ABSTRACT
This chapter includes several skills devoted to getting clients to tap into such valuable personal resources. Creative imagery approach aligned with cognitive behavioral therapy, used to provide a warm up exercise to get clients prepared for further psychodrama experiences. For many years therapists have recognized the presence and power of imagery and useful mind images as they relate to personal mental health and psychological balance. The therapist asks the client to imagine either neutral or pleasant images as a means of promoting a spontaneous creative feeling. Individual psychology used to hear about the current life situations a person is having through displacement onto past events. Focused imagery used to help the client move ideas or thoughts into actions. To have the client not just talk about doing something different but actually see it happening. The therapist helps the client learn to use his imagination to overpower negative, self defeating, or anxiety provoking thoughts.
