DRAMATIC GAMES ABOUT SEXUALITY AT A PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE CENTER

ABSTRACT

Understanding workshops as one of the main forms of therapeutic intervention in Psychosocial Care Centers, the aim of this article was to reflect on their planning, development and evaluation process based on the experience of dramatic games about sexuality. Ten workshops were held, with 43 users. They were audio-recorded and transcribed. The thematic analysis produced two categories: “Challenges in facilitating the workshops” and “Assessments of participation.” The workshops were based on coconstruction and reflection on everyday life, responding to the ideas of deinstitutionalization. They produced new perceptions of the self and the other in the debate on sexuality, going beyond biomedical and essentialist views. This experience illustrates the feasibility and importance of dramatic games about sexuality at Psychosocial Care Centers.

KEYWORDS
Group Therapy; Psychodrama; Mental health; Sexuality