| Definition of Dramatherapy
The UK Health Professions Council Standards of Proficiency for Arts
Therapists document (2003) describes Dramatherapy as:
"a unique form of
psychotherapy in which creativity, play, movement, voice, storytelling,
dramatisation, and the performance arts have a central position within the
therapeutic relationship." Dramatherapy
is the heir to the shamanic and theatre traditions of healing through
dramatic action. Dramatherapy can be defined as:
“the specific application of theatre structures and drama
processes with a declared intention that it is therapy.”
(Jennings, 1992b, 229)
The British Association of Dramatherapists' definition:
“Dramatherapy has as its main forms the intentional use of the healing aspects of drama and theatre within the therapeutic process. It is a method of working and playing which uses action to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, inspight, and growth.”
Note: In the UK dramatherapy is one word; in the USA it is two words: drama therapy.
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