Psychodrama and drama therapy are organized health professions where credentialed
professionals intentionally employ experiential drama processes and techniques to …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic and complex neurodegenerative disorder.
Conventional pharmacological or surgical therapies alone are often insufficient at …

Creative arts therapies (CAT) provide a safe and creative environment for older adults to
process life experiences and maintain personal growth while aging. There is a growing …

Unfinished business (UB), when individuals appraise their relationship with others or
themselves as incomplete or unresolved, entails difficult emotions such as regret, remorse …

Objectives This paper explores a field training project of tele-drama therapy with community-
dwelling older adults during COVID19. It merges three perspectives: the older participants' …

An Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater is a comprehensive book presenting
Psychotherapeutic Playback Theatre as a unique form of group psychotherapy. This …

Playback Theatre (PT) was created as an improvised form of theatre based on the sharing of
personal narratives by members of an audience that, in turn, are reciprocated by playback …

This paper presents a qualitative case study of a drama-therapy group for older adults at an
adult daycare center in Israel. It explores the therapeutic processes in the group in terms of …

Integrating life-story work with drama therapy creates new opportunities for the
psychological development of older adults. In this conceptual article we suggest five …

This case study examines a therapeutic puppetry project conducted by a drama therapist in
a dementia unit at a daycare center in Israel. Three people with dementia and three drama …