What is it about?
This work demonstrates a drama therapy approach to dealing with personal trauma with a detainee housed in a failed carceral system in crisis. The therapeutic mask work provides freedom - through the expression of the participant's imagination and life experience - to transform and heal his family narrative.
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Why is it important?
There’s a constant need to develop creative arts therapy approaches that can provide meaningful experiences for detainees to offer hope. This work seeks to establish a therapeutic experience that reflects transformation for this detainee, and reveal our common humanity as we process this drama therapy family mask protocol as a participant and therapist.
Perspectives
I see working within this broken system as a moral imperative, as the impact of personal and systemic trauma on detainees is palpable. It's important to hear the voice of a detainee from inside a carceral system so we can better understand their perspective and how to provide interventions through the creative arts therapies.
Barbara Bornmann
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This page is a summary of: Drama Therapy Family Mask Protocol in a forensic setting: Participant and therapist experience, Drama Therapy Review, October 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/dtr_00111_7.
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