Neuro-Dramatic-Play: Creative Interventions in Attachment-based Practice

In the Neuro-Dramatic-Play® Series, series editor Sue Jennings, founder of NDP, and other NDP practitioners aim to produce an array of books on a range of NDP topics. There is a growing literature on the arts and well-being, and in the recent years play has been increasingly included and recognized as an inclusive practice. The developing neuro-aesthetics discipline clearly demonstrates play as both an art form and a therapy, as well as a developmental process, and acknowledges the ways it can make an important contribution to healing, whatever the age! This series aims to be at the heart of this developing literature. A relatively recent new approach to teaching, parenting and therapy, NDP emphasises children, professional adults and parents in the creative healing process. It is an attachment-based intervention that uses play and drama to emphasise a combination of basic trust, security and ritual, with stimulation, exploration and risk. Enabling people to become more playful and to think ‘outside the box’, NDP in turn helps people to be more independent and self-reliant and affirms their identity and self-esteem.. It is an ideal approach for working with children who have been traumatised, neglected or abused. In a world where rapid changes with families, schools and the care system, the Series fills a great need for practical resources to address the well-being of children and adults.