This book examines how drama therapists conceptualize and respond to relational and systemic trauma across systems of care including mental health clinics, schools, and communities burdened by historical and current wounds. The chapters in this book offer drama therapists compelling examples of emerging models of trauma-informed drama therapy, as well as offering experienced practitioners the opportunity to question the assumptions made by prevailing paradigms that underlie our practice. The introductory chapters review the influence and history of trauma theory and treatment on drama therapy, followed by two sections: The first presents readers with seven emerging approaches and the second section offers detailed applications to specific populations, ending with a meta-analysis of drama therapy in the treatment of trauma. This ground-breaking book will also be useful for creative arts therapists, mental health professionals, educators, students and for many others interested in the role of the drama and performance in the treatment of trauma. Inside Look Preview Available Contents: Foreword by Mooli Lahad Preface Section I: SURVEY OF THE FIELD 1. The Role of Drama Therapy in Trauma Treatment David Read Johnson and Nisha Sajnani 2. The State of the Art of Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy Nisha Sajnani and David Read Johnson Section II: TRAUMA-INFORMED METHODS OF DRAMA THERAPY 3. Drama Therapy in the Repair of Collective Trauma Armand Volkas 4. Trauma-Centered Developmental Transformations David Read Johnson 5. Self-Revelatory Performance in Mitigating the Impact of Trauma Renée Emunah, Gary Raucher, and Antonio Ramirez-Hernandez 6. You Arrive: Trauma Performed and Transformed Bonnie Harnden 7. Complex Trauma and Executive Functioning: Envisioning a Cognitive-Based, Trauma-Informed Approach to Drama Therapy Jason S. Frydman and Lucy McLellan 8. Exquisite Corpse: On Dissociation and Intersubjectivity— Implications for Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy Maria Hodermarska, Craig Haen, and Lucy McLellan 9. Animating Learning by Integrating and Validating Experience Nisha Sajnani, Kimberly Jewers-Dailley, Ann Brillante, Judith Puglisi, and David Read Johnson Section III: TRAUMA-INFORMED DRAMA THERAPY WITH SPECIFIC POPULATIONS 10. Extracting the Perpetrator: Fostering Parent/Child Attachment with Developmental Transformations Renée Pitre 11. Body as Impasse: Drama Therapy with Medically Compromised Children Stephanie Omens 12. Drama Therapy with Newly-Arrived Refugee Women Heidi Landis 13. De-Railing History: Trauma Stories Off the Track Christine Mayor and Stephanie Dotto 14. The Healing and Growth of Little Monsters Hurt Within: Drama Therapy at a Foster Home in Japan Akeyo Onoe 15. Drama Therapy in the Secondary Therapeutic Classroom Lanell Finneran, Rose Murray, Christie Dobson, Christina Cherry, and Jamie McCall 16. Safe Spaces and Scary Encounters: Core Therapeutic Elements of Trauma-Informed Dramatherapy Martin Redfern Index
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