Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy

by Clive Holmwood

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Author: Clive Holmwood

Publisher: Routledge

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1138838411
ISBN 13: 978-1138838413

Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 1138829722
ISBN 13: 978-1138829725

Routledge International Handbook of Dramatherapy is the first book of its kind to bring together leading professionals and academics from around the world to discuss their practice from a truly international perspective. Dramatherapy has developed as a profession during the latter half of the twentieth century. Now, we are beginning to see its universal reach across the globe in a range of different and diverse approaches. From Australia, to Korea to the Middle East and Africa through Europe and into North & South America dramatherapists are developing a range of working practices using the curative power of drama within a therapeutic context to work with diverse and wide ranging populations.

Using traditional texts in the Indian sub-continent, healing performances in the Cameroon, supporting conflict in Israel and Palestine, through traditional Comedic theatre in Italy, to adolescents in schools and adults with mental ill health, this handbook covers a range of topics that shows the breadth, depth and strength of dramatherapy as a developing and maturing profession. It is divided into four main sections that look at the current international:

Developments in dramatherapy

Theoretical approaches

Specific practice

New and innovative approaches

Offering insights on embodiment, shamanism, anthropology and cognitive approaches coupled with a range of creative, theatrical and therapeutic methods, this ground breaking book is the first congruent analysis of the profession. It will appeal to a wide and diverse international community of educators, academics, practitioners, students, training schools and professionals within the arts, arts education and arts therapies communities. Additionally it will be of benefit to teachers and departments in charge of pastoral and social care within schools and colleges.

Review

"This work is an essential addition to any upper-level program offering courses in DT, as well as programs offering a broad range of therapeutic modalities." - Choice Magazine

'The International Handbook of Dramatherapy, edited by Clive Holmwood and Sue Jennings, is a vital addition to the growing literature in drama therapy. Not only do we hear the voices of key pioneers in the field, but we also hear new voices from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, North and South America. Given the wide breadth and scope of the old and the new, the field of drama therapy spreads its wings even wider into a global world greatly in need of its poetic medicine.' - Robert J. Landy, Ph.D., RDT-BCT, LCAT, Professor of Educational Theatre and Applied Psychology, Director, Drama Therapy Program

About the Author

Sue Jennings PhD is a Play and Dramatherapist, social anthropologist and author. She has pioneered Dramatherapy in UK, Greece, Israel, Czech Republic and Romania. She has established 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play' and 'Embodiment-Projection-Role' as a basis for understanding both attachment and dramatic development across cultures. She is Visiting Professor at HELP University, Kuala Lumpur and President of the Romanian Association for Play Therapy and Dramatherapy. Sue is a prolific author of 40 books (6 by Routledge), and many chapters, and is currently preparing her 'Selected Works: Thither and back again' for publication by Routledge in 2016. Her PhD thesis was published as Theatre, Ritual and Transformation: the Senoi Temiars, by Routledge in 1995.

Clive Holmwood PhD is a Dramatherapist with 20 years experience working with children and adults in the public, private and voluntary sectors. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Dramatherapy and Deputy Programme Leader in Creative Expressive Therapies at the University of Derby and a Director of Creative Solutions Therapy Ltd. He gained his PhD from the University of Warwick which was published by Routledge in 2014 as: "Drama Education and Dramatherapy exploring the space between disciplines.""

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