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Dramatherapy has as its main focus the intentional use of healing aspects of drama and theatre as the therapeutic process. It is a method of working and playing that uses action methods to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth.
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At BADth we believe that Dramatherapy can be a powerful therapeutic force. It can facilitate and encourage creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth. Our objectives are:

  • To promote the advancement of Dramatherapy as a profession
  • To be the representational body for dramatherapists in the UK
  • To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public on the benefits of dramatherapy
  • To be an advocate for the establishment and maintenance of fair pay and conditions of service for dramatherapists
  • To forge links internationally
Latest News
AHP Career Progression Study (University of Leicester)
Posted On: 27 May 2026
Mariya Yeldhos, a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Leicester, is running an anonymous 10-minute online survey to investigate the key barriers and enablers to career advancement for Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) working within the NHS in England. The study has full ethical approval, and she is looking for Dramatherapists to participate to ensure our profession is accurately represented.
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Research Invitation: How Do You Use Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs)?
Posted On: 27 May 2026
How do you really feel about Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs)? Whether you find them invaluable in your clinical work, struggle with their limitations, or choose not to use them at all, your voice matters.
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Protect Our Future: The Fight for Advanced Training Pathways
Posted On: 06 May 2026
BADth and fellow Allied Health Professionals are raising an urgent alarm over shifting government policies that threaten to dismantle years of progress in dramatherapy apprenticeships. This article explores our joint formal challenge to proposed funding cuts that risk halting advanced practice pathways and undermining the future of the healthcare workforce.
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¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ ר Call for Evidence: Modern Service Framework for Frailty and Dementia Summary
Posted On: 28 April 2026
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ ר is seeking evidence on interventions and service models for frailty and dementia to inform a new national Modern Service Framework.
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AHP workforce Priority Setting Partnership
Posted On: 30 March 2026
Shape the future of AHP workforce research by voting for the topics that matter most to you.
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Opportunity to take part in a day-long workshop and contribute the story of your clinical academic journey. 
Posted On: 30 March 2026
Help UKRI celebrate health research by sharing your career journey through digital storytelling. (Open to Post-docs/final year PhDs).
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