Welcome to BADth

Dramatherapy has as its main focus the intentional use of healing aspects of drama and theatre as the therapeutic process. It is a method of working and playing that uses action methods to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth.

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Our Key Objectives

At BADth we believe that Dramatherapy can be a powerful therapeutic force. It can facilitate and encourage creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth. Our objectives are:

To promote the advancement of Dramatherapy as a profession
To be the representational body for dramatherapists in the UK
To promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public on the benefits of dramatherapy
To be an advocate for the establishment and maintenance of fair pay and conditions of service for dramatherapists
To forge links internationally

Latest News

Creative Arts Supervision Training Diploma

Posted On: 06 October 2026

Registration is open for the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama's Creative Arts Supervision Training Diploma. The Creative Arts Supervision Diploma is a one year, part-time course (January to December) which offers experienced Arts therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, play therapists and dance movement therapists a training in creative, clinical supervision.

AHP support workers: your voice matters

Posted On: 28 September 2026

Ahead of AHP Support Workforce Awareness Week (26 to 30 October), the AHP Professional Body and Trade Union Support Worker Group is inviting Allied Health Profession (AHP) support workers from across the UK to complete a national survey. Your experiences and insights will help professional bodies and trade unions better understand the opportunities, challenges and development needs of the AHP support workforce. The findings will help inform future priorities for workforce support, education and career development across the AHP professions.

Help shape the future of CAHPR

Posted On: 23 September 2026

CAHPR is supported by 14 allied health professional bodies and exists to represent and grow AHP research, ensuring research is at the heart of AHP practice to optimise care. We are looking to establish new programmes of activity to reflect the needs of our community. We are interested in your opinion about the future work priorities and activities you think CAHPR should be engaged in. They have a short survey to collect your opinion.

Share your first-year experience with the HCPC

Posted On: 14 September 2026

If you graduated in 2025 and have now completed your first year in professional practice, the HCPC would like to hear from you. The Year in Registration Survey gathers feedback on the first-year experience of health and care professionals, helping identify ways to improve support for future learners and newly qualified registrants. The survey takes around 10 minutes to complete, all responses are anonymous, and participants will be entered into a draw to win a £100 Amazon voucher.

Call for Submissions: Creative Health Research Round-Up 2026

Posted On: 11 September 2026

The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) is calling for submissions to the Creative Health Research Round-Up 2026 — the second edition of a report that's fast becoming a go-to evidence resource for the sector. We welcome a broad range of outputs, including peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, practice reports and evaluations, and grey literature such as policy papers, toolkits, mapping outputs, strategies, and more.

Research Recruitment - Therapists who work with adults with severe/profound learning disabilities

Posted On: 04 September 2026

Choose from one of our different membership types and find out how you can benefit from a British Association of Dramatherapists membership.

Become part of the the professional organisation for Dramatherapists in the United Kingdom.

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