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Dramatherapy with Adolescents and Parents

Introduction (the Workers) For two members of the small number of dramatherapists working on the Eastern seaboard of Australia, the challenge of being the only such professionals in Sydney working in the health system (myself) and the education system (Adrian Lania) is not the only one we face. We are also simultaneously challenged by, and privileged to work in, a socially and economically depressed area of Sydney, among its western suburbs. Adrian has a job as a school counsellor in a local high school, and I work in the acute and community facilities of the mental health component of a vast hospital area. Adrian and I met five years ago, when he came from Poland after qualifying as a psychologist and dramatherapist, to ‘have a look’ and see whether Australia was the place for him. I have lived in Australia since 1963, and trained at Hertfordshire in 1993. Last year, for the first time, Adrian (now an Australian citizen) assisted me on my Introduction to Dramatherapy course which I have been running most years since 1995. We have also given workshops for NECTA, the Network for Exploring Creativity in Therapy through the Arts, founded by Vivienne Miller thirty years ago after she met Sue Jennings and Dramatherapy in London.