From the perspective of residents treating patients on the psychiatric ward of the Jewish General Hospital, psychodrama was of practical clinical value as an ancillary method for diagnosis, therapy and assessment of behavioural change. It was of value for a majority of the patients who participated actively, being most useful with the adolescent patients. The evaluation of psychodrama was largely contingent upon the therapists receiving feedback from the patients and the ward staff. Certain quantitative and qualitative differences in the patients' psychodramatic experience were linked to a positive therapist assessment of the value of psychodrama.
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