Psychodrama

Psychodrama and CBT for Depression. The Hamamci (2006) study compared the effects of a psychodrama program that was integrated with cognitive behavioral group therapy for the treatment of depression. Psychodrama is a method of exploring psychological and interpersonal challenges by having participants enact the related events in their lives instead of only talking about them. Psychodrama techniques are especially helpful in situations where irrational beliefs cannot be detected by writing them down or through Socratic questioning. The action-based method can make it easier to dispute irrational beliefs, in comparison to the verbal method (Avrahami, 2003). Furthermore, role playing in psychodrama can offer individuals the opportunity to generate…

Psychodrama was founded by the psychiatrist Jacob L. Moreno, it is mainly humanistic and is an action approach to group therapy. People discover their problems through role playing, enacting situations using numerous dramatic ways, help to find their own creativity, and learn new behavioral skills. By closely restructuring real-life situations, and acting them out in the present. This gives the clients the opportunity to evaluate their behavior as well as help them understand a particular…

After viewing the short film “Our time is up” by Rob Pearlstein, I was able to place the five components of the plot structure diagram as presented in theatre class. The five plot structure is, exposition, inciting event, raising event, climax, and falling action. The exposition is the beginning of the plot, it sets the foundational background of the main character or the story. At the opening of the story, you see a time clock set, an immaculate environment where everything is not just clean…

Group B addressing the following: Describe each of the parts involved with psychodrama and explain the importance of each in the psychodrama process. How do you view psychodrama in light of your faith? The director — As the title implies, the director is the group leader trained in psychodrama that facilitates dramatic actions exhibited by the members of the group (American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP), 2014; Gimenez Hinkle, 2008, p. 408; Psychology Encyclopedia,…

Creative Arts Therapy, specifically psychodrama or drama therapy has the potential to revolutionize care of patients suffering from emotional trauma including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drama therapy is a group activity developed by the psychiatrist Jacob Moreno who used “enactments of real-life situations to reveal the attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and values that underlie social interactions, thus deepening our understanding of them” (Leveton). Given the universality, and ease of…

Group Counseling Type: Psychodrama I chose to examine psychodrama because I am learning to lead it as a staff member at events conducted by the Mankind Project. I have limited experience at this time but have witnessed its cathartic results first and second hand as both a leader and a protagonist. Psychodrama therapy presupposes the client is committed to the action phase and beyond the contemplation phase in their own recovery. My stance on addiction is that, while it is great that the…

Mad World Directed by Richard Kelly, the award-winning independent psychodrama Donnie Darko (Director’s Cut released in 2004) takes viewers on a journey through the life of Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a teenage boy with the fate of the universe in his hands. What may seem at first glance as a tale of a schizophrenic teen struggling with his inner demons is actually something much more compelling; Donnie is the “living receiver” of a tangent universe, and it is up to him to save the primary…

term that is used to illustrate the process of treating psychological disorders and mental illness (Cherry, 2015). Specifically, Moreno’s psychodrama therapy is a type of group psychotherapy, which aims to ameliorate participants’ social communications skills, re-build their self-assurance, and enable them to express their positive and negative emotions in a safe and supportive environment (Blatner, 1988; Wilkins, 1999). According to Yehoshua and Chung (2013), there are three fundamental stages…

consisted of forming friendly liaisons, uncovering the capabilities and needs of students and creating correct outlooks in students in reference to the community, home, and school. Another turning point in the early 1900’s was in the 1930s when the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group was established. This group was the first major self-help group. During this time, psychoanalytic group analysis also materialized. In the 1940s was when the introduction of group work began. Moreno created the…

She also implores into the role of literature in our understanding of the human psyche and public affairs. Another paper entitled “Terrorism as a Gendered Familial Psychodrama in John Updike's Terrorist” by Alaa Alghamdi of Taibah University was published in Moderna språk in 2015. The paper explores the idea that logical and thematic inconsistencies in the novel, including deep ambivalence in the depiction of the female characters, are devices deliberately put in place to highlight a gendered…