THE ROLE OF UNIFYING-EXPERIENTIAL CINEMATHERAPY (U.E.CT.) IN DEVELOPING CREATIVITY AND REDUCING DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN YOUNG PEOPLE

T.A. Sorina Daniela Dumitrache

Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2015

THE ROLE OF UNIFYING-EXPERIENTIAL CINEMATHERAPY (U.E.CT.) IN DEVELOPING CREATIVITY AND REDUCING DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN YOUNG PEOPLE

T. A. Sorina Daniela Dumitrache

Abstract :

Unifying-experiential cinematherapy (U.E.CT.) is an attractive technique that implies using motion pictures as a support in the process of personal development and as a catalyst for a creative and harmonious manifestation in order to ensure wellness, inner and external balance. The main goal of the paper is to build, implement and identify the effects of a cinematherapy-centered personal development program adapted to young participants� development needs and directed towards the behavioral optimization related to the enhancement of creativity and reduction of depressive tendencies. Methods used: Creativity Test, Beck Depression Inventory, Cinematherapy-centered personal development program. Our research hypothesis, according to which there are statistically significant differences regarding the creativity parameter and the depressive symptoms parameter as an effect of applying a cinematherapy-centered experiential personal development program, is confirmed. Cinematherapy helps the participants to discover themselves and the world, as well as to identify creative resources, overcome blockages and create healthy coping strategies by means of therapeutic guidance.