drama therapy
Acting for wellness
Drama therapy uses theatrical techniques—role-playing, improvisation, storytelling, puppetry—as psychotherapeutic tools.
Participants act out scenarios to explore emotions, practice new behaviors, or process trauma in a controlled setting.
The dramatic distance lets people approach difficult material indirectly: In drama therapy, she played her younger self confronting her father.
Related to but distinct from psychodrama.
- psychodramaTherapy through enacted scenes
- role-playAssume a character temporarily
- acting outExpressing distress behaviorally
- playRecreation or staged drama
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
group · group session · emotional catharsis · trauma processing · safe space · healing · creative arts · vulnerability · emotional release · story · transformation · role reversal · inner child · storytelling · social work · stage · clinical settings · self-awareness
drama therapytalk therapy
Psychological treatment via conversation
psychopharmacology · medication management · pharmacotherapy · psychiatric medication · drug therapy