FEPTO – FEDERATION of EUROPEAN PSYCHODRAMA TRAINING ORGANISATIONS
FEPTO RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEETING
Roriz, Portugal, 3-5 October, 2009
Topic: Research in Psychodrama. International approaches and perspectives
Participants: Gabriela Moita; Gabriella Nicotra; Galabina Tarashoeva; Göran Högberg; Hannes Krall; José Luis Mesquita; Jutta Fürst
1. The expectations from the members presented were:
• To get clarification on how to fit pieces together; a kind of framework of what we can do: a planning or a suggestion of a research project;
• To get some ideas on how to develop a research project to be supervised in Glasgow;
• To face some steps and proceed in a structured way;
• To discuss research tools;
• To define lines for work in the future as a committee;
• To find a way how to present FEPTO in conferences – to collect voices to bring Rome.
2. We started from time line: What do we want to accomplish along this time line?
Roriz/Porto: finding a common basis for our work in the RC
Workshop (Elliott): What can be an appropriate focus for this Workshop?
FEPTO Gent: What are we going to present? How do we get informed FEPTO members about our process and results?
IAGP Rome: Are we going to have a presentation in Rome?
Two options were discussed:
- giving support to local research initiatives in each country/training institution;
- plan a research project.
3. Communications
1. Channels of communication are primarily between FEPTO-members. Secondarily, the channels of communication are among scientific, political and economical communities outside of FEPTO. In this meeting we focused on the internal communication.
2. The channels available to us are the newsletter, FEPTO-news, the FEPTO-webb and the annual FEPTO-meetings.
3. Information given: (A) basic knowledge about research in psychodrama by building an updated bibliography, (B) publication of plans and exchange by the FEPTO-webb of ideas, proposals, help, in order to develop projects; and (C) we recommend that all members of FEPTO should have the obligation to make the written work by the students graduating as psychodramatists available to the FEPTO-community. This would be done by submitting an abstract in English on the actual work (in some countries called “thesis”, “Abschloss-Arbeit” ). This abstract should also contain a contact-adress to the producer of the text.
4. Communication with the research-committee. Internal communication by mail on ideas as well as information of interest. For FEPTO members the possibility to consult the research committee on ideas concerning evaluation and research.
5. FEPTO-news. Regular reports.
6. FEPTO-meetings. Meeting of the research-committe. Presenting of a report. Arranging an open program on evaluation/research.
4.Training institutes
Small steps should be taken to start research within the training, e.g.:
Evaluation of students practice as a part of their training as a kind of self-evaluation.
The RC could
• provide tools for it (look at tools);
• share examples;
• make proposals for small research designs.
Building up a motivation for changing the attitude
• special conferences for trainers to learn about using research tools;
• courses to train the trainers to teach research;
• one delegate of a training institute at the annual meeting should take the responsibility for research issues and bring the information back to his/her institute.
5. Tools
When the group came to the discussion of the theme “What tools can be used for researching self evaluation on the practise of trainers and trainees?”, important questions came up: What are our needs? What are our aims?
To give some answers to this questions, the group decided that answers can only be fund for the first level and second level of research: What chances does PD methodology promote?; and, for a second level: What factors can promote this chances?
The tools discussed by the group to measure the chances promoted by PD on the first level of research, were some existent Scales (e.g. BSI, CORE, WHO-ten well-being index, SNI-Treadwell, Diagnostic Role-play Test, Social Atom Test) and Case Studies. To evaluate the factors that promote those chances, the second level of research, the group proposed the use of some specific Scales (e.g. S Factor). The combination of outcomes of these two levels can possibly give some answers on research on PD, proposed by the Research Committee.
6. Rome congress
We finally concentrated our energies in the possibility of communicating something about the work itself in the IAGP- Rome Congress, 2009. The issues raised were:
1. To consider the possibility of the RC to present itself in an international congress as on occasion for visibility;
2. To value the opportunity of expressing as a ”Research Group of FEPTO”;
3. To focus on the theme of “conflictuality” in the several institutions most specifically directed in research;
4. To reflect about the experience of the group as a model and stimulus, in what respects the possibility of overcoming divergences and conflicts;
5. To decide the need for a 3 hour workshop as the best methodology to communicate and evaluate the notion of conflictuality within research.
7. Closure: tasks and roles
Some tasks to next steps have been stressed:
• Organize next meeting (Gabriela Moita and Galabina);
• Gather research tools and insert them in the FEPTO website (Jutta and Göran);
• Organize Rome Congress workshop (Gabriella Nicotra and Hannes);
• Take care of the training in research inside FEPTO (collect information, organize courses, etc) – proposal for GA (Gabriela Moita).
