Dramatherapy

Aims & Scope

Notes for Contributors Download Aims & Scope Dramatherapy ( DJ ) is the professional journal of the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) . Since its foundation in 1977, the journal has investigated a range of perspectives regarding theory, practice and research in the field of dramatherapy both nationally and internationally. For many years, it has been the only periodical on this topic all over the world, and a point of reference for quite a few generations of dramatherapists. From 2024 onwards (volume 45), DJ will be published as Diamond Open Access, with funding provided by BADth. It will not charge APCs or submission fees, and all content can be accessed via the Intellect Discover platform free of charge, under a CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND licence. Copyright on any article published in DJ is retained by the author(s), who grant Intellect a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Dramatherapy practice can vary according to the contexts in which it is applied. The journal encourages a diversity of approaches and theoretical frameworks. Contributions from international authors are significant in developing practitioners’ thinking and understanding, with a special regard to the applications of dramatherapy in new and emerging cultural contexts, which are developing worldwide. Dramatherapy has a proximity to many different disciplinary domains: theatre and performance, psychotherapy, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, cognitive sciences and literature, among others. In particular, theatre is considered one of the main roots of dramatherapy; contributions are welcome from both practitioners and scholars in theatre and performance, as well as in the various forms of applied theatre. The journal also encourages contributions from the above-mentioned fields that show connections with dramatherapy, and might throw new light in our understanding of its deep processes. Dramatherapy stands within the field of the creativ

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