Diploma Course In Psychodrama (DCP)
July 14, 2021 2023-03-08 6:49Diploma Course In Psychodrama (DCP)
1. Partners
Montfort College offers Post Graduate Programmes in Psychology at the Masters levels.
Vedadrama India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai is an Indian Psychodrama Training institute with training centers and groups at Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mangalore and Delhi. Psychodrama was invented by Dr. J L Moreno in the 1921. Since 2008 Prof. Dr. Becker-Ebel, the owner of PIB Germany and founder of Vedadrama India Pvt. Ltd. teaches Psychodrama. Since 2012 he integrated Indian cultural aspects in his teaching under the Name “Vedadrama”. 2022 Rashmi Datt, his senior co-trainer, took over.Vedadrama has some 12 certified trainers.
2. Course and Objectives
DCP is an online diploma course in psychodrama, 120 training hours, 24 modules plus practicals of 120 hours over ten months) is aimed at psychotherapists and counsellors.
After graduating in DCP in advanced studies the DCP students can go for a level 2 (again 240 hours and psychodramatherapy with groups) and a level 3 (400 hours practise under supervision) for CP (Psychodrama Director – certified practitioner in psychodrama, 880 training hours).
DCP has been proven to promote creativity and social skills and empathy. DCP is action based and enhances human interaction. This is how Psychodrama consolidates and extends its own counsellors’ role.
The DCP Group becomes a learning field of personal experience and professional reflection of one’s own experience of and in groups both at the participant level and in counselling/ group-psychotherapy. The experience of online learning is new, but has shown to be apt to have this experience too.
The three primary objectives of the international Diploma Course Psychodrama are:
- To support already partly skilled participants to deliver an enhanced quality communication and therapy, psychotherapy, and counselling in the sectors of general health, personality related issues and in working places
- To support the participants to fulfil the basic skills of psychodrama inclusive helping them to understand and prepare their roles in a setup, to deliver apt services.
- To support the participants to experience and reflect and later guide group processes of therapy groups and thus improve their therapeutic leadership skills.
3. Eligibility for admission to the Course
- A Bachelor’s Degree, in any discipline from a recognized University/College. Preference will be given to those with work experience in clinical, social, developmental and coaching settings.
- The student must work (or intent to work) in the field of psychotherapy and counselling
- The student has to have a sound mind set up (presently not under psycho-mental prescriptions), can have had psychotherapy himself/herself, but not during the time of the course.
- The student must be willing to entre self-exploration and feel comfortable with self-exploration within the learning group.
- Reservation of seats and other concessions for the S.C., S.T., M.B.C., B.C., and other special categories of candidates may be provided in accordance with the statutory provisions of the Govt. in force from time to time.
4. Medium of Instruction: English
5. Number of Seats
Eighteen Number of seats (18) out of which SC-1, ST-1 and Persons with Disability (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act (1995) – 1 should be reserved.
6. Duration of the Course
The course has thirty academic online modules.
- Module 1 to 6: (24 teaching hours): Introduction and Sociometry – live at
Bangalore: Friday to Sunday: 14, 15 &16 April (9.15am-5.15pm) - Module 7 to 12: (24 teaching hours): Role reverse and Doubling – Three weekends
(Sat/Sun) ONLINE (4-8pm / 12-4pm); 13 &14 May , 10 & 11 June, 8 & 9 July, - Module 13 to 18: (24 teaching hours): Stage, Protagonist Play, 1 to 1 setting – live at
Bangalore: 11, 12 &13 August LIVE - Module 19 to 24: (24 teaching hours): Surplus reality, application training: Three
weekends ONLINE: 9 & 10 September, 14 & 15 October, 16 &17 December Online - Modul 25 to 30: (24 teaching hours): live Exam 19,20 & 21 January 2024
If any (part) of the modules is missed, this module can be taken at other places /online out of offers of such courses with Vedadrama India as to reach the minimal attendance.
7. Examination
In the end of the whole course each participant gets an oral feedback of co-participants and trainer. There will be a short oral online exam (30 minutes). Prior to that, a short case study (max 5 pages) has to be handed in. The participation in the course and exam gives the right to continue for further studies for CP, which will be completed with oral and written exam after 4 years.
8. Attendance
A candidate has to secures not less than 80% of attendance to attain a diploma. (see above No. 6)
9. Course of Study
In addition to these 30 online /live modules of each 4 times hours (4 teaching hours plus break) there is a practical part of the study:
- 10 meetings of 5 teaching hours (4-time hours) of intervention and peer learning
- 50 teaching hours of individual learning (reading, preparation of a sociogram, genogram and others)
- 20 teaching hours of compiling a short case study.
10. Readings
Course Reading are provided
11. Conduct of Examination
There will be no formal written exam. The exam consists in the handing over of an apt case study and the short oral exam (30 minutes).
12. Fee
The consolidated fee for the Diploma Course in Psychodrama per student is Rs. 48,000 & GST (Rupees Forty eight thousand only). This to be paid as Bank transfer or Demand Draft drawn in Favour of “Sampurna Montfort College” only.
There will be a limited number of each six scholarship places for the students and Alumni of Montfort College.
13. Certificate /Affiliations
- The student gets a DCP Diploma issued by Montfort College jointly with the German PIB and the Indian Vedadrama India
- Vedadrama India(2022) is an educational / affiliated / institutional member of IAC, IAGP, ASGPP and ISPS.
- The German Partner PIB as accrediting partner of Vedadrama India is accredited with the local German Medical Council.
