This qualitative investigation into practice uses phenomenology and focuses on dramatherapists’ experiences of their adult clients’ stigma in relation to their mental health difficulties. For the purposes of this investigation, stigma is considered as a combination of public stigma and self-stigma. This study explores the dramatherapeutic core process of witnessing as a technique facilitated in the consideration of clients’ stigma related to their mental health. Nine dramatherapists participated in an online questionnaire, and the data was approached using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings show that dramatherapists can facilitate exploration of stigma related to mental health difficulties. The nine practitioners believed dramatherapy provided a safe space for both self-stigma and public stigma to be explored. Witnessing is identified as a significant core process. Dramatherapists experience a process of change and transformation in their clients following expression of stigma in relation to their mental health difficulties in therapy.

这项对实践的定性调查使用现象学，并且着重于戏剧治疗师对成年服务对象的心理健康困难方面的污名经历。为了本调查的目的，污名被视为公共污名和自我污名的结合。这项研究探讨了见证的戏剧治疗核心过程，它是一种考虑到客户心理健康相关污名的便利技术。九名戏剧治疗师参加了一个在线调查表，并使用解释性现象学分析法对数据进行了处理。研究结果表明，戏剧治疗师可以促进对与精神健康困难有关的污名的探索。九名从业者认为戏剧疗法为自我耻辱感和公众耻辱感提供了安全的探索空间。证人被认为是重要的核心程序。戏剧治疗师在面对与他们的心理健康困难有关的污名之后，经历着客户变化和转变的过程。