Benefits
How will your child benefit from Dramatherapy?
The typical benefits to accrue from dramatherapy are manifold, lasting and life enriching. Amongst many others they will routinely include:
- Improves personal insight
- Heightens self awareness
- Provides new ways of thinking and behaving
- Facilitates exploration and recognition of feelings and relationships
- Builds self confidence
- Enhances problem solving skills
- Bestows sense of self
- Assists with assertiveness
- Fosters greater social skills and cooperation with others
The LifeStage Dramatherapy studio is deliberately designed to provide the right environment for its clients to feel safe, secure and comfortable- essential qualities to obtain the maximum benefits from dramatherapy and sometimes compromised or overlooked in larger scale ‘mass market’ facilities.
A Message to Parents, Companions and Friends:
Further study and reading on the subject of dramatherapy is recommended to friends and family who may be routinely struggling with loved ones suffering any of the conditions mentioned.
What follows are web links offering further reading:
| Dramatherapy and Social Theatre | Sue Jennings |
| Drama as a Therapy Theory, Practice and Research | Phil Jones |
| Drama Psychotherapy and Psychosis | John Casson |
| A Psychodramatic Approach to Child Therapy | Bernadette Hoey |
| Drama as a Therapy Theatre as Living | Phil Jones |
| Dramatherapy with Children and Adolescents |
Sue Jennings |
www.chrisgoodchild.com
You may also be interested in visiting www.chrisgoodchild.com. Author of 'A Painful Gift', Christopher's autobiography of growing up with and coming to terms with his eventual diagnosis of Asperger's is illuminating, particularly in addressing fear of intimacy and entanglement.
