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You combine drama therapy courses with those in mental health counseling or couple and family therapy. See sample schedules integrating Drama Therapy and Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Couple and Family Therapy. It is recommended that you create your own sequence of courses before the middle of the second quarter. Consult with your adviser as needed.
There is room to be flexible in arranging your studies. There are no requirements to select a particular course sequence. Read more about Clinical Mental Health Counseling or Couple and Family Therapy.
Sample Courses
Family of Origin Systems and Drama Therapy
Introduces family of origin systems perspective for understanding and addressing issues of human development in the context of multigenerational family dynamics. Students examine their own development in terms of socio-cultural roots, family history and unresolved family conflicts through experiential, creative action methods and papers.
Introduction to Drama Therapy
Provides an introduction to the field of drama therapy and the theories and principles involved in its practice. An overview of the history of drama therapy, key drama therapy concepts and information on major drama therapy theorists and methods will be included in the course. Leading practitioners and their approaches are introduced. Drama therapy applications for diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and treatment are explored.
Multicultural Perspectives in Drama Therapy
Promotes an understanding and appreciation of cultural and ethnic differences among individuals, groups and families, and the impact of such differences on the theory and practice of drama therapy.
Improvisation and Creative Dramatics
Develops students' creative imagination, self-expression, self-knowledge and social relatedness through active participation in a variety of improvised dramatic activities.
Drama therapy applications for diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and treatment are explored.
Psychodrama
Provides theory and practice of psychodrama as a therapeutic tool with groups, families, couples and individuals. Examines the efficacy of various warm-ups and intervention techniques in relation to a variety of populations.
Creative Arts Therapy
Provides an overview of five creative art therapy modalities: drama, poetry/bibliotherapy, art, dance/movement and music and explores how each modality's history, theory and hands-on experience can be applied for age specific groups, primarily children through adolescents.
Special Populations in Drama Therapy
Examines the application of drama therapy with a variety of special populations which may include, but not limited to: at risk children and adolescents, developmentally disabled, trauma, returning veterans, and incarcerated persons.
Community-based Theater and Sociodrama
Provides theories and practices used for social change, more effective learning, and therapeutic integration with individual groups and families. The course examines Playback Theatre and other transformative drama such as Theater of the Oppressed Sociodrama, and Self-Revelatory Theatre.
Ethical Issues in Drama Therapy
Provides historical, philosophical and practical context for ethical, clinical and professional issues in drama therapy. Applies theory to clinical situations and introduces issues of confidentiality specific to drama therapy and ethical research practice.
Research and Assessment in Drama Therapy with Individuals and Families
Covers research literature, design and implementation in the drama therapy field. Applicable to individual clients or family clients. Students research, design and complete a literature review and gain approval to implement the research project.
Group Art Therapy
Integrates theoretical approaches to group counseling and emphasizes basic skills needed to prepare for leading a variety of client groups through creative experiential activities, lecture, and role play.
Internship: Clinical Mental Health Counseling/Drama Therapy
Students provide clinical services in settings that serve the mental health needs of individuals, children, groups, couples and families. During a minimum of four quarters, students must acquire 600 on-site hours, 300 of which must involve direct face-to-face client contact. There is a $20 fee each quarter for liability insurance.
Internship: Couple and Family Therapy/ Drama Therapy
Students provide clinical services in settings that serve the mental health needs of individuals, children, groups, couples and families. During a minimum of four quarters, students must acquire 500 hours of direct face-to-face client contact, 250 of which must be with couples or families, and 100 hours of supervision from an Antioch Approved Supervisor, of which 50 must involve direct observation.
Case Consultation: Couple and Family Therapy/Drama Therapy
Provides CFT/DT students the opportunity to receive on-campus consultation regarding their work at internship sites. Integrates theories with practices associated with drama therapy with the emphasis on such topics as individual and family assessment and ethical and professional issues.
Case Consultation: Clinical Mental Health Counseling/Drama Therapy
Provides CMHC/DT students the opportunity to receive on-campus consultation regarding their work at internship sites. Emphasis is given to integration of theory and practices associated with drama therapy, developing clinical competence, ethical and professional issues as well as assessment.
Master's Project
An individualized process designed mutually by the student and drama therapy faculty to integrate two years of study in the process, theory and practice of drama therapy, expanding scholarship in and making a contribution to the field of drama therapy. This process may include a self-revelatory performance, a theoretical paper or publishable article, a mini-research project or a documentary videotape.
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