SOCIODRAMA TECHNIQUES FOR COUNSELING AND THE CLASSROOM – Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute

SOCIODRAMA TRAINING FOR COUNSELORS, THERAPISTS & EDUCATORS

October 27-29, 2018

Saturday 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 9 AM – 5:30 PM,
Monday 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Location: Boughton Place, Highland, NY

This workshop is now filled. Please contact HVPI to be informed about future offerings.

Celebration by Susan Aaron

Trainer: Rebecca Walters, MS LMHC LCAT TEP

~Space is limited…register early to avoid being closed out~

Sociodrama is an action method that allows us to explore group issues in a safe, structured and spontaneous manner. It is used to explore social and community issues with children, teenagers and adults. It focuses on group concerns rather than on individual concerns.

Sociodrama utilizes group dynamics, enactment, improvisation and psychodramatic techniques such as doubling, role reversal, soliloquy, the mirror and asides. It works well in a wide variety of settings- in the classroom to address bullying and inclusion, in residential treatment centers where confidentiality and emotional safety cannot be guaranteed, at PTA meetings and other community groups where people prefer not to reveal so much of their own personal story, and in professional role training with a focus on the shared professional role rather than the individual’s personal life.

Sociodrama has been used to train teachers, therapists, hospice workers, lawyers, medical professionals, hostage negotiators, etc, where practicing in live simulations can aid in skills development. It is also useful to teach socialization skills and interpersonal effectiveness to children, teens and adults. It can be used in therapy groups and recovery programs to engage and involve reluctant clients.

Sociodrama often focuses on large social and political issues involving oppression, social justice and social and political issues of a local and global scale. However, this workshop will focus on the areas in which Rebecca has over forty years of experience using sociodrama to address group issues in therapy and recovery, for psychoeducation and for interpersonal effectiveness and communication skills training with children, teens and adults.

In this workshop participants will learn how to:

Warm up the group
Engage the group and find a theme
Use the Sociodramatic Empty Chair
Use Sociodramatic Role Reversal
Encourage Sociodramatic Doubling

Participants will learn how to direct:

One Chair Sociodramas
Two Chair Sociodramas
Sociodramatic Dialogues
Circle Sociodramas
Short Scenes
Sharing and Closure

Among the possibilities of sociodramatic scene work participants may be introduced to are:

Living Newspaper (Current Events)/Topical Issue
Literature in Action
Bibliodrama/bibliodrama
Teaching History in Action

Students at all levels of experience are welcomed. Overnight accommodations are available.
19 hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy

Continuing Education Hours

Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #6789. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hudson Valley Psychodrama, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This course is approved for 19 CE. Click here for more information.

NYS LICENSED CREATIVE ARTS THERAPISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS: In collaboration with the Sociometric Institute, Inc. this course provides 19 hours of continuing education.

The Sociometric Institute is recognized by the NYSED’s State Boards for Social Work and Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0268, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0096, and licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0046.

This workshop offers 19 training hours towards certification by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.

HVPI is an approved continuing education provider for NYS OASAS (CASAC).

There is a $25 fee for each NBCC, NYS Licensed Social Work, Mental Health Counseling and Creative Arts Therapy Continuing Education certificate. Certificates for Psychodrama training hours and NYS OASAS (CASAC)are provided free of charge.

For more information regarding Continuing Education hours please contact HVPI.

Registration and Fees

$550.

Refund policy: 4 weeks notice: 100% refund
2 weeks notice: 50% credit towards future HVPI trainings
Less than 2 weeks: no credit or refunds
For more information on HVPI policies click here.

TRAINER: Rebecca Walters, M.S., TEP, LMHC, LCAT is the founder and co-director of the Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute in New Paltz. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama and is the recipient of their 2018 JL Moreno Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field. Rebecca was the Director of Adolescent and Child Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Westchester, NY, where she worked for twenty five years. There she developed DBT in Action groups for teaching adolescents DBT Skills. Rebecca was on the faculty of University of Texas’s MD Anderson Cancer Center ICare program where she taught communication skills.

Rebecca is certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She is licensed in NYS as a Creative Arts Therapist and as a Mental Health Counselor. As a trainer she is known for her warmth, sensitivity, humor and clarity.

Some of the Sociodramas directed by Rebecca have included:

Children
Stealing
Racism
Fighting and Aggression
Bullying
Sexuality
Adoption
Absent Parents
Social Skills

Adolescents
Choosing Sobriety
Resisting the seduction of Drugs and Alcohol
Family Conflict
Commitment to Treatment
Saying No Effectively
Making Choices (Pros and Cons)
Effective Communication with Parents
Dating Dilemmas
Emotional Mythology
Interpersonal Skills

Adults
Resolving conflict between teachers, counselors and teacher aides in a
school for youth at risk,
Empathy training for child care workers,
Intervention training for child care workers
Shifting roles for social workers in a medical hospital.
School re-entry after hospitalization
Engaging families in treatment
Coping with aging parents
Social skills and interpersonal effectiveness