

Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies
A systematic review and meta-analysis by Orkibi, Keisari, Sajnani, and de Witte offers encouraging evidence for drama-based therapies as a way to support mental health. While they differ in their histories and approach, both drama therapy and psychodrama use experiential theatre-based techniques such as role-play, improvisation, embodied expression, and storytelling to help people explore experience, rehearse possibilities, develop insight, and experiment with different choic


The Drama Therapy Core Process Coding System: A Transtheoretical Capturing of Drama Therapy Processes
Dramatherapy brings together creativity, movement, play, storytelling, and reflection. But how can researchers identify and study the processes happening within a session? This study by Angelle Cook and colleagues introduces a framework entitled the "Drama Therapy Core Process Coding System" (DT-CPCS) to help researchers and practitioners observe and describe drama therapy processes more consistently, inform training and supervision, and support future investigations into how

