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Research Article

Italian adolescents’ perception of tele-psychodrama treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gianmarco Biancalania Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padova, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Hod Orkibib Drama & Health Science Lab, School of Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, HaifaIsrael;c Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, HaifaIsraelORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1498-7953View further author information
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Shoshi Keisarib Drama & Health Science Lab, School of Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, HaifaIsrael;c Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, HaifaIsraelORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1988-7601View further author information
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Maria Silvia Guglielmind School of Psychodrama of Treviso, Treviso, ItalyView further author information
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Giuseppe Bertagnae School of Psychodrama, Italian School of Biblical Psychodrama, Milan, ItalyView further author information
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Patrizia Meolaf Center for Studies of Psychodrama and Active Methods, Milan, ItalyView further author information
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Davide Viezzolia Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padova, ItalyView further author information
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Nicoletta Fincoa Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padova, ItalyView further author information
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Ines Testonia Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padova, Italy;c Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, HaifaIsraelView further author information
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Pages 1-14 | Received 22 May 2021, Accepted 26 Nov 2022, Published online: 06 Dec 2022
 
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ABSTRACT

Background

Psychodrama is an experiential group psychotherapy that is used to enhance adolescents’ wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the adaptation of this method to an online setting

Objective

This qualitative study investigated whether and how tele-psychodrama provides psychological support to adolescents, in order to better understand its strengths and weaknesses

Participants

14 adolescents from Northern and Central Italy

Method

14 interviews were conducted at the end of group tele-psychodrama treatment and were analysed with qualitative thematic analysis

Results

Three themes were identified: (1) contribution of tele-psychodrama to adolescents’ well-being; (2) implementation of psychodrama to the online setting; and (3) (the) shortcomings of tele-psychodrama

Conclusions

Despite the differences between online and in-person psychodrama, all the participants expressed their appreciation of group tele-psychodrama, which contributed to their overall psychological wellbeing and helped them process difficulties that emerged during the lockdowns.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Declarations of interest

The authors report no conflict of interest

Author contributions

Gianmarco Biancalani: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing; Hod Orkibi: Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing; Shoshi Keisari: Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing; Maria Silvia Guglielmin: Conceptualization, Methodology; Giuseppe Bertagna: Conceptualization, Methodology; Patrizia Meola: Conceptualization, Methodology; Davide Viezzoli: Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing - original draft; Nicoletta Finco: Data curation, Formal analysis, Software; Ines Testoni: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing - review & editing.

All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

Additional information

Funding

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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