sociodrama

[HV Psychodrama]

I use sociodrama adaptations in-patient with  children and teenagers when addressing common issues such as dealing with stealing, racism, being told no, having parents in prison, etc. I also use it for training supervisors how to deal with their supervisees. I have also used it to work with medical staff to address their feelings about difficult patients/situations as well as helping them deal with changes in their work environment. I have also used it for staff development and addressing tensions between teachers, social workers and teaching assistants in an alternative high school.

Also, occasionally the open psychodrama sessions held at Boughton Place have been used for a sociodrama, especially when something big has happened such as the US bombing Iraq and the World Trade Center tragedy.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Adam Blatner 
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  Cc: DRAMATHERAPYLST at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU 
  Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:59 PM
  Subject: sociodrama


  Dear Colleagues (especially in the USA), I'm wanting to get an idea of what folks in our country are doing with sociodrama. Not psychodrama, but explicitly sociodrama. 
             I could use specifics.  John Doe holds a sociodrama workshop once a month in x-town and about 30 people attend each time. It goes on for about y hours. It costs   z    . We require  a   of those attending.  What other questions should I ask. 
             For those who mix psychodrama and sociodrama, please say more about how the sociodrama part is addressed.

      Of course there are some sociodramatic elements in many if not most psychodramas, and in turn sociodrama often teeters on the edge of sociodrama. But I'm not interested in these mixtures---they're more subtle and generally occur in contexts that are primarily psychodramatic, oriented to the individual.  If in group, they may be protagonist-centered---in the sense of a protagonist playing out a problem peculiar to his or her own life.

       Occasionally a psychodrama protagonist is chosen because his or her issue exemplifies a theme that is common to not just a number of members, but that is at least 60% based on socio cultural expectations and perceptions about general roles that need to be examined in a group, such as
      what should guys do /expect on dates?
      how much should good parents do for their adult children when they are struggling?
      how politically active "should" a person be?   and in which ways? 
               etc. 

         Please contact others who do psychodrama, sociodrama, applied drama work in general and help me with this survey. Ask them to contact me with their answers to the aforementioned questions. 
        I hope to compile your answers and respond to Ron Wiener's desire to get a sense of the state of sociodrama work in the USA. (He's trying to do likewise for other countries (internationally). 

           
  Thanks

  Adam Blatner, M.D.
     website: www.blatner.com/adam/   


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