Id:	56
Author:	Tania A Manners
Title:	Discovering the development of self-esteem and social skills in children with dyspraxia through dramatherapy
Award:	MA
Discipline:	Dramatherapy
Keyword:	Dyspraxia ; Dramatherapy
University_College:	University of Exeter
Country:	United Kingdom
Year:	2006
Language:	English
Abstract:	The purpose of this research is to discover the impact of group dramatherapy on self-esteem and social skills for two boys with dyspraxia. The children in this study experienced low self-esteem with poor communication abilities associated with initiation and development of friendships. There is currently a shortage of literature available on the effects dramatherapy has on children with dyspraxia. Therefore, this inductive research will contribute to the existing knowledge base. This research uses case study methodology. Three participants were invited to take part in six weekly group dramatherapy sessions and two cases were then selected for further study. The two cases were asked to take part in an interview session, one week after the sixth and final dramatherapy session. Each participant was interviewed alone. The interviews were videoed, audio taped and later transcribed. Each case was then studied in depth, supported by multiple sources of data to bring a holistic understanding to the study (Merriam, 1998, p204). Following analysis of each individual case a cross-case analysis was carried out. The two cases revealed both different and similar ways of perceiving the impact of group dramatherapy on their self-esteem and social skills. Changes were observed to occur and skills developed as themes emerging from the social interaction of the group were worked out through embodied, projective or role-play (Jennings, 2003.
Email:	tania@communi-gate.org
Date:	6/25/2007 3:16:20 PM

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