People with intellectual disabilities experience a higher burden of chronic disease and mental health challenges than the general population, and have an increased risk of hospitalization and mortality. Due to these difficulties they have often been institutionalized for long periods of time and consequently excluded from society. Unfortunately validated psychological interventions, tailored to their preferences, understanding, strengths and needs often are excluded from treatment guidance. A dramatherapy manual incorporating storytelling and role-play as primary focus to the intervention, 'Which are universal accessible methods used to help people make sense of the worlds', was developed as a pathway towards determining an evaluation process and standardizing practice. Its impact within the world of arts therapies, particularly dramatherapy, is explored in this workshop. This workshop also acknowledges how the development of psychotherapy treatment manuals have reformed psychotherapy research, whilst provoking controversy around their function and value. As part of my PhD, by published works, the inner components, shared relationships and significant elements from across a collection of studies will be presented as a theoretical framework. Visually this framework is presented in a logic model as an intervention program with inputs and expected outcomes for group working. This psychosocial treatment model provides arts therapists with a manual which can be easily implemented/ facilitated into their practice enabling people with an intellectual disability to share their lived experiences of their disability through storytelling and performance.
