TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT
24 months full-time
Year 1
In your first year of this Masters in dramatherapy you will go on a placement in one clinical area.
An on-campus supervision group will support you as you develop your skills using critical reflection, experiential techniques and analytic writing about your process and casework.
Alongside your work placements you will explore the theoretical framework for the clinical knowledge and understanding of both music therapy and dramatherapy and examine your role in securing and improving health and well-being for patients/clients.
A further campus-based module will help you develop practical techniques of dramatherapy and be able to integrate and apply these to different clinical situations. You will use movement, storytelling, voice work, object and role play skills in workshops and become familiar with therapeutic theatre traditions. You’ll learn to critically evaluate your own level of skills in relation to effective clinical practice.
Modules are subject to change and availability.
Assessment
You will demonstrate your learning in a number of ways, including essays, live presentations and practical tasks such as improvisation and performance. You will also be asked to undertake some self-analysis and reflection in discussion with your personal tutor.
Half-way through the course, your progress will be assessed by an examiner.
Your final piece of written work will be a Major Project which involves clinical evaluation. In the final oral assessment, you will present a piece of clinical work to two examiners, who will assess your overall clinical skills and readiness to practice.
One of our modules includes music therapy, and covers content from our Music Therapy MA course as well as this Dramatherapy MA.
On more generic subjects, such as psychoanalytic studies, psychiatry and psychology, you will work with our music therapy students; where techniques and approaches are specific to each profession you will be taught separately.
Core modules
- Clinical Placements and Experiential Development 1
- Music Therapy and Dramatherapy Multidisciplinary Theoretical Studies
- Dramatherapy Practice and Clinical Skills
Year 2
In Year 2 you will take on more advanced clinical work, learning how to practise as a dramatherapist or music therapist without discrimination.
Under placement managers supervisors, you will work independently and show an advanced level of evaluative clinical knowledge and skills.
Your work placements will either be in two different clinical areas, or one six-month placement in the same setting. You will show you understand fully the assessment and referral processes relating to casework and be able to work in a multidisciplinary team in community-based and other settings.
You will explore ethical considerations and issues of cultural diversity and practice, using evaluation methods as preparation for your own research.
The MA Therapies Major Project will involve some clinical or theoretical evaluation and research. You’ll receive a basic introduction to research methodology and be supported by tutors specialists in clinical and theoretical aspects of psychological therapies.
Modules are subject to change and availability.
Assessment
You will demonstrate your learning in a number of ways, including essays, live presentations and practical tasks such as improvisation and performance. You will also be asked to undertake some self-analysis and reflection in discussion with your personal tutor.
Half-way through the course, your progress will be assessed by an examiner.
Your final piece of written work will be a Major Project which involves clinical evaluation. In the final oral assessment, you will present a piece of clinical work to two examiners, who will assess your overall clinical skills and readiness to practice.
One of our modules includes music therapy, and covers content from our Music Therapy MA course as well as this Dramatherapy MA.
On more generic subjects, such as psychoanalytic studies, psychiatry and psychology, you will work with our music therapy students; where techniques and approaches are specific to each profession you will be taught separately.
Core modules
- Clinical Placements and Experiential Development 2
- MA Therapies Major Project
