Supervision and Dramatherapy

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Elektra Tselikas-Portmann
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Jan 1, 1999 - Drama - 240 pages
Supervisors who wish to employ a more imaginative approach to their work will find concepts such as 'aesthetic distancing' and techniques derived from dramatherapy - the use of myths and stories, dramatic play and roles - particularly useful. Supervision and Dramatherapy explores the ways in which dramatherapy techniques and concepts can be applied to supervision, and looks at how supervisions are conducted within the field of dramatherapy.The contributors, leading dramatherapists from Britain, Continental Europe, the United States and Israel, have written on the historical background of supervion in dramatherapy, the process of dramatherapy supervision, the training of supervisor-dramatherapists, taking a dramatherapy approach to business supervisions, the supervision of crisis intervention teams and dramatherapy research. They offer insights into the relationships between supervisor, supervisee and client, and the dramatic roles that unfold during the supervision process. Drawing on their own experiences in clinical and non-clinical settings, and richly illustrating their accounts with examples from practice, they offer exciting and creative ways of effectively supervising dramatherapists and non-dramatherapists alike.

About the author (1999)

Elektra Tselikas-Portmann, DrPhil, RDTh, works as a freelance supervisor, dramatherapist and trainer throughout Europe and teaches at the universities of Graz and Vienna. She is engaged in the application of dramatherapy in different settings and with different professionals. Apart from supervision, her particular interests include drama in language therapy, language teaching and teacher training, multi-lingual and multi-cultural education, personnel and management development, and soft skills training. She has written three books and several articles on these subjects.

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