Organization
Research Committee
Chair
Johannes Krall (Austria), hannes.krall@aau.at
The FEPTO Research Committee aims at enhancing research in all areas of professional practice in psychodrama. No matter if psychodrama is applied in education, adult training, social work, organisational counselling or psychotherapy research is vital for the quality of work and the further development of psychodrama in theory and practice.
From the very beginning of FEPTO research was seen as important for psychodrama. Research activities within the psychodrama community were conducted and coordinated by the chair of the committee.
In recent years the focus of the research committee has shifted towards bottom up research projects by psychodrama practitioners. In the last RC Meetings different research initiatives have been started. Results were presented and discussed in international conferences and research networks with universities were established.
- Goals of the Research Committee
Researchers, trainers and trainees in psychodrama, psychodrama practitioners are invited and supported to initiate, to participate, to support and to conduct research and to create social networks of practitioner researchers within the psychodrama community. Research attitudes, values, knowledge, skills have to be fostered as a basis for research activities. In detail the objectives of the FEPTO Research Committee are to…
– be a platform for exchange in psychodrama research,
– initiate and conduct research,
– to share research tools and procedures,
– train the psychodrama trainers in research skills,
– integrate research in psychodrama training,
– involve psychodrama training institutions in building a basis for research,
– link psychodrama research with research in related fields, e.g. counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, education.
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- Minimal Training Standards (MTS) for the integration of research in training
(1) Curriculum: min. of 20 hours for research in psychodrama learning outcome:
– To know, apply, analyse, discuss and criticise… qualitative / quantitative evaluation / research methods;
– To be able to write an evaluation/ research proposal and a to write a dissertation/ essay as part of the training
(2) Dissertation/ essay: min of 15000 words/30-40 pages
– Practice-oriented evaluation/ research based on theory, description of practice and on empirical data
Johannes Krall
Chair of FEPTO RC
hannes.krall@aau.at
- Research Committee study on what psychodramatic conceptualization of spontaneitymeans in everyday life
Hello, dear Psychodrama colleagues and friends:
FEPTO Research Committee conducts a study aiming to construct a new spontaneity scale that may prove useful for measuring one of the core concepts in psychodrama. To this end, we would like to build on the vast knowledge and expertise of as many psychodrama trainers as possible.
Therefore, you are kindly invited to complete a short online questionnaire (6-10 minutes) where you are asked to give several examples of what psychodramatic conceptualization of spontaneity means in everyday life. This is flowed by a set of brief demographic questions.
There are no right or wrong answers, all responses will be collected for the psychometric process of creating the items for the new spontaneity scale.
Please complete the questionnaire here no later than June, the 1st, 2023.
https://HaifaCATRC.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d6I6l60cJM6sEMS
FEPTO Research Committee thank you for your valuable contribution.
Kind regards,
Hod
Prof. Hod Orkibi
University of Haifa, Israel
horkibi@univ.haifa.ac.il
https://dandh.haifa.ac.il/
International FEPTO RC Meetings
FEPTO RC Meetings are held twice a year in different European countries. All interested people from research, practice and training in psychodrama are invited to participate. Everybody who has an interest to join a RC meeting or want to address a specific question regarding research in psychodrama can contact the chair of the FEPTO RC.
If you want to be our guest and to get to know our research activities or if you want to participate actively in psychodrama research you are very welcome to join us. Just send a mail with your interest to hannes.krall@aau.at
Johannes Krall and İnanç Sümbüloğlu
Co-Chairs of FEPTO Research Committee.
Scientific validation of Psychodrama
For the moment it is not necessary. Later on, when new research material of value can be added we can rewrite those 15 questions. The research committee should work on it. The Core Competencies – common to all psychotherapies – is what has been done, so far.
Note: Phase 1 of the Project was completed in July 2013 and can be found on the EAP website, the whole Project can be accessed via the link below.
Phase 2 of the Competencies Project: the Specific Competencies of the various Psychotherapy modalities.
Over and beyond these, each modality will have several competencies that are particular to that modality, and possibly to one or two other modalities ’near’ theirs: e.g. ‘Gestalt’ might have a competency of using the “empty chair”; TA might have a competency at looking at the different ‘level’s of interaction: parent, child, adult; etc.; Body Psychotherapy will have competencies regarding the use of
touch (for example). It is therefore important for each modality to identify the competencies that are “specific” to their modality.
Ideally, these competencies will be ’structured’ in one or another of the various “Domains” – see Competencies website, and will use a language similar to that in the project: e.g. Title of Competency: “This means that x psychotherapists are able to demonstrate that: – (they have the competency to …; they can … do this and that; etc.”)
Note: Additionally, some countries might – at present – require some ’Specific’ Competencies as well: i.e. if not a medical doctor, psychologist, psychiatrist, then a particular mental health training [instead of (or over and above) the ECP], so that they can demonstrate that they can …. do something specific: we are talking about ‘competencies’, rather than qualifications.
Judith Teszáry