Course code

KUR6077.LT

old course code

KUR6077

Course title in Estonian

Psühhodraama ja draamateraapia

Course title in English

Psychodrama and Drama Therapy

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To use personal experience and practical tasks to provide students with knowledge about therapeutic applications of drama, psychodrama and narrative theatre, main methods and techniques.

Brief description of the course

The development of therapeutic theatre and its forms of expression. The role of three action methods: narrative theatre; psychodrama and drama therapy in the history of theatre. Free improvisation and improvisation based on one’s own story. Spontaneity and creativity as an opportunity of being human and developing. Psychodrama and social drama. Time: Space; Reality; Eternity. Four dimensions and four tools. The concept of role in the theatre, community, psychodrama and drama therapy. Narrative in drama therapy, sociodrama, narrative theatre and psychodrama. Listening to a narrative and mirroring back. Theatrical sketch and its variations. Narrative theatre.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
Experience and basic knowledge of different forms of drama, their effects and therapeutic applications;
Ability to use role swapping therapeutically;
Knowledge about group processes and participation in joint activity.

Teacher

Aivar Simmermann, MA

Prerequisite course 1

Arts in Therapy (KUR6078.LT)

The course is a prerequisite

Study programmes containing that course

Arts Therapies (KUKTB/09.LT)
Arts Therapies (KUKTB/00.LT)