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Approaches to the Futures of Research (Based on the Conference Keynote,British Association of Dramatherapists Conference 2011,Measure for Measures,Researching,Re-Viewing and Re-Framing Dramatherapy in Practice)
This article, delivered in two parts, identifies and examines factors affecting the development of dramatherapy research. Drawing on qualitative research with Dramatherapists in a number of countries, it identifies three related challenges as a way of responding to the question, ‘What is the next developmental phase of dramatherapy research?’ The three challenges are: ‘impact’; ‘reviewing dramatherapy's relationship with qualitative and quantitative methodologies’; and ‘in depth: increasing the field's research capacity’.
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