A Research On Drama Therapy Being Devoted To University Emotion Control

Drama therapy is a creative art therapy which helps people to have a better life.It originated in the early 20 th century and developed gradually since then using some psychological elements like Empathy and Projection as its theoretical basis,theatrical performance as its means and methods.Owing to its character of creative and movable compared with traditional psychotherapy,drama therapy becomes very popular and developed rapidly around the world.As a special group in society,college students are in a transitional period.During this period,tremendous change will take place in their body and mind.They can no longer depend on their parents and have to learn to live by themselves.It's easy for them to have emotional problems under this condition.To help students spend the transitional period safely and grow healthily,schools need to introduce mental health education especially Emotion regulation education to improve students' mental health level.Therefore,this article tries to construct a suitable scheme by starting with emotion regulation strategies,using skills and methods of drama therapy and considering students' objective circumstance,then put it into practice.By analyzing the result of this experiment,we'll see if drama therapy could really help students manage their emotion and apply to college mental health education.It mainly adopts three methods in the experiment: Questionnaire,Case Study and Mathematical Statistics.Participants of this experiment are students which comes from “Drama therapy and Self-knowledge” common elective course and need to take the emotional intervention course for nearly eighteen weeks.By comparing their emotional condition before the course with the emotional condition after the course,here comes the result: it shows that students' emotional condition has improved a lot after they take the emotional intervention course.Theatrical performance which originated in ancient times is not only aesthetic and recreational,it's also an effective way of healing;The skills and methods of theatrical performance can not only help performers carry on artistic creation,but also help healthy people solve the problem existed in their body and mind.This new function also inspires us to look on theatrical performance from a further-open perspective and find its possibilities apart from traditional theatrical performance,explore theoretical basis and intervention model which could be applied to college student' emotion intervention course.As a psychological treatment,drama therapy can improve students' emotion regulation ability and mental health level effectively,it's a method of great potential for college mental health education.It's practical and positive to apply drama therapy to college mental construction field.We should try to apply drama therapy to courses like common elective course ?Boutique liberal education.