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Volume 34, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0263-0672
  • E-ISSN: 2157-1430

Abstract

This article, delivered in two parts, identifies and examines factors affecting the development of dramatherapy research. Drawing on qualitative research with Dramatherapists in a number of countries, it identifies three related challenges as a way of responding to the question, ‘What is the next developmental phase of dramatherapy research?’ The three challenges are: ‘impact’; ‘reviewing dramatherapy’s relationship with qualitative and quantitative methodologies’; and ‘in depth: increasing the field’s research capacity’.

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