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What's New (updated April, 2011)
Summary
- CSU Research Grant
- Video/DVD: Rehearsals for Growth: Couple Therapy
- Dates announced for Rehearsals for Growth training workshops
- Professional Workshops Recently Conducted by Dr. Wiener
- Workshops Scheduled to be Presented at Future Professional Conferences
- Academic Teaching of Action Approaches in Therapy
- Recent Publications
- New Projects
CSU Research Grant
For Academic year 2011-2012, Dr. Wiener has been awarded a CSU Research Grant, Assessing Validation in Non-Clinical Couples, which will investigate the correspondence between mutual validation in improvisation and marital satisfaction.For Academic year 2011-2012, Dr. Wiener has been awarded a CSU Research Grant, Assessing Validation in Non-Clinical Couples, which will investigate the correspondence between mutual validation in improvisation and marital satisfaction.
Video/DVD: Rehearsals for Growth: Couple Therapy
Based on a recently published case, this teaching tape, featuring Dr. Daniel Wiener as the therapist, demonstrates the course of RfG Couple Therapy over three sessions. In addition to a brief interview of Dr. Wiener by Professor Charlotte Ramseur, the case features several examples of RfG methods, interspersed with Dr. Wiener's observations of the couple's dynamics and the rationale for therapeutic choices. (103 minutes)
| $65 individual | $115 institutional |
Here is a four-minute excerpt:
Professional Workshops Recently Conducted by Dr. Wiener:
"Staging Enactments that Resolve Conflict in Couples." American Association for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Annual Conference, Clearwater, FL, April 2011.
w. Linden, S. B., Hudgins, K., Dayton, T. & Landis, H. "Psychodrama and Drama Therapy: Rivals or Partners?" American Association for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Annual Conference, Clearwater, FL, April 2011.
w. Linden, S. "Psychodrama and Drama Therapy: Rivals or Partners?" National Association for Drama Therapy Annual Conference, Evanston, IL, October 2010.
"Roads Chosen, Avoided and Unchosen: Role Hunger vs. Role Nausea." Developmental Transformations Annual Conference, New York, NY, April 2010.
w. Linden, S.B. "Psychodrama and Drama Therapy: Rivals or Partners?" American Association for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 2010.
w. Van Horn-Greene, B. and Schnee, G. "Home is Where the Heart Is: Three Drama Therapy Approaches to Family Conflict." National Association for Drama Therapy Annual Conference, White Plains, NY, November 2009.
w. Zaiser, J. "Rehearsals for Growth: A Drama Therapy of Relationships." National Association for Drama Therapy Annual Conference, White Plains, NY, November 2009.
Workshops Scheduled to be Presented at Future Professional Conferences:
w. Osborne, J. "Handling Hot Issues Without Getting Burned." National Association for Drama Therapy Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 11/11.
w. Linden, S.B. "Firing up Your Practice: Integrating Drama Therapy and Psychodrama." National Association for Drama Therapy Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 11/11.
Academic Teaching of Action Approaches in Therapy
"Action Methods in Family Therapy," a course developed by Dr. Dan Wiener for the Central Connecticut State University MFT Program (New Britain, CT), was again offered during the 2009 Spring and Summer Semesters.
"RfG – A Drama Therapy of Relationships," a workshop offered by Dr. Dan Wiener as part of Omega Transpersonal Theater's Drama Therapy Alternate Track Program (Boston, MA)
Recent Publications
Wiener, D.J. (2010). Dramatic Enactments in Family Therapy. MAMFT Newsletter, Issue XIX, 6-8.
Wiener, D. J. (2009). Foreword. In S. Snow & M. D'Amico (Eds.) Assessment in the Creative Arts Therapies. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
Wiener, D. J. & Ramseur, C.A. (in press). Utilizing Improvisational Action Methods in Conducting Substance Abuse Groups. Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry.
Wiener, D.J. (in press). Assessing interpersonal functioning in couples relationships using Rehearsals for Growth. In D.R. Johnson, S. Pendzik, and S. Snow (Eds.) Assessment in Drama Therapy. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
Wiener, D. J. (2009) Rehearsals for Growth: Drama therapy with couples. In D. R. Johnson & R. Emunah (Eds.) Current Approaches in Drama Therapy in North America (2nd Edition). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 355-373.
New Projects
A new page for this website, featuring applications of RfG to clinical cases by RfG Certified Therapists, with commentary by Dr. Dan Wiener, will be posted soon.
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