A dramatherapist uses role play, movement and storytelling as a medium for psychological therapy to help people explore and solve personal and social problems. Dramatherapists are enabled to explore a range of different issues and needs from autism and dementia to physical or sexual abuse and mental illness to develop psychological, emotional and social changes.
- Help service users use their creativity and imagination to boost their confidence
- Use voice, movement, storytelling, mime and puppetry to encourage individuals to express themselves
- Motivate service users to form one-to-one relationships and work as part of a group
- Support service users to express their feelings and think about the world around them
- Help service users act out situations in a safe environment
- Work in collaboration with professionals e.g. psychologists, social workers and teachers
- Schools e.g. mainstream and special education needs (SEN) schools
- Mental health wards
- Residential homes
- Young offender units
- Social care
- Private practices
- Homeless shelters
- Prisons
- Voluntary organisations