Healing and Liberation of Children through Brief Drama Therapy

Acceptance and Mirroring with the Mother-Figure

Akeyo Onoe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-93245-3 (ISBN)

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Onoe introduces a new approach in brief drama therapy for children called Improvisational Drama of Acceptance and Mirroring. The first to present a brief drama therapy approach developed in Asia, this book includes practical applications of IDAM and is a great tool for training therapists.

Onoe introduces a new approach in brief drama therapy for children called Improvisational Drama of Acceptance and Mirroring (IDAM). Developed in Japan, it can be used with children in large groups, making it a time and cost effective therapy tool for therapists to add to their toolkit.

IDAM is effective for practice in schools and communities where many children gather together, and a strength of the approach is the use of play acting a scene between the Mother played by the therapist, and a child. The most significant functions of the therapist are acceptance and mirroring. When a child is deeply accepted by the Mother figure in a drama even for a few minutes, they absorb this meaningful experience instantly, being liberated from oppression or prohibition and empowered with great joy. The book shows how effectively and profoundly this brief therapy helps children touch on their hidden issues, grow, and heal themselves creatively in a short time. Additionally, the book expounds how this approach can be effectively applied to adults who have attachment trauma from childhood.

This book is the first to present a brief drama therapy approach developed in Asia and though it focuses on mother-child relations in Japan, it is connected to all cultures in principle, and will help increase readers' cultural competency and humility. The content includes practical applications of IDAM and is a great tool for training therapists.

Akeyo Onoe, RDT, BCT is a pioneer of drama therapy in Japan and actively promotes it in clinical settings and for people's appreciation of life. She is a professor at Graduate School of Human Science of Ritsumeikan University and a lecturer at Tokyo University, and representative of Drama Therapy Education & Research Center in Japan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Foreword

Introduction

1. Theoretical Discussions regarding IDAM

2. Processes and Methods of Improvisational Drama of Acceptance and Mirroring

3. How do Children heal themselves through IDAM?

4. Therapist’s Solution of “conflicts” and Child’s Power to Heal Themself

5. Extended Application of IDAM to Adults

Epilogue

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.1.2026
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-93245-7 / 1032932457
ISBN-13	978-1-032-93245-3 / 9781032932453
Zustand	Neuware