The Six-Key Model for Assessment and Intervention in Dramatherapy
Masterclass by Susana Pendzik
The Six-Key model is a dramatherapy-based integrative assessment method that can be applied in clinical practice as well as in research. This qualitative method is founded in the notion of dramatic reality, and furnishes us with six parameters for observation, providing practitioners with a useful tool to survey group and individual processes, assess progress, make effective interventions, and organize the material in a way that furthers drama therapy thinking. Based on the subjective observation by the dramatherapist, the model is "users friendly," helping dramatherapists to navigate complex therapeutic processes by signaling at specific keys where therapeutic interventions would be most effective.
This masterclass comprises a theoretical presentation, also featuring a short film based on a true case, showing a dramatized and compacted individual session, in which the Six-Key Model is being applied by a dramatherapist.
Susana Pendzik (PhD, RDT) is the Head of the Graduate Program in Drama Therapy at Tel Hai Academic College in Galilee, lecturing also at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the Dramatherapy Institute of Switzerland, among other international institutions. Susana is a Registered Drama Therapist at NADTA (North American Drama Therapy Association), founder and honorary member of the Swiss Dramatherapy Association, accredited supervisor by I.C.E.T. (Israeli Association of Creative and Expressive Therapies), international member of the BADTh (British Association of Dramatherapists), and representative of Israel at the European Federation of Dramatherapy. Susana conducts workshops worldwide, and is the author of many articles on drama therapy, a book for using action techniques with abused women, co-editor of the volume Assessment in Drama Therapy (2012), and of the forthcoming book The Self in Performance, along with Renee Emunah and David Johnson, published by Palgrave McMillan (2017).
