Creative Play and Drama with Adults at Risk

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Creative Play and Drama with Adults at Risk by Sue Jennings is a practical guide that explores the significance of creative action in supporting adults to improve their self-esteem and perception of the world. This manual is tailored for professionals working with diverse client groups, offering sensitive, accessible techniques to overcome nervousness about drama and to foster creativity and communication skills. It includes exercises such as 'finding your voice,' 'lost for words,' and 'who would I like to be?,' along with ideas for improvisation, movement, masks, and myths. The book also addresses cross-cultural considerations and clinical boundaries, emphasising the healing power of artistic expression throughout.
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This book is ideal for educators, therapists, and support workers engaging with adults at risk, particularly those seeking to integrate creative drama and play into their practice to enhance confidence, communication, and emotional wellbeing.

Offers an introduction to play and drama work for professionals working with adults at risk. This manual shows that by participating in play and drama people can make a difference to how they feel about themselves and the world around them. It is suitable for professionals working with adults who are vulnerable.

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Focusing on creative action and why it is important, this hands-on manual illustrates how adults can play and make a difference to how they feel about themselves and the world around them. Written for a variety of professionals, it gives a clear introduction to the application of play and drama work with many different client groups. It bears in mind that many adults feel nervous about drama and think that playing is childish.

Material is chosen sensitively to enable confidence and creativity building and the development of communication skills. These include 'finding your voice', 'lost for words' and 'who would I like to be?'. There are ideas for improvisation and movement as well as masks and myths. Cross-cultural perspectives are discussed together with boundaries for clinical groups.

The importance of the healing potential of artistic expression is addressed throughout Creative Play and Drama with Adults at Risk.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780863885358

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 1999

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Speechmark Publishing Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 390g

Pages: 212

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About the Author

Sue Jennings is a pioneer of Dramatherapy and the Playtherapy Method in the UK and abroad. She is pioneering the training and practice of play and playtherapy in institutions, and with children and families at risk in Transylvania, Romania. Sue is Consultant to the Department of Child Health, University of Exeter and works as a dramatherapist for the NHS in Somerset. She has written many books on working with both adults and children, including Creative Storytelling with Adults at Risk (2005), Creative Play with Children at Risk (2005), Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk (2004), Creative Drama in Groupwork (1986) and Role Play Cards for Social Skills (1989) all published by Speechmark.

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