ABSTRACT
The author summarizes the progress and resulting effects of this process – from using psychodrama to rehearse meetings with doctors, caretakers, family and others in their lives, to examining conflicts and experientially finding ways to ease anxiety, confusion and insecurity. We are also shown how to orient these people to time, place, situations, roles, news or events in order to improve their awareness and even their cognition. Throughout this book, the need for assistance from the staff and volunteers is emphasized and encouraged. In this part, the perspective of the staff and their process is recorded in their own words. The ramifications of applying group psychodrama to a population that is so challenged physically, mentally and emotionally are shared by the staff.
What can be learned, from accompanying these participants in a process, about their self-image, social image and medical aspects of their lives is also summarized. There is also a detailed description of the building of a new group when the center reopened after a long closedown due to the pandemic. The author shares important information on how she used what she had learned from experience with this special population in order to improve her approach.
