Drama therapy is a health and human services profession that seeks to facilitate physical integration and personal growth for individuals, couples, families, and various groups through the use of theatrical and dramatic processes. Drama therapists work in a wide variety of settings, including hospitals, schools, mental centers, prisons, and businesses. Therapy (in Greek: θεραπεία) or treatment is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ...

Using role-play, theater games, group-dynamic games, mime, puppetry, and other improvisational techniques, drama therapists help the client to tell his or her story in order to: In role-playing, participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Group-dynamic games are experiential education exercises which help people to learn about themselves, interpersonal relationships, and how groups function from a group dynamics or social psychological point of view. ... Mime Artist Dressed as a Hobo A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. ... A puppeteer is a person who manipulates a puppet or marionette, either by the use of strings, wires or their hands, for a stage production or film. ... Improv may refer to: improvisational theatre, and/or its subgenre improvisational comedy The Improv, a chain of U.S. comedy clubs Lotus Improv, a spreadsheet program This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

• Solve a problem
• Achieve a catharsis
• Extend the depth and breadth of inner experience
• Understand the meaning of images
• Strengthen the ability to observe personal roles while increasing flexibility between roles
• This may also involve movement with therapeutic touch

As with any new form of therapy, the therapeutic efficacy of Drama Therapy has not yet been proven scientifically. Ultimately however, it should be understood that it is virtually impossible to scientifically prove the efficacy of any psychotherapeutic modality, new or old. The variables are simply too vast, infinite in fact, making a controlled experiment impossible. Catharsis, Latin from the Greek Katharsis purification, is a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for living. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ...

See also

• Art Therapy
• Dramaturgy
• Play therapy
• Psychology
• Psychodrama

Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art-making and creativity to increase emotional well-being. ... Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. ... Play Therapy is defined by the Association for Play Therapy as the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development. ... Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos/-ology = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the mind, brain, and behavior, both human and nonhuman. ... Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy which explores, through action, the problems of people. ...

External links

• National Association of Drama Therapy
• Insight Improvisation