Dramatherapy And Storymaking In Special Education

Description

Meant for professionals, this book covers the students attending special needs schools, and places therapeutic storymaking within the context of drama therapy. It offers advice on how to structure and set up sessions to be compatible with special needs learning environments. It shows how story sessions can address self-esteem and self-mastery.

Author description

Paula Crimmens has pioneered the use of drama therapy in special education in her adopted country New Zealand where she has been resident since 1996. She has a Masters of Arts in Creative Arts Therapies and is currently piloting a project to provide drama therapy to groups of at risk children in primary schools in Auckland funded by the Ministry of Education. She is the author of Storymaking and Creative Groupwork with Older People, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Table of contents

Introduction. 1. Getting started. 2. The use of traditional stories. 3. Helping others. 4. Dealing with change. 5. Working as a team. 6. The theme of trickery and stealing. 7. Stories of a special child. 8. The unlikely heroes. 9. Competitiveness. 10.Trust. 11. Devising stories. 12. Storyboard stories. 13. Research study. References. Index.