Shifting the motivational discourse by means of positum-approach and psychodrama

Pages:525-527
Vitalii Klymchuk (Research Fellow in Institute of Social and Political Psychology, Kiev, Ukraine )

Positive psychotherapy is a psychodynamic humanistic resource-oriented conflict-centered and a transcultural approach, which was developed by Peseschkian. Psychodrama is an action method of psychotherapy that implies passing out of client’s inner world and its correction by the dramatic means. The description of integrating psychodrama-approach and positive psychotherapy in application to the problem of personal motivational changes (by the example of solution of the motivational conflict) is presented in this article. The understanding of motivational discourse, motivational conflicts, their types and manifestation on different levels were defined. Five-step model of work with actual motivational conflicts was depicted. The model implies following steps: 1) observation and distancing from conflict, 2) inventory of all sides of conflict, 3) situational encouragement of client to solution of the conflict; 4) verbalization of every step of conflict solution, 5) broadening of goals or deeper understanding what to do after conflict solution. The description of each step is accompanied by example of clinical practice.