Psychodrama with Children Comes to Estonia
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This training fits in as part of the requirements for reaching the title of Psychodrama Therapist with Children. At the end of the Training, participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance. Those participants who are interested in receiving a Diploma for Psychodrama Therapist with Children will have the opportunity to do it after fulfilling the additional requirements. See the full requirements for becoming a psychodrama therapist for children here.
The psychodramatic therapy of children differs profoundly from treating adults with this method and demands a lot from the psychodramatherapist. Children communicate differently from grown-ups. Playing is their instrument of expressing their inner world and they use symbols to do so. One can say: Playing is their „royal way“ to express the unconscious. They search for their possibilities by „Doing and Acting“. They test their inner images by acting it out and bringing it onto the appropriate stage.
Children play, choose subjects, places and roles. That is the way they express themselves, develop and have fun. Presumably this is the origin of the
psychodramatic therapy. Jacob L. Moreno based his psychodramatic work on this kind of play and included the basic steps and elements of the human development.
Children are characterized by an outstanding creativity. They can change sorrowful situations into a game with symbols and find solutions for their own conflicts. Constitutive psychodramatic fundamental techniques are adopted by the vivid, childish play. Child psychodrama supports the self-development and the advancement of children in a special way.
The participants will learn to recognize the inner dyna mics in groups of children and deal with them actively through play. They do so by experiencing themselves in analogous play situations, in exercises and reflection and guided methodological and theoretical evaluations. By participating in group or individual sessions in the roles of children, they gain an awareness of themselves, gain access to themselves as children, and thereby ‘playfully’ reinforce their personal skills.