, Patricia Contreras, Silvana Paola Ortiz, Facundo Sánchez Astrada, Eliane Scheibler, Martin Toci
{"title":"The First International Drama Therapy Practicum intensive in Mendoza, Argentina","authors":"Susana Pendzik, Maria Sol Guerrero Giménez, Robert Daney Alvarez Padilla, Idalmis García Rodríguez, Elke Jorzyk, Kiara Mendez, Patricia Contreras, Silvana Paola Ortiz, Facundo Sánchez Astrada, Eliane Scheibler, Martin Toci","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00138_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00138_7","url":null,"abstract":"The Argentinian Dramatherapy Association held its First International Drama Therapy Practicum in Mendoza, Argentina, in July 2022. The event provided six students and new practitioners supervised practice and advanced training in drama therapy. Two clinical seminars were led by experienced professionals for an intensive three-week period that included actual client-contact, group supervision and master classes. In addition, they were acquainted with local practices of applied theatre, playback theatre, community theatre and theatre in education. This report briefly summarizes the project and incorporates reflections gathered from an open-ended questionnaire by the students and supervisors who participated in the project.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the empty space: Spatial experience and relationship in drama therapy practice","authors":"Meaghen Buckley","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00134_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00134_7","url":null,"abstract":"This clinical commentary takes up Peter Brook’s (1968) notion of the empty space as the precondition for theatre, exploring the distinct nature of the empty spaces of digital and in-person drama therapy practice in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Spatial experience in drama therapy is explored through considerations of relationship, body memory and the effects of digital therapy on clinical practice. The commentary describes a sense of dislocation in experience, memory and relationship when bodies are not together in space, proposing a series of strategies to acknowledge and mitigate these effects.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A scoping review of observed benefits of Developmental Transformations (DvT)","authors":"Nisha Sajnani, Marc Willemsen, Jason D. Butler","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00133_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00133_1","url":null,"abstract":"Developmental Transformations (DvT), a practice involving interactive, improvisational play in pairs or groups, has gained international appeal as a therapeutic intervention for different populations in a variety of health, care and recreational contexts. However, a rigorous review of the benefits of DvT has not been conducted. The purpose of this study was to review extant literature for the observed benefits of DvT, identify gaps in the literature and make recommendations concerning future research including identifying possible areas for outcome measurement for preliminary studies. The authors, who each completed training in this approach, conducted a scoping review of English-language, published, peer-reviewed and grey DvT literature through 2021. From an initial 745 records retrieved through databases and a manual search, 51 publications met criteria, which, when analysed using in-vivo and pattern coding, resulted in a total of seventeen categories of observed benefits ascribed to DvT. These included six general categories – relational, emotional, social, cognitive, behavioural and physical benefits – and eleven complex categories of benefits to participants across the lifespan. In addition to benefits for participants, benefits of DvT were also observed and reported for facilitators, therapists, teachers and supervisors engaged in this practice. This review revealed inconsistencies regarding the reporting of practitioner training, frequency, format, population, intended goals, assessment measures and outcomes. Future studies with increased experimental rigor, standardized outcome measures and consistent reporting are recommended.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Sally Bailey: Reflections on the integration of mindfulness in drama therapy training","authors":"Grace Schuchner","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00137_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00137_7","url":null,"abstract":"In this interview, Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT, director of the Drama Therapy Program at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at Kansas State University, discusses the integration of mindful inquiry in the training of drama therapy students.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chasing the sun: Discovering Chinese therapists’, students’ and educators’ proficiency in the use of dramatic reality","authors":"Stephen Breithaupt, Ping Y. Yang","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00136_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00136_7","url":null,"abstract":"In this clinical commentary, we present insights about introducing drama therapy in China. We highlight how challenging our own cultural assumptions regarding Chinese nationals, namely that they may feel restricted when entering dramatic reality, enabled the possibility of rich, detailed and ludic responses. Relying on our joint knowledge of drama therapy and a Chinese cultural context, with one from the United States and the other born in China, we designed a lecture and drama therapy process for Chinese nationals at a family communication conference in Beijing. We discovered diverse theatrical expression in our encounter with Chinese educators, therapists and students resulting largely from careful cultural preparation and an openness to experience.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hate Letters to Miss Kendra: Will you Reply?, Written and Performed by Nicole Ventura, Vanessa Arthur, Katrina Sanyal, Alicia Stephen and Erinn Webb, with Art by Emily Kneis, Directed by Alicia Stephen and Erinn Webb","authors":"Amanda Rothman, Opher Shamir","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00139_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00139_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Hate Letters to Miss Kendra: Will you Reply? , Written and Performed by Nicole Ventura, Vanessa Arthur, Katrina Sanyal, Alicia Stephen and Erinn Webb, with Art by Emily Kneis, Directed by Alicia Stephen and Erinn Webb NADTA 43rd Annual Conference , Miss Kendra Program & Post Traumatic Stress Center, San Diego, California, 4 November 2022.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the intersection: Role Theory and the schizophrenia spectrum","authors":"Alessia Hughes","doi":"10.1386/dtr_00135_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00135_7","url":null,"abstract":"Clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses are often subject to biased definitions of health and wellness in western psychiatry. Therefore, the playspace becomes a site of potential for the client and the therapist to engage in a collaborative process of understanding and responsiveness. The following commentary outlines an individual drama therapy process that uses a flexible version of the role profile assessment; this intervention supports a client’s nuanced self-exploration. It also provides a shared language for the drama therapist to better understand their client’s inner reality in contrast to the repetitive, reductive narrative of the chronically mentally ill patient.","PeriodicalId":42254,"journal":{"name":"Drama Therapy Review","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135567218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}