What Is Dramatherapy
Dramatherapy is under the umbrella of Arts Psychotherapies and Creative Arts Therapies. Dramatherapy is part of the Arts Psychotherapies and uses Drama, Art, Play, Movement and Music so uses methods and ways of working from all of those other Arts therapies. Dramatherapists work with their clients using a very wide range of dramatic techniques in verbal and non-verbal ways. Dramatherapy is a creative psychological therapy which uses drama to stimulate creativity, imagination, insight and growth. Dramatherapy uses dramatic techniques such as storytelling, improvisation, role-play, mime, play texts, puppetry and masks amongst many other methods.
- ‘Dramatherapy is a form of Psychotherapy. Dramatherapists are both clinicians and artists that draw on their knowledge of theatre and therapy to use as a medium for psychological therapy that may include drama, story-making, music, movement, and art; to work with any issue that has presented itself. Clients are able to explore a wide variety of different issues and needs from autism and dementia to physical/sexual abuse and mental illness in an indirect way leading to psychological, emotional and social changes. BADth Website - https://www.badth.org.uk/dramatherapy/what-is-dramatherapy