Psychodrama in Educational and Supervisory Work With Specialists of Psychosocial Service of General Secondary Education Institutions
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article describes the prolonged training and supervisory work with specialists of the psychosocial service of secondary education institutions in Vinnytsia using psychodrama methods. The aim of the project was to increase the educational potential of psychological and pedagogical staff of educational institutions in the implementation of inclusive education as part of organisational and methodological work.The events also aimed to introduce the psychodrama method and promote it among school psychosocial service professionals. That is why both well-known and original techniques were used, a brief description of which is given in the article.Exercise 1: "Stigma and disability". The purpose of the exercise is to draw the attention of psychosocial service professionals to the problem of stigmatisation of attitudes towards people with disabilities in schools and society as a whole, and to find ecological means for psychocorrectional work with it.Exercise 2: "Control and connections". The exercise was carried out in four stages and consistently drew attention to the peculiarities of personal control over the situation, social interaction, and the ability to create working groups and be effective in them. Reflection on this exercise helped the participants to better understand their psychological boundaries in the projection. The exercise also draws psychologists' attention to their own professional identity. Exercise 3: "Experience, ranks, achievements, places and people".The projection of this exercise is aimed at exploring the psychologist's own professional experience. The exercise helps to understand one's own place in the professional circle and to receive mutual support.Exercise 4: "Hat of Emotions, Hat of Logic".The exercise is a self-study of the peculiarities of the organisation and the correlation between the work of one's own functions of logic and emotional response to events. This exercise helps to deeply reflect on the personality.Conclusions. The use of the psychodrama method can be an effective tool in supervisory and educational work in the professional circle of psychologists.
Author: Liliia Nemash
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4407239385