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		Drama therapy evolved from the experience and research of psychotherapists, teachers, and theater professionals who recognized that sometimes traditional verbal therapies were too rigid to permit clients to confront and work through individual disturbances.
		The National Association for Drama Therapy (NADT) was incorporated in 1979 to establish and uphold high standards of professional competence and ethics among drama therapists; to develop criteria for training and credentialing; to sponsor publications and conferences; and to promote the profession of drama therapy through information, education, and advocacy.
		Drama therapists may be the primary or adjunctive therapist within a treatment team, depending on the needs of the institution and the individual.
	www.nccata.org /drama_therapy.htm (466 words)

	Drama Therapy Program at CIIS
		Drama therapy is the systematic and intentional use of drama and theater processes to promote emotional growth and psychological integration.
		As a primary or adjunctive modality, drama therapy may be used in diverse settings, including community mental health facilities, hospitals, schools, prisons, senior centers, private industry, and private practice.
		The Drama Therapy program at CIIS is one of only two approved graduate training programs in drama therapy in the United States.
	www.ciis.edu /academics/pdt.html (309 words)

	Expressive Arts Therapy
		“Expressive therapy is a disclosure of soul’s contagion.
		Drama therapy is the systematic and intentional use of drama/theatre processes and products to achieve the therapeutic goals of symptom relief, emotional and physical integration, and personal growth.
		Drama therapy is an active, experiential approach that facilitates the client's ability to tell his/her story, solve problems, set goals, express feelings appropriately, achieve catharsis, extend the depth and breadth of inner experience, improve interpersonal skills and relationships, and strengthen the ability to perform personal life roles while increasing flexibility between roles.
	www.audettesophia.com /expressivetherapy.html (1787 words)

	General Information - Creative Arts Therapies - Concordia University
		Drama therapy integrates the methods of drama and theatre with those of psychotherapy to facilitate personal change.
		The roots of drama therapy are as ancient as humanity's earliest known healing rituals, which commonly made use of masks, storytelling, enactments and catharsis.
		Drama therapy is also deeply indebted to the pioneering work of psychiatrist J. Moreno, who, in the early twentieth century, founded the field known as psychodrama, although drama therapy complements and is different from psychodrama.
	art-therapy.concordia.ca /dr_index.htm (537 words)

	MontessoriConnections: Environment: Acting for Real: Drama Therapy Process, Technique, and Performance
		It is the first book to offer a comprehensive and systematized description of drama therapy techniques as well as an in?depth analysis, supported by clinical examples and case histories, of the progression of brief and long?term drama therapy.
		Also included are an examination of performance?oriented drama therapy and "self?revelatory" theater as well as the poignant story about a group of seven former psychiatric patients and the play they created about their lives.
		Drama therapy offers an intensification of the psychotherapeutic process that will contribute to the growing need, in our current economic climate, for more cost?effective types of psychiatric treatment.
	www.montessoriconnections.com /bookstore/bookstore.php?c=mc006&n=11119&i=0876307306&x=Acting_for_Real_Drama_Therapy_Process_Technique_and_Performance (337 words)

	Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists I About I Drama Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Drama therapy is the intentional and Systematic use of drama and theatre processes to achieve healthy psychological growth and change.
		Drama therapy can be applied in clinical, educational, probation, substance abuse programmes, professional training courses and community development with both individuals and group.
		Drama therapy offers a variety of working methods that are applicable to a wide variety of clients within the full spectrum of learning disabilities.
	www.iacat.ie /dramatherapy.html (1121 words)

	Drama Therapy Institute of LA - Welcome
		The Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles is accredited by the National Association for Drama Therapy as a training program for students and clinicians interested in the clinical applications of drama in therapy.
		Drama therapy is the skilled and deliberate use of drama and theater processes to achieve therapeutic goals.
		Drama therapy is active and experiential; it provides the participant with a safe yet stimulating context in which to explore personal and family stories, set goals, uncover and express feelings, resolve problematic patterns, and as appropriate, achieve catharsis.
	www.dramatherapyinstitutela.com /Main.htm (364 words)

	Drama therapy for schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like illnesses
		Drama therapy is one of the creative therapies suggested to be of value as an adjunctive treatment for people with schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like illnesses.
		The benefits or harms of the use of drama therapy in schizophrenia are therefore unclear and further large, high quality studies are required to determine the true value of drama therapy for schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like illnesses.
		The use of drama therapy for schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like illnesses should continue to be under evaluation as its benefits, or harms, are unclear.
	www.cochrane.org /reviews/en/ab005378.html (530 words)

	Drama Therapy Papers
		Drama Therapy in the Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Gender Identity Disorder.
		A curriculum for students with serious emotional disturbance is presented along with research indicating that drama therapy and the creative arts are successful in capturing the attention of difficult learners.
		As the expanding field of drama therapy continues to develop alongside conventional psychiatry, there is a growing movement to improve assessment and diagnosis beyond the existing medical model.
	www.dramatherapypapers.org /id12.html (697 words)

	Dramatic therapy
		Drama activities seem to wake up in people that part of the personality that captures joy and wonder, said Bailey, which is what keeps us young at heart and in our minds and wanting to stay alive.
		Bailey has taught drama therapy techniques to social workers and to administrators of long-term care facilities, nursing homes and adult care facilities in Kansas.
		Photo: Drama therapy, including using elements such as fake leaves in the fall, helps stimulate Alzheimer’s patients and orient them in the present, according to Sally Bailey, assistant professor of speech communication, theater and dance.
	www.mediarelations.k-state.edu /WEB/News/InView/42105drama.html (546 words)

	KSU Theatre Department
		Drama therapy is the intentional use of drama and/or theatre processes to achieve therapeutic goals.
		Drama Therapy students are required to focus their theses, reports, or projects on some aspect of the field of drama therapy.
		Core drama therapy courses are taught during the fall and spring semesters.
	www.k-state.edu /sctd/theatre/program/dramatherapy.html (843 words)

	Music Therapy information on MedicineNet.com
		Music therapy is one of the most frequently studied of the arts therapies, and research has been conducted on its effect on children, including on premature infants; on preoperative patients; and on brain-injured individuals, to name just a few groups.
		Drama therapy, newer than either art or music therapy (some say the use of music as a healing technique can be traced to the 18th century), is also being used more in clinical settings.
		Don Laffoon, a registered drama therapist and chair of the National Coalition of Arts Therapies Association, immediate past president of the National Association for Drama Therapy, and director of Stop-Gap, a drama therapy group, uses drama therapy as a prevention and intervention tool.
	www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=51836 (707 words)

	Employment Enhancement Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The purpose of this grant is to encourage drama therapists early in their careers to develop and conduct workshops and projects outside of the established venues that will enhance their reputation and increase their employment prospects.
		For instance, a drama therapy demonstration project, workshop or time-limited group for a potential employer may lead to full time or part-time employment at that agency.
		To be eligible, the applicant must be a Registered Drama Therapist, not on the faculty of an approved or alternative training drama therapy program, and not presenting the workshop or project in association with one of these programs or at a regional or national conference.
	www.dramatherapyfund.org /employmentgrant.html (279 words)

	What Is (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The National Association for Drama Therapy (NADT) was incorporated in 1979 to establish and uphold rigorous standards of professional competence for drama therapists.
		Drama therapy is an active, experiental approach that facilitates the client's ability to tell his/her story, solve problems, set goals, express feelings appropriately, achieve catharsis, extend the depth and breadth of inner experience, improve interpersonal skills and relationships, and strengthen the ability to perform personal life roles while increasing flexibility between roles.
		Drama therapy differs from theater in education in it's greater emphasis (usually) on the emotional and personally therapeutic side of the work.
	www.artsintherapy.com /whatis.asp?id=228 (720 words)

	Drama Therapy Doorways2power - rebirth specialists, rebirthing information, breath therapy, breath work, rebirthing ...
		It is the use of drama and related techniques through workshops and courses to heal and transform body, mind, emotions and spirit.
		In preparing for a role, they may recall and release traumatic experiences, but unlike standard therapy, which often just talks about them, focusing on the negative, actors are usually given the space to express their experiences in the work of creating a character.
		However the difference between actors training and Drama Therapy is that we are not necessarily, requiring people to become actors, singers and dancers.
	www.doorways2power.co.uk /drama.html (646 words)

	MontessoriConnections: Environment: Current Approaches in Drama Therapy
		Current Approaches in Drama Therapy is the first book in the field to provide a comprehensive, organized and researched introduction to the breadth and depth of drama therapy.
		This purpose is carried out through: (1) A delineation of the 16 drama therapy frames of reference of the key approaches taught, utilized, and published in the U.S. and Canada.
		Current Approaches in Drama Therapy fulfills a need for a comprehensive introduction to the various drama therapy theoretical models and techniques that are being utilized and taught.
	www.montessoriconnections.com /bookstore/bookstore.php?c=mc006&n=11119&i=0398070830&x=Current_Approaches_in_Drama_Therapy (128 words)

	Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy Certificate Program - Omega Transpersonal Drama Therapy, Boston Massachusetts
		Transpersonal Drama Therapy utilizes the embodied arts in the recovery from all forms of abuse, dysfunctional relationships, and associated limitations acquired from personal history toward an experience of being fully present and whole.
		From this consciousness, transpersonal drama therapy offers creative experiences through which individuals develop an awareness of their soul's journey and potential service to expanding human consciousness.
		The importance of the employment of an embodied creative arts therapy is based upon the premise that transformation toward wholeness can more easily occur through the experience of the process within the imaginal realm.
	www.omegatheater.org /drama-therapy-certificate-program.php (234 words)

	Play Therapy UK
		She has a Masters of Arts in Creative Arts Therapies and is currently piloting a project to provide drama therapy to groups of at-risk children in primary schools in Auckland funded by the Ministry of Education.
		The bulk of the book is then devoted to the application of drama therapy to a number of themes including: the use of traditional stories; helping others;, dealing with change; working as a team; trickery and stealing; unlikely heroes; competitiveness and autism.
		This is based on a research study upon using drama therapy to engage the attention of students with an intellectual disability.
	www.playtherapy.org.uk /Publications/BooksReviewed/DramaTherapyPaulaCrimmens.htm (1396 words)

	Drama Therapy Courses
		The interface of drama therapy and other forms of psychotherapy will be explored, as well as the effectiveness of drama therapy with different populations and disorders.
		An exploration of the transformative power of drama therapy in the social context, and of the role of the drama therapist as agent of social change.
		A seminar integrating two years of study in the process, theory, and practice of drama therapy and culminating in a final project that may include either a self-revelatory performance, a theoretical paper or article, a therapeutic performance that the student directs, or a documentary videotape.
	www.ciis.edu /catalog/dramatherapycourses.htm (1080 words)

	Psychodrama-FAQ
		Drama therapists are generally theatre artists who take extra training in psychology and psychotherapy in order to apply drama in a therapeutic fashion.
		Drama therapists often work with patients in a more "distanced" role, a role not of the individual in his actual life situation.
		Psychodrama doesn't generally use ritual as much as drama therapists, but in fact there are increasing degrees of cross-over, so that many drama therapy techniques are being integrated into psychodrama; and vice versa.
	www.blatner.com /adam/pdntbk/Psychodrama-FAQ.html (1477 words)

	Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide: Drama_Therapy
		Drama Therapy is a health and human service profession that dynamically and effectively addresses the needs of people from youth to the elderly.
		Drama Therapy uses a drama/theatre process to achieve the therapeutic goals of symptom relief, emotional and physical integration, and personal growth.
		Drama and Therapy in Education: The Double Mirror
	www.tonisant.com /aitg/Drama_Therapy (679 words)

	Education for Activity Professionals~Thematic Programming
		Drama Therapy, which falls under the domain of Creative Arts Therapy, embraces the goals of the creative arts process.
		When thinking of Drama Therapy, many believe the only approach is to re-create formal plays, having participants memorize lines.
		Dilemma Dramas : Present real life situations - "what would you do if..." and have the participants act out their reactions, actions or responses to the event.
	www.dhspecialservices.com /dramatherapy.htm (533 words)

	ACS :: Drama Therapy on the Road in Aruba
		While she still pursues an acting career, appearing in soap operas and doing voice-overs, Sykes is also working with patients in drama therapy.
		Now, she has her own private drama therapy practice in Westchester, and also conducts workshops in Aruba four times a year through the Queen Wilhelmina Foundation.
		While the workshops use drama therapy techniques such as role playing, the topic of each group varies depending on the needs of the members, Sykes explained.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/NWS/content/NWS_2_1x_Drama_Therapy_on_the_Road_in_Aruba.asp (284 words)

	GirlHealth: What are my alternatives to regular therapy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Therapy is defined as therapeutic treatment of bodily, mental, or behavioral disorders.
		To me, alternative therapy means using other ways than just talking to a therapist, to express your feelings, or to figure out a problem.
		Drama therapy uses active approaches that let you tell your story, solve problems, set goals, and express feelings through theater exercises such as puppets, settings or acting.
	www.girlhealth.org /test/alt_therapy/facts.html (895 words)

	Job descriptions: Drama Therapy
		This is the use of drama to help emotionally disturbed people, or those who have been traumatised and find it difficult to interact with others.
		The drama therapist uses techniques such as role playing, use of masks and improvisation to overcome emotional barriers and release inhibitions.
		He usually works with other health care professionals and is responsible for keeping records and reporting on progress made. The therapist usually works in an institution or psychiatric hospital, some work in education and a few work in private studios.
	www.healthposts.com.au /job/drama-therapy_991.htm (155 words)

	Routledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		As an emerging psychotherapeutic discipline, drama therapy has been gaining global attention over the last decade for its demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of child and adolescent populations.
		Clinical Applications of Drama Therapy in Child and Adolescent Treatment is guided by theory, but firmly rooted in practice, providing a survey of the many different possibilities and techniques for incorporating drama therapy within child and adolescent therapy.
		More than merely a survey of the existing literature on drama therapy, this text represents a true expansion of the field: one which articulates the breadth of possibilities and applications for drama therapy in the larger context of psychotherapy.
	www.routledge-ny.com /shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=0415948452&parent_id=3&pc= (263 words)

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