Psychodrama with children

Abstract

Psychodrama with children offers various forms of social pedagogical support for psychosocially impaired and biographically burdened children. The acting approach in the group, the possibility of symbolisation in role play and the joint creation in the group open up possibilities for expression and learning to expand one’s own repertoire of actions.The article presents psychodramatic work with social-emotionally stressed children. Changes in the children’s social interactions and their role developments in the course of the work are described and examined with the help of an accompanying practical research project. A case study is used to explain the psychodramatic work process and the subsequent analysis.