Psychodrama confirms political mission of diversity, equity and inclusion In 2020, humanity was challenged by the highly transmissible coronavirus respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Social distancing has also accentuated psychosocial difficulties. Another recent challenge was the awareness and mobilization triggered by the serious consequences of structural racism that led to the murder of George Floyd in the United States. Issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have been gaining increasing visibility and strengthened an important global movement to transform the course of history and society. Due to its responsibility for scientific dissemination, in
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Revista Brasileira de Psicodrama volume 29, número 1, 2021
The second century of psychodrama The birth of psychodrama dates to the first day of April, in 1921, when Jacob Levy Moreno directed the first public psychodrama to replace the current government: he invited someone from the audience to sit on the armchair on the stage of the Komoedien Haus, a dramatic theater in Vienna, Austria, symbolizing the throne of a king (Guimarães, 2020). It turns 100 years old, a centenary for implementing a new methodology for working with groups and people, initially in the United States, and then disseminated around the world. Getting to the end of this century,
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Transformative psychodrama in therapeutic change: guidelines and recommendations
In this chapter, the authors present some aspects of clinical practice related to therapeutic change – the physiological basis of the mental world and the relational dimension of Psychodrama, the therapeutic relationship and the mechanism of affect self-regulation, the dramatic context and operation of therapeutic mechanisms, and neuroplasticity and neuropsychological integration – from a perspective of the evidence brought by neuroscience. Hug, E., & H. J. Fleury. (2008). Transformative psychodrama in therapeutic change: guidelines and recommendations. In H. J. Fleury, G. S. Khouri, & E. Hug (Orgs.). Psychodrama and neuroscience (pp. 211-236). São Paulo, SP: Ágora.
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The socio-educational time limited group intervention
Time limited interventions have shown an increasing trend of application in various contexts. In public health, groups with more therapeutic function are predominant. In education and organizations, however, psychoeducational or personal and/or group development prevails. They comply with new health paradigms, which seek better living conditions, using all available material, cultural, social and psychological resources. In this chapter, some basic guidelines for this modality of care are presented, aiming to maximum benefits with the lowest investment, financial and psychological. Fleury, H. J. (2008) The socio-educational time limited group intervention. In M. M. Marra, & H. J. Fleury (Orgs.). Groups: socio-educational
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The concept of the co-unconscious in Moreno’s Psychodrama
Fleury, H. J., & Knobel, A. M. (2011). The concept of the co-unconscious in Moreno’s Psychodrama. In E. Hopper, & H. Weinberg (Orgs.). The social unconscious in persons, groups and societies (Vol. 1: Mainly Theory, pp. 23-24). Londres, UK: Karnac Books. This text, written in co-authorship with Anna Maria Knobel, addresses what characterizes Moreno’s co-conscious and co-unconscious states. It presents Moreno’ few texts about the concept of the co-unconscious and discusses how it is used in Psychodrama, based on contributions of some contemporary psychodramatists. Download PDF
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Group dynamic and its laws
Brazilian Portuguese version of the CORE-OM: cross-cultural adaptation of an instrument to assess the efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy
Santana, Márcia Rosane Moreira; da Silva, Marília Marques; de Moraes, Danielle Souza; Fukuda, Cláudia Cristina; Freitas, Lucia Helena; Ramos, Maria Eveline Cascardo; Fleury, Heloísa Junqueira; Evans, Chris. Trends Psychiatry Psychother; 37(4): 227-31, 2015 Oct-Dec. Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26689392 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: The Clinical Outcome in Routine Evaluation – Outcome Measurement (CORE-OM) was developed in the 1990s, with the aim of assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of mental health treatments. OBJECTIVE: To adapt the CORE-OM for use in the Brazilian population. METHOD: The instrument was translated and adapted based on the international protocol developed by the CORE System Trust which contains seven steps: translation, semantic equivalence analysis, synthesis of the translated versions, pre-testing in
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