Making a Drama Out of a Crisis: How to Use Psychodrama in Education by Carl Dutton We are often told to not to make a drama out of a crisis. Not to let the emotional aspects of ourselves muddy the … Continue reading →
Fairytales, Psychodrama and Action Methods: ways of helping traumatized children to heal by Rebecca Walters Abstract: This article describes the experiences of using psychodrama and its associated methods: sociodrama, bibliodrama, playback theater etc., with young children who are inpatients … Continue reading →
Ancestral psychodrama: The Genogram in Action by Judy Swallow, MA LCAT TEP Nature versus nurture – you’ve all heard that; it makes some lively discussions. And yet we are now learning through neurobiology that sometimes experiences from earlier generations echo … Continue reading →
Motivational Interviewing in Action: How Action Methods Cut Through Clients’ Defenses and Ambivalence by Regina Sewell, Ph.D., LMHC, CP and Rebecca Walters, LMHC, LCAT, TEP “Motivational interviewing is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to … Continue reading →
Coaching, Positive Psychology and Psychodrama by Phoebe Atkinson Coaching has been described as a natural home for positive psychology suggesting that coaching is an ideal vehicle through which the science of positive psychology can be applied. Coaching has developed as … Continue reading →
Coaching and Psychodrama by Phoebe Atkinson Coaching and Psychodrama practitioners strive to bring a strength-based approach when working with their clients. Each discipline incorporates helpful methods to challenge distorted or negative aspects of the individual’s belief systems and behavior as … Continue reading →
Dreamwork by Ingrid Schirrholz, MA, TEP The other night I had a dream about a water pipe in our house bursting and threatening to flood a closet where I store things I don’t use anymore and then forget that I … Continue reading →
Why I Became a Psychodramatist by Regina Sewell, PhD/ MEd, LMHC, PCC, CP True confession: When I started out, I didn’t want to be a therapist. I was an activist and I wanted to save the world. I wanted to … Continue reading →
The Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute Summer Intensive From the Blog of Benjamin Lloyd July 1, 2015 Jacob Levy Moreno was Romanian Jew transplanted to Vienna in the early 20th century. He was a smart and inquisitive young man at just … Continue reading →
Couples Therapy: Directing Energy by Judy Swallow, MA,LCAT,TEP As a psychodramatist and somatic practitioner, I notice the actions of the body as well as the content of the words. I can invite clients to become aware of, or even exaggerate, … Continue reading →
