Date of Award

Spring 5-5-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Major

Clinical Mental Health Counselling

First Advisor

Angelle V. Cook

Second Advisor

Daniel J. Wiener

Abstract

Couple therapy is an evolving field in the modern therapeutic landscape. With that evolution comes an opportunity to study the application of drama therapy with couples. Although there is limited evidence supporting the use of drama therapy with couples, there is no research on the use of Developmental Transformations (DvT), a play-based improvised form of drama therapy, with couples. As a first step in exploring this gap, this community engagement project invited two monogamous couples to engage in two separate brief DvT sessions. Given that this project was community-oriented rather than clinical, the focus of this capstone was self-reflective in nature. This self-reflection was conducted using journaling and artmaking techniques and analysis. Although the project gave way to important personal insights about DvT with couples, there were limitations to this project, primarily due to the dual relationship between the couples and the researcher. Further study on this topic is imperative to better understand the potential benefits of using DvT with couples.

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