METHOD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING BY 'PREVENTIVE DRAMA THERAPY' TECHNIQUE Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: psychological training by 'preventive drama therapy' technique to be given involves preparing a scenario of a dramatic situation related to addiction to psychoactive substances with the scenario containing general dramatic structural components: set-up, movement, onset of a conflict of internal psychological characteristics of the main characters or originated by dramatic externals, heights of the conflict. Actors are involves to stage the dramatic situation. Managing experts are selected by J. Keirsey psychological tests. According to the test results, a narrator is a logic introvert type, while a co-narrator is an intuitive extravert type who shall open the training and render an emotional support for its participants. During group discussion, the narrator performs verbal psychological impact with content re-framing, and follows a modified pattern of a structural-logic hierarchy of existential senses and values. Neuro-linguistic anchoring on positive emotions is used, while the biologically active point He-Gu on a participant's hand is treated with a first finger. It is followed by valuation descriptive arrangement of participant's opinions for the purpose of searching optimal decisions of detected personal problems of the training participants, and writing on the poster 'Existential Wisdom Tablet'. A variant of positive conflict resolution is modelled, and the participant is suggested to play one of the withdrawal variants with a drama therapy actor. The participant shall keep reproducing the situation until acquire satisfactory behavioural habit to reject a negative offer.

EFFECT: method provides reducing a high level of neurotisation, creating conditions for existential-humanistic process of self-actuating and development of more healthy personality by the participants of the preventive training.

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