Integrative systematic review of psychodrama psychotherapy research: Trends and methodological implications

Orkibi, Hod; Feniger-Schaal, Rinat

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212575

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“…self-compassion) and therapeutic processes (e.g. flow of delivery of interventions) that may be involved in promoting therapeutic change, given the importance of further understanding the mechanisms of change that distinguish psychodrama treatments from traditional psychotherapies (Orkibi & Feniger-Schaal, 2019). A portion of program attendees did not consent to participate in the study, and there was an increase in non-response rate over time to approximately 30% at six-month followup.…”

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“…Psychodrama is one model of group experiential psychotherapy. It involves the use of guided role-play to provide clients the opportunity to explore and acquire insight into thoughts, emotions, and behaviors related to past issues, present difficulties, and future potentialities (Orkibi & Feniger-Schaal, 2019). Classic psychodramatic vignettes are executed in three distinct phases (i.e.…”

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“…Kipper & Ritchie, 2003;Wieser, 2007) support the effectiveness of psychodrama in treating a range of psychological problems in clients of all ages. However, intervention research on the clinical effects of psychodrama is still in its relative infancy, and there is a dearth of longitudinal evidence on the efficacy of experiential treatments centered on psychodrama in military personnel or veterans (for a recent review, see Orkibi & Feniger-Schaal, 2019).…”

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“…Moreno ended up conceiving the actor’s role as “the functioning form the individual assumes in the specific moment he reacts to a specific situation in which other persons or objects are involved” ( Moreno, 1994 , p. IV). With this definition in mind, the implementation of psychodramatic roles, which are spontaneous reactions to imagined situations, is what enables the self to achieve a creative resolution of personal conflicts ( Karp, 1994 ; Orkibi and Feniger-Schaal, 2019 ). Under this conception, individuals can experience possibilities of the self in situations not as yet experienced ( Cruz et al, 2018 ).…”

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Theatrical Performance as Leisure Experience: Its Role in the Development of the Self

2020

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Theater has been used in psychological intervention and as a metaphor for social life, tendencies that affect the self, highlighting how influential theatrical performance can be for individuals. Their limitations-in terms of the empowerment of the self and its authenticity, respectively-can be overcome by treating theatrical performance as a leisure experience, which considers that freedom and satisfaction play a central role in a more comprehensive understanding and development of the self. With this in mind, we present the conceptual and empirical bases of the leisure experience as an alternative conception of theatrical performance. To do so, we organized a 20 h theater exercise workshop with 16 university students (15 women, one man), aged between 18 and 21 years old (M = 19.06 years; SD = 1.06). The instruments used were: the Time Budget Technique (questionnaire about the activities carried out in the workshop, valued in relation to two items: perceptions of freedom and satisfaction); the Twenty-Statement Test (where people list characteristics of themselves-self-descriptionsrelated in this case to the theatrical exercises); and, as a third instrument, a combination of the other two-specifying which exercises were more closely related to the selfdescriptions. The results showed that group discussion was the activity with the highest perception of freedom, followed by obstacle exercises; as regards the perception of satisfaction, the highest value was observed in the relaxations. In the case of the selfdescriptions, the acquisition of practical and intellectual skills was significant, as well as emotional outlook and the expression of self-esteem. In sum, this empirical supportusing instruments that invite an exploration of the self-revealed, on the one hand, which specific characteristics of the self are manifested by doing theatrical exercises and, on the other hand, which exercises-when experienced as leisure-have a more decisive impact on the self. Thus, this paper shows what aspects must be taken into account when deciding which activities to include in a psychosocial intervention addressed to the development of the self from the standpoint of theatrical performance as a leisure activity.

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“…Recent studies have shown the feasibility of using psychodrama to improve different aspects of self-consciousness. According to the analysis by H. Orkibi and R. Feniger-Schaal "… overall, psychodrama can contribute to clients' self-worth and promote self-awareness, self-expression, and better perceived coping with difficulties" [15]. D. Kipper and T. Ritchie [16] in their meta-analytic study of psychodrama methods (reflected in articles from 1965 to 1999) noted similar improvements, as well as the techniques of doubling and role reversal as the most versatile [16].…”

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Development of students’ constructive self-consciousness experience in psychodrama process

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Derevyanko²,

Kanishcheva³

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The ongoing socio-cultural deformations mostly negatively affect the young generation, forming distorted forms of identity and self-consciousness. The initial hypothesis of the study was that the development of students' full-fledged self-consciousness can be facilitated by the process of their versatile self-disclosure and self-expression in the reference environment of the group, and this process can be successfully modeled using the psychodrama method. The purpose of the study was to determine the logic and techniques of building a psychodramatic process focused on improving self-awareness of students. The study was based on the role methodology of self-consciousness and the psychodrama method as a practice of replaying personally significant situations in group interaction. The study involved 131 first-year students of Belgorod National Research University. The questionnaires to identify self-attitudes and various aspects of the Self-concept served as diagnostic tools. The results were processed using the paired Student's t-test and Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation. As a result, the study revealed the content of psychodramatic process, the technology of its building and its forms. The essence of this work is to create favorable conditions for students’ self-realization in the reference social environment. The positive influence of psychodrama on the sphere of students’ self-consciousness was shown. In particular, the constructive images in their Self-concept were developing; their self-respect was strengthening due to the growth of reflected self-attitude (t=9.11, p ≤ 0.01) and self-confidence (t=8.56, p ≤ 0.01), autosympathy was increasing through the growth of self-value (t=9.29, p ≤ 0.01) and self-acceptance (t=8.41, p ≤ 0.01), as well as their negative feelings towards themselves were overcoming by reducing inner conflict (t= –8.56, p ≤ 0.01) and self-blame (t= –8.04, p ≤ 0.01). The performed correlation analysis revealed the connection between the growth of indicators of self-knowledge and self-attitude among students in psychodrama process. Namely, a positive relationship was found between an increase in the cognitive complexity of the self-concept and an increase in self-acceptance (r=0.53, p ≤ 0.01) and reflected self-attitude (r=0.51, p ≤ 0.01). The contrast of self-representations growth is positively connected with an increase of reflected self-attitude (r=0.58, p ≤ 0.01) and self-acceptance (r=0.55, p ≤ 0.01), as well as with a decrease of inner conflict (r = –0.45, p ≤ 0.01). The growth of self-concept integrity positively correlates with an increase of self-acceptance (r=0.57, p ≤ 0.01), reflected self-attitude (r =0.54, p ≤ 0.01) and closeness (r=0.53, p ≤ 0.01), as well as with a reduce of inner conflict ( r= –0.51, p ≤ 0.01) and self-blame (r= –0.48, p ≤ 0.01). A number of psychodrama modifications were proposed: long-term versatile building of a safe and confiding relationship space; predominance of non-verbal ways of interaction; saturation with relaxing and imaginative techniques; introspective form of psychodramatic action with elements of sociodrama; inclusion of “Self-centered” topics in the content of classes; targeted training of identification feedback etc. The results revealed a unique mechanism of psychodrama for developing the students' self-consciousness. This is the mechanism of symbolic-metaphorical replaying of a personally significant situation with the active participation of the reference group in creating a versatile positive feedback about the productive ways of the individual’s self-manifestation. The proposed modifications and techniques of psychodrama can be applied in practical work on the psychological support of students.

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Integrative systematic review of psychodrama psychotherapy research: Trends and methodological implications

Cited by 102 publications

References 70 publications

Effects of a group experiential therapy program on the psychological health of military veterans: a preliminary investigation

Effects of a group experiential therapy program on the psychological health of military veterans: a preliminary investigation

Theatrical Performance as Leisure Experience: Its Role in the Development of the Self

Development of students’ constructive self-consciousness experience in psychodrama process

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