Creative Drama Groupwork for People with Learning Difficulties

Chesner, Anna

doi:10.4324/9780429486180

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“…The conductor facilitates the teller and his or her story by interviewing him/her and then passes the story to the actors who improvise a theater piece that reflects the story's content. The ritual ends with the teller verbally reflecting on what has been performed (Chesner, 2002;Moran & Alon, 2011).…”

Section: Playback Theater As a Drama Therapy Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Like any other art, the theatrical expression in playback theater seeks to reveal meaning thorough the aesthetic distillation of experience and perception (Salas, 1999). The live theatrical improvisation constructs an original, vivid, and tangible experience of the life story, which captures its content through movement, position in space, words, dialogues, voices, and music (Chesner, 2002;Dauber, 1999). The artistic expression of the story is usually constructed according to the playback theater short forms or in a more open and longer form of improvisation.…”

Section: Playback Theater As a Drama Therapy Approachmentioning

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Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.

Keisari

Palgi

Yaniv

2022

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Playback theater is a form of improvisational theater that combines artistic expression with an exploration of life stories in a group creative process. The goal of the current study was to examine an integrative intervention for older adults, which includes participation in playback theater in accordance with the life-review method. We examined the effect of the intervention on the positive and negative aspects of mental health among community-dwelling older adults in adult day centers. In a randomized controlled trial, data were collected from 78 participants consisting of older adults in 4 adult day centers (Mage = 79.60 years, SD = 6.89: range = 63–96), randomly assigned to a 12-week playback theater group or care-as-usual group. The participants reported on aspects of mental health and mental illness before, immediately after, and 3 months after the intervention. The results show a significant Time × Group interaction, validating the intervention’s effectiveness for improving positive mental health indices: self-acceptance, personal growth, relationships with others, satisfaction with relationships, current well-being, positive affect, meaning in life, satisfaction with life, and self-esteem as well as depressive symptoms. This improvement remained stable 3 months after the intervention. Our findings confirm that a structured short-term creative group intervention, which integrates life review with playback theater participation, induces a strong and persistent positive psychological effect in community-dwelling older adults. The current study suggests that this type of creative intervention in the community may provide an opportunity for older adults to flourish and experience psychological growth.

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Section: Playback Theater As a Drama Therapy Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Playback Theater As a Drama Therapy Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.

Keisari

Palgi

Yaniv

2022

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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“…In addition, PT shows a significant relationship between emotional and cognitive level of the learners along with language development. Chester (2002) points out that in PT performance the language is often condensed. It gives a plurality of co-existing language insights.…”

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Playback Theatre and Narratives: A Micro-Level Study on the Development of the Oracy Through “Collaborative” Applied Art Process

Catherine

Suganthan

2023

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Drama strategies refer to the methods and processes used by language instructors for many years. These strategies are intended to involve learners in the creative process while exploring a concept, narrative, or thought. The students are encouraged to develop inquiry skills and use their imagination to gain understanding when theatre techniques are used. This study is intended to identify the impact of narratives in Playback Theatre that develops the oracy skills of the second language learners. The students pursuing bachelors’ degree have been surveyed from Tamil Nadu, India. The aspects with respect to Oracy skills namely vocabulary, intended meaning, structure grammar, pronunciation and pragmatic have been evaluated. The study also examines whether the relationship between the independent and dependent variables is moderated by the medium of instruction i. e. Playback theatre-based instruction influenced the oratory skills of the second language learners. The outcome shows that intended meaning and pragmatics are the most influential factor than vocabulary, pronunciation and structure grammar. The results show that teaching through Playback Theatre through collaborative learning enhances the oracy skills of the bachelor degree students.

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“…In this sense, the social does not exist outside of the individual determining its experience, but the individual also contributes in the erection of the social. Taking Foulkes’ analogy of the water, the salinity of the water as well as its temperature is regulated by the life that inhabits the water (Chesner and Hahn, 2001).…”

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Swimming in the waters of a sinking National Health Service (NHS): A group analytic perspective

Malda-Castillo¹,

Anderson²

2021

Group Analysis

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This article examines the psychological effects of the reorganization of the NHS. Through a combination of theoretical and clinical perspectives, the authors describe the psychological effects of the neoliberal and privatizing policies that have changed the landmark of the NHS in England. The article uses Foulkes’ main theoretical viewpoints as well as some Bionian ideas in an attempt to illustrate the losses, challenges, tensions and opportunities that the NHS has experienced in the face of change and pressure. The ultimate aim is to describe how group analytic theory and technique could aid understanding of, and thereby alleviate, some of the pain that the organization has endured through this process.

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Creative Drama Groupwork for People with Learning Difficulties

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Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.

Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.

Playback Theatre and Narratives: A Micro-Level Study on the Development of the Oracy Through “Collaborative” Applied Art Process

Swimming in the waters of a sinking National Health Service (NHS): A group analytic perspective

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