Arts Therapy Arena

Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools

Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning

• Edited by Lauraine Leigh, Irvine Gersch, Ann Dix and Deborah Haythorne.

Published January 2012

Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists, educational psychologists and childhood experts discuss the benefits to the children and…
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Dramatherapy and Destructiveness

Creating the Evidence Base, Playing with Thanatos

• Edited by Ditty Dokter, Pete Holloway and Henri Seebohm.

Published July 2011

Dramatherapy uses the healing aspects of drama and theatre as part of the therapeutic process and is increasingly required to supply evidence of its effectiveness. This book aims to provide an evidence base for practice with destructive clients, and raise the profile of dramatherapy as a distinct…
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Drama as Therapy Volume 2

Clinical Work and Research into Practice

• Edited by Phil Jones.

Published March 2010

How is dramatherapy practised? What does research reveal about how dramatherapy offers therapeutic change? This book examines the many ways clients and therapists explore the therapeutic possibilities of drama. Whilst the first volume combined theory, practice and research in the field, this second…
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Dramatherapy and Social Theatre

Necessary Dialogues

• Edited by Sue Jennings.

Published June 2009

Dramatherapy and Social Theatre: Necessary Dialogues considers the nature of drama, theatre and dramatherapy, examining how dramatherapy has evolved over the past decade and how the relationship between dramatherapy and social theatre has developed as a result. In this book Sue Jennings brings…
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Supervision of Dramatherapy

• Edited by Phil Jones, and Ditty Dokter.

Published November 2008

Supervision of Dramatherapy offers a thorough overview of dramatherapy supervision and the issues that can arise during the supervisory task. Phil Jones and Ditty Dokter bring together experts from the field to examine supervision in a range of contexts with different client groups, including…
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Drama as Therapy Volume 1

Theory, Practice and Research

• By Phil Jones.

Published August 2007

This new edition of Drama as Therapy presents a coherent review of the practice and theory of Dramatherapy. With a unique combination of practical guidance, clinical examples and research vignettes this fully revised second edition considers developments in the field over the last decade and…
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Psychodrama

Advances in Theory and Practice

• Edited by Clark Baim, Jorge Burmeister and Manuela Maciel.
• Foreword by ZERKA T MORENO, and Grete Leutz.

Published June 2007

Psychodrama: Advances in Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the theory and practice of psychodrama, integrating different psychodramatic schools of thought. Psychodrama is one of the pioneering approaches of psychotherapy and is practised by thousands of…
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The Quintessential Zerka

Writings by Zerka Toeman Moreno on Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

• By Zerka T Moreno.
• Edited by Toni Horvatin, and Edward Schreiber.

Published April 2006

The Quintessential Zerka documents the origins and development of the theory and practice of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy through the work and innovation of its co-creator, Zerka Toeman Moreno. This comprehensive handbook brings together history, philosophy, methodology and…
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Introduction to Dramatherapy

Person and Threshold

• By Salvo Pitruzzella.
• Foreword by Roger Grainger.

Published April 2004

Introduction to Dramatherapy provides a theoretical framework for the practice of dramatherapy, and examines the relationship between the 'self' and the 'other'; the understanding of which, the author argues, is key to harnessing the full potential of dramatherapy as a healing medium. In Part 1,…
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Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis

Dramatherapy and Psychodrama with People Who Hear Voices

• By John Casson.
• Foreword by Zerka Moreno.

Published March 2004

Drama, Psychotherapy and Psychosis explores the use of drama and theatre in the challenging area of working with people who hear voices, focusing especially on survivors of abuse and those diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. In examining the often baffling and frightening world of psychosis…
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