1 Art therapy after stroke: evidence and a need for further research Frances Reynolds Introduction Long-term disabling conditions threaten a person’s identity and well-being in many ways, through loss of function and discomforting symptoms, changes in roles and occupations, altered social relationships, and a disquietening sense of liminality (Hammel, 2006). There is limited but increasing rese...

A drama manager guides a player through a story experience by modifying the experience in reaction to the player’s actions. Declarative optimization-based drama management (DODM) casts the drama-management problem as an optimization problem: The author declaratively specifies a set of plot points in a story, a set of actions the drama manager can take, and an evaluation function that rates a pa...

The aim of the study is to explore the effect of the creative drama method on pre-service classroom teachers’ writing skills and attitudes towards writing. Additionally, the views of the pre-service teachers concerning the creative drama method were also investigated in the study. The participants of the study were 24 pre-service teachers studying at Karadeniz Technical University Fatih Faculty...

Over the last 40 years, the widespread acceptance of the biomedical model of dementia has countered the suggestion that senility was an inevitable consequence of old age (Lyman, 1989). Advances in the understanding of the pathology and genetics of dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease, and the search for a biological cause and a biological treatment mean that research in the psychosocial aspect...

Television medical dramas sometimes depict medical professionalism and bioethical issues, but their nature and extent are unclear. The authors systematically analysed the bioethical and professionalism content of one season each of Grey's Anatomy and House M.D., two of the most popular current television medical dramas. The results indicate that these programmes are rife with powerful portrayal...

This paper presents an ontological approach to the domain of drama. After a description of the drama domain in a cross-cultural and media setting, we introduce the ontology Drammar. Drammar consists of two components, encoding respectively the conceptual model and the SWRL rules. The conceptual model, mainly grounding in AI theories, represents the major concepts of drama, such as agents, actio...

the therapeutic value of kids’ artistic activities has always attracted experts and medics’ attention. it has a lot of usages in obtaining peace of mind and health in children. art therapy is a new and organized way in solving social and mental problems and disorders that can lead to improvement, especially in children. school anxiety can be seen and reduced, in artistic activities, as a sign o...

This paper examines the main streams and players in the area of drama/theatre translation and highlights some of the issues involved in the translation of drama/theatre texts.

Drama is a relatively unexplored tool in academic science education. This paper addresses in what way the use of drama may allow science students to deepen their understanding of recent developments in the emerging and controversial field of neuroenhancement, by means of a case study approach. First, we emphasise the congruency between drama and science, notably the dramatic dimension of experi...

The paper explores that CHT contains at least three dialectical concepts and principles; (1) development as drama (dialectical contradiction) and the principle of dramatic construction of the personality, (2) the concept of mediating activity and the principle of qualitative transition and reorganisation and (3) the concept of perezhivanie and the principle of refraction. Rethinking the status ...