“…we must not hold our fears…” A Case Study exploring the use of Group Dramatherapy as a Therapeutic Intervention with Children and Adolescents Living in Poverty.

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dc.contributor.advisorHauptfleisch, Temple
dc.contributor.advisorSchiff, Heather
dc.contributor.authorKoekemoer, Kayeen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Drama.
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-18T08:09:47Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T09:05:43Z
dc.date.available2008-11-18T08:09:47Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T09:05:43Z
dc.date.issued2006-12
dc.descriptionThesis (MDram)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the potential of group dramatherapy as an effective therapeutic intervention with children who are experiencing psychological difficulties related to their situations of poverty. It has been found that living in poverty causes children to grow up in an environment that is damaging to their mental, physical, emotional and spiritual development. The emotional issues that such children could experience and that are focused on in this study, are those of a negative self-concept and low self-esteem. The psychological difficulties and the different life stages that children or adolescents might be experiencing could contribute to difficulties in the verbal expression of thoughts and feelings. As a result the potential of a non-verbal therapeutic medium such as dramatherapy was explored with this client group. The use of dramatherapy to treat these emotional problems is first explored theoretically and then practically through the use of a case study. The case study takes the form of a participatory research study and this involved a dramatherapy intervention with a group of six participants at a school in Cape Town. The dramatherapy group was led by myself and two other Masters students from the University of Stellenbosch under the supervision of our lecturer, Heather Schiff, who is a trained dramatherapist as well as a clinical psychologist. During the dramatherapy sessions, drama structures were utilised with the aim that they might bring about a stronger sense of self for the group’s participants. Through the case study one can determine that the dramatherapy sessions did seem to bring about changes in some of the group participants, with regards to the perception and presentation of the self and increased self awareness and self-esteem. At the end of the dramatherapy sessions the group participants seemed to have a more realistic perception of themselves and also seemed to have developed with regards to self expression. It is also hoped that by expressing themselves through different dramatic techniques, the group members were also able to develop a fuller understanding of who they are.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3080
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectDramatherapyen_ZA
dc.subjectpovertyen_ZA
dc.subjectchildrenen_ZA
dc.subjectself-concepten_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Dramaen_ZA
dc.subjectTheses -- Dramaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshDrama -- Therapeutic useen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshTheater and youth -- Psychological aspectsen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshGroup psychotherapyen_ZA
dc.subject.otherDramaen_ZA
dc.title“…we must not hold our fears…” A Case Study exploring the use of Group Dramatherapy as a Therapeutic Intervention with Children and Adolescents Living in Poverty.en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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