What is Drama Therapy?
Drama therapy is active and experiential. This approach can provide the context for participants to tell their stories, set goals and solve problems, express feelings,or achieve catharsis. Through drama, the depth and breadth of inner experience can be actively explored, and interpersonal relationship skills can be enhanced. Participants can expand their repertoire of dramaticroles to find that their own life roles have beenstrengthened. Behavior change, skill building, emotional and physical integration, and personal growth can be achieved through drama therapy in prevention,intervention, and treatment settings.
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Who Can Benefit from Drama Therapy?
Drama therapy is for everyone across the lifespan. You do not have to be “good” at acting to benefit from drama therapy! It is effective as individual, family and group formats.
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What are the Outcomes?
Drama therapy is beneficial for individuals, families, and communities struggling with transition, loss, social stigmatization, isolation, and conflict. It is an effective option for the treatment and prevention of anxiety, depression, and addiction, among other conditions. Drama therapy can promote positive changes in mood, insight, and empathy, and it can facilitates healthy relationships.
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
~Hippocrates