For people struggling with mental health, especially those in addiction recovery, theater can mean something entirely different. As an Associate Professor and scholar of applied theater at Northeastern, Dani Snyder-Young has studied the impact of theater on people with substance abuse disorder to understand how it can support healing and personal transformation. Theater, like many expressive art forms, is an opportunity to process emotion outside of a typical client-patient relationship. And because of that, it brings something unique to the healing process.
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