PSYCHODRAMA WITH A CHILD'S SOCIAL ATOM

Abstract

This paper discusses psychodrama in Which the patients, in particular the child's, family members participate in the therapy. Our experience has included a wide variety of disturbances: bed-wetting, tics, aggressive destructive behavior, withdrawn autistic children, failures in school and the socially maladjusted child. The child's social atom includes all who 'people his life situation, either in acceptance, rejection or neutrality. The primary relationships extend to members of the family with whom the child generally lives: this means mother, father and siblings, in some cases, it may be grandparents or other members of the family.