Course Leader and Senior Lecturer, Dramatherapy


Room: Hel 073

Email: ditty.dokter@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 5088
International: +1223 363 271 ext. 5088

Ditty Dokter's research activity

Ditty is Course Leader for the MA Dramatherapy and has held previous posts as Course Leader for Dance Movement Therapy and Dramatherapy at the University of Hertfordshire and Roehampton University. Clinically she has worked over the last 30 years in a variety of settings with clients with learning disabilities, torture survivors/refugees and in adult and young people's psychiatry.

Interests

Ditty has researched areas relating to intercultural and evidence based arts therapies practice and has published widely on this and related subjects. Her edited books include Arts Therapies and Clients With Eating Disorders (Jessica Kingsley Pubs); Arts Therapies, Refugees and Migrants (Jessica Kingsley Pubs); Supervision of Dramatherapy (Routledge) and Dramatherapy and Destructiveness (Routledge). She has delivered papers and key notes on these areas at a variety of (inter)national conferences.

Her research includes a variety of issues concerning trauma in adult and childhood, inclusion and migration. She is especially interested in the relationship between the arts and therapy in intercultural practice.

Current professional activities

Ditty is head and professional lead arts psychotherapies at the Hertfordshire partnership NHS Foundation trust (adult and older people's psychiatry) in the other half of her working week. She is a member of the editorial board of Dramatherapy published by Routledge and member of the advisory boards of KENVAK (Netherlands) and ICRA (Imperial College London) arts therapies research centres. She is external examiner of the MA Dance Movement psychotherapy at Goldsmiths College, University of London and acts as regular external lecturer at a.o. Codarts, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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