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Dramatherapy has as its main focus the intentional use of healing aspects of drama and theatre as the therapeutic process. It is a method of working and playing that uses action methods to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth.
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At BADth we believe that Dramatherapy can be a powerful therapeutic force. It can facilitate and encourage creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth. Our objectives are:

  • To promote the advancement of Dramatherapy as a profession
  • To be the representational body for dramatherapists in the UK
  • To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public on the benefits of dramatherapy
  • To be an advocate for the establishment and maintenance of fair pay and conditions of service for dramatherapists
  • To forge links internationally
Latest News
Spiral Creative Arts Therapies Symposium in Glasgow Mental Health Arts Week 2025
Posted On: 30 October 2025
This October Scotland-based dramatherapist Genevieve Smyth was invited to join a Symposium Panel exploring the gap between statutory and non-statutory mental health services for children and young people in Scotland, and how needs can best be met.
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Congratulations to dramatherapist Eleanor Melvin!
Posted On: 30 October 2025
BADth are thrilled to congratulate Research Committee member Eleanor Melvin (she/her) who recently became a PhD scholar with the prestigious Wellcome Trust's Mental Health & Neuroscience PhD programme for Healthcare Professionals.
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Service-users needed to contribute to future Allied Health Professions research
Posted On: 30 October 2025
Help us to develop the dramatherapy workforce by completing this short survey. Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University are currently undertaking an important project related to the Allied Health Professions workforce (staff and services), and they are requesting your help by completing their short survey.
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Join the launch webinar for Flying Start - NHS Education for Scotland's programme for newly qualified Allied Health Professionals
Posted On: 28 October 2025
Join the launch webinar for Flying Start - NHS Education for Scotland's programme for newly qualified Allied Health Professionals
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Be part of new editions of Drama as Therapy and Supervision of Dramatherapy
Posted On: 23 October 2025
The authorial and editorial teams Drama as therapy and Dramatherapy supervision invite dramatherapists to take part in a European Focus Group as part of worldwide focus group research to facilitate the voices of practitioners reflecting on how they go about their working practice.
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Transform your artistic practice at the 25th International Physical Theatre Laboratory
Posted On: 23 October 2025
Transform your artistic practice through intensive physical training & global exchange at the International Physical Theatre Laboratory (IPTL 2025) coming up this December (13th to 22nd) in Austria.
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