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    Drama Therapy in a Lebanese Prison
    (2011) Daccache, Zeina
    This thesis is essentially an exploratory study that examined the effect of participation in a drama therapy program on the psychological well-being of an inmate sample in Roumieh prison, Lebanon. In conjunction with previous theoretical research on the topic of drama therapy, the study provided an analysis of the effect of this discipline on two aspects of the psychological well-being of the inmates: their relational capacities (relation with oneself and with other people) and their psychiatric symptoms. These two effects constitute the two hypotheses analyzed in this thesis, specifically: 1 – The participation in the drama therapy program improves the psychological well-being of the sample inmates in Roumieh prison by producing a change in their relation to oneself and to other people. 2 – The participation in the drama therapy program improves the psychological well-being of the sample inmates in Roumieh prison by effecting a reduction in their psychological distress and psychiatric disorders' symptoms. To test these hypotheses, two evaluating tools were used. The "I Am Poem", a sentence completion material was used as a projective tool to test the first hypothesis, and the "Brief Symptom Inventory" (BSI) a 53 items test intended to measure psychological distress and psychiatric disorders was used to test the second prediction. The results showed that the relational capacities of the inmates in Roumieh prison were improved as a function of their participation in the drama therapy program, whereas their psychiatric symptoms weren't considerably influenced by the program. The thesis attempted to explain these results according to the situational context and conditions in which the study was conducted namely the prison environment.