ABSTRACT

Drama plays a crucial role in healthy human development and dramatherapy can be particularly effective in helping troubled children or adolescents. In this book, twelve contributors, writing from a range of international and theoretical perspectives, show how the dramatic element in people's lives plays its part in patterns of healthy and unhealthy development. They describe practical ways of using dramatherapy with both groups and individuals and demonstrate that dramatherapy is a strategy that works, helping to bring about change and creativity.
Dramatherapy with Children and Adolescents will be invaluable to all professionals who work with children, including social workers, probation officers, nurses and teachers, as well as dramatherapists and play therapists.

part 1|55 pages

The play of young children

chapter 1|21 pages

The dramatic world view

Reflections on the roles taken and played by young children

part 2|46 pages

The context of dramatherapy work

chapter 4|12 pages

The role a role-play may play

Dramatherapy and the externalization of the problem

chapter 5|15 pages

How individual is individual therapy?

The use of contextual therapy principles in the treatment of children and adolescents in dramatherapy

chapter 6|17 pages

Dramatherapy for survival

Some thoughts on transitions and choices for children and adolescents

part 3|79 pages

Dramatherapy with adolescents

chapter 7|41 pages

Pinocchio – a handicapped brother

Working with healthy siblings through dramatherapy

chapter 8|19 pages

From adolescent trauma to adolescent drama

Group drama therapy 1 with emotionally disturbed youth

chapter 9|17 pages

Images and action

Dramatherapy and psychodrama with sexually abused adolescents

part 4|56 pages

Developmental framework

chapter 10|21 pages

Shall I be mother?

The development of the role of the dramatherapist and reflections on transference/countertransference