Psychodrama and playback theatre for developing self-efficacy: Supporting Potential Development

The article introduces the training project Grundtvig called "Supporting Potential development" and discusses the tools used in the research and the results obtained. In the Ex-ante stage, various evaluations were carried out, including two multiple-choice questionnaires to identify levels of self-efficacy and spontaneity of the participants and an open-ended questionnaire to detect implicit theories of trainers. In the Ex-post phase, in addition to the multiple choice questionnaires, another questionnaire appropriately named “learning questionnaire” was administered to assess the knowledge acquired. In addition, the trainers were asked to answer two open ended questions concerning the technical aspects used that promoted the possible improvement in self-efficacy. It was found that the techniques used, namely psychodrama and playback theatre increased the perception of self-efficacy and levels of spontaneity.