ABSTRACT
Dramatherapists, together with other psychotherapeutic practitioners, may argue that they have no such lofty aims for clients as the attainment of self-actualisation or even of maturity of personality. Even in an area such as dramatherapy, where the client can be observed in an expressive as well as in a verbal context, assessment of his or her progress presents a number of major problems to the therapist. The author has shown that dramatherapy calls upon theories that range from psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, through humanistic and client-centred theories, to psychosynthesis, Gestalt and transpersonal psychology. All clients are individuals, and some are more suited to dramatherapy than others. During the dramatherapy process, the monitoring of client progress provides the therapist with the feedback needed if the therapeutic process is to remain sensitive to the client’s needs. As assessment in dramatherapy becomes more precise, so the subject will take on a higher profile within the therapeutic family.
