Arts and psychomotor therapies are often part of the multidisciplinary treatment for people diagnosed with Personality Disorders (PDs). Drama therapy is aimed at promoting emotion regulation and strengthening of interpersonal skills. The added value of drama therapy has not been sufficiently examined and available studies only provide indirect client reports. Hence, we focus on what people with PDs perceive as effects of drama therapy. This qualitative study followed the Grounded Theory Approach utilising indepth, semi-structured interviews in a natural drama therapy context. Interviews were held with 19 people diagnosed with PDs, who were purposefully sampled. They were recruited from five treatment centres, with five drama therapists involved. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using a three-step approach: open, axial, and selective coding. Open coding resulted in 93 codes. In the coding process, four overarching themes came to the fore: allowing playfulness and its inherent benefits, connecting the inner and outer emotional world, understanding of maladaptive coping styles, and intrapersonal and interpersonal behavior change. The perceived effects as reported by people diagnosed with PDs provide information about what drama therapy means to them, in their daily lives and which aspects of the treatment were most valuable to them. This study contributes to the necessary underpinning of drama therapy.

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戏剧治疗对人格障碍患者的感知效果：一项定性研究

艺术和精神运动疗法通常是对被诊断患有人格障碍 (PD) 的患者进行多学科治疗的一部分。戏剧治疗旨在促进情绪调节和加强人际交往能力。戏剧治疗的附加价值尚未得到充分检验，现有研究仅提供间接的客户报告。因此，我们关注的是帕金森病患者认为戏剧治疗的效果。这项定性研究遵循扎根理论方法，在自然戏剧治疗背景下利用深入的、半结构化的访谈。对 19 名被诊断患有 PD 的人进行了采访，这些人是有目的地抽样的。他们是从五个治疗中心招募的，其中有五名戏剧治疗师。采访内容被逐字转录并使用三步方法进行分析：开放式编码、轴向编码和选择性编码。开放编码产生了 93 个代码。在编码过程中，四个首要主题脱颖而出：允许玩耍及其固有的好处、连接内部和外部情感世界、理解适应不良的应对方式以及个人和人际行为的改变。被诊断为帕金森病的人报告的感知效果提供了关于戏剧治疗对他们在日常生活中意味着什么以及治疗的哪些方面对他们最有价值的信息。这项研究有助于为戏剧治疗提供必要的基础。