DRAMA THERAPY
Our goals of drama therapy are often described as follows:
- Promote positive behavioral changes
- Improve interpersonal relationship skills
- Integrate physical and emotional well-being
- Achieve personal growth and self-awareness
- Improve overall quality of life
Aside from tackling these larger, overall goals, drama therapy can also benefit participants by providing them with the opportunity to:
- Express their feelings
- Tell their story
- Act out/work out issues and problems
- Relive their symptoms
- Achieve emotional and physical integration
- Experience catharsis
- Expand their depth of inner experiences
- Boost their self-confidence
- Improve their self-esteem
- Increase their sense of play and spontaneity
- Develop trust
- Work out relationship issues
- Improve their interpersonal/social skills
- Strengthen or expand their personal life roles
- Increase their mental and emotional flexibility