Adolescence and analytical psychodrama: textual analysis and short-term effects on psychiatric symptoms

Journal title GRUPPI
Author/s Michela Gatta, Federica Zanelli, Lara Del Col, Linda Fornaro, Maria Cristina Gatto Rotondo, Pier Antonio Battistella
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2015/2
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 61-83 File size 309 KB
DOI 10.3280/GRU2015-002006
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This contribution aims to carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of an analytic limited time psychodrama project with a homogeneous group of adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorders. The methodology involved a text analysis of the transcriptions of the session using the ATLAS.ti software and, at the same time, the statistical analysis of the scores of the SCL-90 test compared with those obtained from a homogeneous control group subjected to a brief individual psychodynamic orientation therapy. The objectives were the creation and subsequent validation of a grid of codes that could work as a grid of qualitative analysis, potentially useful for similar interventions, and the evaluation of therapeutic efficacy through several dimensions: starting from the considerations of process focused on the content and intra-session transactions in a micro-analytic level, to the verification of clinical indicators of outcome related to any change in symptoms.

Keywords: Adolescence, psychopathology, therapy group, analytical psychodrama, textual analysis, therapeutic efficacy

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Michela Gatta, Federica Zanelli, Lara Del Col, Linda Fornaro, Maria Cristina Gatto Rotondo, Pier Antonio Battistella, Adolescenza e psicodramma analitico: analisi testuale ed effetti a breve termine sui sintomi psichiatrici in "GRUPPI" 2/2015, pp 61-83, DOI: 10.3280/GRU2015-002006