Psychodrama is a natural and powerful method for helping troubled, abused and traumatized children tell their stories, safely express strong feelings and try out new behaviors and roles. It is also useful to teach social skills and problem solving to students with diverse capabilities and challenges in a wide range of settings. This professional training will offer participants the opportunity to learn adaptations of the psychodramatic method that work especially well with groups of children ages seven though twelve. Many of these structures can be adapted to work with individuals and families.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN!

 

Participants will explore and experience structures that allow for the safe acting out of children’s hopes, fears and difficulties through the use of:

• Fairytales

• Storytelling

• Sociodrama

• Personal life stories

• Group-created stories

 

Participants will practice variations of therapeutic action techniques that work with children such as:

• Doubling

• Multiple doubling

• Role playing

• Playback theater

• Inner and outer circle

• Family sculpting

• Role training for new behavior

 

The use of group ritual and structures for safety and containment will be demonstrated.

Ways to address the difficulties inherent in using psychodrama with children will be discussed.