Creative Drama for Emotional Support: Activities and Exercises for Use

Using drama in the classroom is an effective way of supporting a child's social and emotional development. This book details how drama can provide appropriate avenues for dealing with the issues that affect children and provides a wealth of captivating drama-based activities that will help the child to overcome their problems.

Using drama in the classroom is an effective way of supporting a child's social and emotional development. This book offers a wide variety of drama activities designed to provide children with a creative outlet to overcome emotional and behavioural problems.

Foreword by Sylvia Wheadon. Preface. Why Drama? How to Use this Book. What this Book Covers. What this Book Does Not Cover. 1. Introduction. 1.1. What are the Issues? 1.2. How Can we Recognize the Issues? 1.3. What Can we do About the Issues? 2. The Activities. 2.1. What to do at the Beginning of a Session. 2.2. The Issues, Behaviours and Supporting Activities. 2.2.1. Abuse. 2.2.2. Anger. 2.2.3. Anxiety. 2.2.4. Attachment. 2.2.5. Bereavement. 2.2.6. Bullying. 2.2.7. Change or Transition. 2.2.8. Compulsive Lying. 2.2.9. Depression. 2.2.10. Lack of Self-Esteem/Confidence. 2.2.11. Learnt Behaviour. 2.2.12. Neglect. 2.2.13. Nightmares. 2.2.14. Parental Separation. 2.2.15. Sibling Rivalry. 2.2.16. Socially Inappropriate Behaviour. 2.2.17. Speech Problems. 2.2.18. Trauma and Shock. 2.3. What to do at the End of a Session. Appendices. Group Bonding Games. Index of Issues and Supporting Activities. References. Useful Resources and Further Reading.