ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most important is the entry into full membership of the British Association for Dramatherapists. There is a demand for dramatherapy posts to be created and more students are training in order to become full-time dramatherapists rather than use drama skills in their own discipline. Appointments of dramatherapists in hospitals and day centres have been equally haphazard. Dramatherapists are a new and developing profession and have to earn the respect of colleagues. Dramatherapists may be regarded with curiosity and may be ridiculed by some people and it is only by behaving in a professional and competent manner us that our special forms of therapy will be accepted. The dramatherapist is a link between artist, therapist and the medium of drama. Dramatherapists should be in a position to interpret what the volunteer is doing and the value to the client. The dramatherapist should be available to act as a liaison between the art form itself and therapists from other disciplines.
