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Psychodrama and Learned Hopefulness
Over the past week, I had a chance to listen to this podcast from The Psychology Podcast.
Psychodrama is a therapeutic method that uses role-playing and other expressive techniques to help people explore their emotions and relationships.It is a 20th century development and one of many forms of non-traditional therapy. It is based on the idea that people can gain insight into their own behavior and emotions by acting out different roles and scenarios.In psychodrama sessions, individuals or groups take turns "playing" the protagonist in a particular scenario, while other group members take on various roles in the scenario. These roles are assigned based on the protagonist's perceptions of the people in their life. Through this process, individuals can explore their emotions, behaviors, and relationships in a safe and controlled environment.
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While this podcast mostly talks on using psychotherapy to process traumatic events in a patient, psychodrama can be used in a variety of settings, especially in educational psychology, as it can be a powerful tool for helping students to develop social and emotional skills, to understand and process their own emotions, and to improve their relationships with others.
Perfect Harmony Health:
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Perfect Harmony Health is all the rave with the true "harmony" between music therapy, educational psychology, and speech pathology. Check out their most recent TikTok, where not only the student is harmonizing and learning to vocalize certain vowels, but is ALSO learning about timing through using their adaptive device. The best part? It features Carly Rae Jempsen!
So what kind of therapy is being used here? Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a specialized form of music therapy that focuses on the use of music to improve cognitive, motor, and emotional functioning in individuals with neurological conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury and learning disabilities.
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NMT is based on the idea that music can have a powerful impact on the brain and nervous system and can be used to stimulate various areas of the brain to improve function. NMT sessions may include activities such as singing, playing instruments, movement to music, movement to MAKE music, and listening to music. It uses specific music interventions to improve cognitive, physical, emotional and social abilities.