36-2 A Review of the Taiwanese Psychodrama Literature from 1968 to 2011: The Development and Transformation
This study reviewed the content and trends of the Taiwanese psychodrama literature published in the past 37 years. To conduct the literature review, psychodrama articles published in Taiwan were retrieved by database searching and personal acquisition. Retrieved articles were subsequently organized by publication dates and extracted for information, including article contents, study subjects, areas of application, and themes for application. Based on the extracted information for content analysis and article categorization, the researcher concluded that: (1) Theoretical Explanation, Practical Application and Academic Research constituted the three major categories of the Taiwanese psychodrama literature, and two thirds of all articles fell within the category of Practical Application, which was dominated by Personal Sharing. (2) Early psychodrama literature in Taiwan provided mostly Introduction to Basic Theory, but it later became more popular to write about Personal Sharing, Journal Articles, Applications of Psychodrama Concepts, Exploration of Techniques, Theoretical Interpretation and Combination of Approaches; however in recent years, an increase in master’s theses and doctorate dissertations was observed. (3) Applications of Psychodrama were found in five major arenas in Taiwan, developed in the chronological order of hospitals, campuses, communities, industries and the legal system. And (4) common themes for application included family and marriage, grief counseling, earthquake-related trauma and career counseling. The author also looked into the methodology and trends of academic research, and found that earlier work was mostly quantitative analysis on the effectiveness on psychiatric patients in hospitals, whereas recent work focused more on qualitative analysis on all aspects of psychodrama experiences with community members. Suggestions for future psychodrama research and development in Taiwan were discussed.
Keywords
group psychotherapy ； literature review ； psychodrama
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