The purpose of this work is to study the effect of collective creation
dramatherapy on the job stress and the job satisfaction of the teachers
working for handicapped children. For that, we have performed 10 sessions
of collective creation dramatherapy: eight story creation and drama repetition
sessions, one rehearsal session, and one representation session for 10
childcare teachers of integrated handicapped children’s home. During the first
sessions, these subjects talk about the difficulties and problems in the
integrated classes and write the stories. Based on these stories and episodes,
the main dramatherapist rewrites the play script. After each session, the
discussion about the session programs was recorded. To evaluate the
research question, the questionnaires consisted of 38 questions on job stress
are used. The subjects respond to the questionnaire before and after this
collective creation dramatherapy. The result data of the questionnaire and the
three sub factors(job stress causes, job stress symptoms, and job stress
result) were analyzed using SPSS 18.0. As the results, the scores of the job
stress causes and the job stress symptoms are reduced after the collective
creation dramatherapy and this difference were statistically significant.
However, the job stress result factors were not significantly different before
and after the dramatherapy. Expanding and diversifying the research
subjects, this program might be considered as a base for collective creation
dramatherapy models.