Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry

ABSTRACT. The problem of male violence against women has affected the lives of many women since ancient times. Women are victims of child sexual abuse, date rape, marital assault, marital rape, and sexual harassment. In this article, the author describes...

ABSTRACT. The author considers sociometric explorations that, at some point, require each group member to share information with every other group member in sequence. In this sharing phase, a facilitator usually directs the group to form new pairs...

ABSTRACT. The author examines J. L. Moreno's theory of spontaneity-creativity in light of recent empirical data reported in 3 studies using the Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI) and the Spontaneity Deficit Inventory (SDI; A. Christofororu &...

ABSTRACT. The authors studied the construct validity and reliability of a revised version of the Spontaneity Assessment Inventory, the SAI-R. Compared with the original version of the inventory (D. A. Kipper & J. Hundal, 2005) the revised version...

This pithy volume is a treasure trove of the thoughts of J. L. Moreno just as he stood on the cusp of originating psychodrama. It contains some of Moreno's most famous utterances and much of his bedrock philosophy. I initially drafted this essay to...

ABSTRACT. The author applies a working knowledge of Chaos Theory (ChT), provided in Remer (2005a), to Morenean theory. He examines the links and parallels between ChT and Morenean subtheories--enactment (psychodramatic), role, sociometry, social atom,...

ABSTRACT. The authors describe a model of psychotherapy designed to treat people who have intellectual disabilities in addition to psychiatric disorders. The model, termed interactive-behavioral therapy, represents a modification of standard techniques...

ABSTRACT. The authors present a Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM) case study, illustrating the healing process of a protagonist working through emotional pain associated with a breakdown in her relationship with her daughter. TSM is a form of psychodrama...

ABSTRACT. The authors examined the reliability and construct validity of two original inventories, the Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI) and the Spontaneity Deficit Inventory (SDI). They administered the 2 inventories, along with the State-Trait...

"The Body Dialogue" is an action technique in which the therapist uses role reversal to build a bridge of empathy between the body and the self. The director facilitates a conversation between the body and the self in an attempt to repair the bridge...

Those who cling to tradition are often more unfaithful to their core values than those who give way to the new. Until now, the journal has contained only reviews of books to help readers keep abreast of current developments in the psychodrama field....

In the group psychotherapy literature, there is a scarcity of practical applications of group action techniques with children and adolescents. Articles in this special issue, designed to alleviate the scarcity, focus on children and adolescents within...

ABSTRACT. The case study concerns issues in a 4th grade public school classroom in Toronto, Canada, where certain children were being excluded, placed in an unpopular subgroup based on physical attributes (hair color, weight, size, or skin color),...

ABSTRACT. Conducting psychodrama groups for children in an elementary school setting are extremely challenging because the interpersonal issues that emerge are complex and the institutional guidelines are limiting. The author recounts experiences with...

ABSTRACT. In this article, the author explores the use of sociodrama to help educational communities investigate and deal with bullying behaviors. The contents include using trained youth auxiliaries to support the sociodramatic process; exploring...

ABSTRACT. In this article, the author portrays the judicious use of the psychodrama method with four young people. The author uses a role theory framework, sociometry, and psychodrama in her brief psychotherapeutic work of 1 to 6 sessions with young...

ABSTRACT: The author describes a model interview in which the participants perform the steps of a successful encounter aloud. A soliloquy about some internal awareness in one member of the couple develops a warm-up to intentional communication. His...

ABSTRACT. The authors explored the theory that spontaneity and nonspontaneity represent two separate continua rather than opposite states of mind by means of a newly designed Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI) and Spontaneity Deficit Inventory...

ABSTRACT. Individuals and groups are dynamic systems that generate patterns of behavior, thoughts, feelings, and interactions. Chaos Theory (ChT), based on a mathematical approach to nonlinear, nonindependent modeling, addresses these patterns. ChT...

When, in the first half of the 20th century, J. L. Moreno proposed the structure of traditional psychodrama, it pertained, primarily, to the composition of the individual treatment session. Moreno (1964) described the individual psychodrama session...

ABSTRACT. In couples therapy, the therapist often finds it difficult to shift to a more productive process. Experiential techniques can break the destructive pattern and introduce new, more effective ways of communicating. In this article, the author...

ABSTRACT. In this article, the authors describe a method in which cotherapists work with those in relationships, mainly couples, using psychodrama methods and Bowen therapy. They include vignettes taken from 5 sessions and discuss the context of each...

ABSTRACT. Action methods, the therapist-initiated tasks that engage clients in physical activity and in taking on dramatic roles, are used in a number of marriage and family therapy approaches. In this review article, the authors present a wide range...

ABSTRACT. J. L. Moreno's vision, which sprang from his deeper philosophical intuitions about the essentially creative nature of the Godhead, was influenced in part by his study as a young man of Kabbalah. Moreno derived his notions of spontaneity from...

ABSTRACT. This article is an adaptation of a chapter from the author's book, The Living Stage: A Step by Step Guide to Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Experiential Group Therapy (Dayton, 2005). The author proposes the use of psychodrama to help clients...

Within the broad spectrum of the creative arts therapies, which include music, art, dance, and drama, there are many possibilities for therapeutic applications. All clients who seek therapy have different needs and backgrounds and different propensities...

In this study, the author reports his investigation of the effects of psychodrama by quantitative methods. Twelve adults voluntarily participated in psychodrama sessions directed by the researcher and 3 other directors. They administered Yalom's Therapeutic...

In this article, the author reviews the historical interface between behavior therapies and psychodrama, noting their mutually enhancing elements. She proposes an integration of those elements as a vehicle for providing brief, yet intensive therapy...

The authors selected 34 case illustrations of psychodrama for a review of the characteristics of that intervention modality. From the data, they concluded that, in general, the practice is consistent with the theoretical model. The main features of...

For a long-time, psychodrama has been viewed as a "fringe" therapy, even though clinicians and counselors of various theoretical orientations have eagerly adopted role playing, a pivotal psychodramatic concept, for individual and traditional group...

ABSTRACT. In this article, the authors combine psychodrama and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques in applied group settings. They illustrate the application of some cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques that they found helpful in the 3...

ABSTRACT. The author of this case study describes the use of an adaptation of role-playing in cognitive therapy with two adolescent sex-abuse survivors who were treated in individual and conjoint sessions. Each girl had been sexually abused by a male...

ABSTRACT. Traditional cognitive therapy (CT) focuses on identifying and modifying patients' distorted cognitions. Patients often find that they have overgeneralized the severity and pervasiveness of their difficulties, and CT helps them to reassess...

ABSTRACT. In this article, the author describes the Cognitive Double, an original role-enactment technique that combines the procedure of cognitive restructuring (cognitive therapy) with the psychodramatic double. All group members need to be taught...