Dance/Movement Therapy and the Older Adult Client: Healing Pathways to Resilience and Community
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Stepping In: My Experience of Embodied Power Through the Relational-Cultural Framework
AbstractThis qualitative embodied artistic inquiry self-study explored how I used my embodied power in an ethical and intentional way as a dance/movement therapist and illustrated how I experienced my embodied power as informed by relational-cultural theory and racial identity development theory. This led to an exploration of my racial identity as a White, second-year dance/movement therapy and counseling graduate student, who also identifies with other dominate cultural groups. Data were collected through five authentic movement sessions with a trained authentic movement practitioner. Data analysis took the form of creati...
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
The Tree of Life as a Metaphor for Grief in AIDS-Orphaned Adolescents
This article reports on research into using the Tree of Life metaphor as creative expressive arts in therapy to convey the grief stories of adolescent AIDS orphans. The study applied a qualitative arts-based research method for data collection. Employing a critical ethnographic design afforded attention to the study ’s 16 adolescent participants’ cultural context and how this context influenced participants’ sharing of their grief experiences. Discourse analysis was used as a data analysis method. Sharing images from the process along with research findings, the authors discuss how the group of adolescent s utilized ...
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Power of Touch: Working with Survivors of Sexual Abuse Within Dance/Movement Therapy
This article speaks to the importance of touch in working with a survivor of sexual abuse. Dance/movement therapy (DMT) understands the importance of integrating the body into psychotherapy. Dance/movement therapist ’s abilities to meet the individual where they are at somatically support their work with survivors in a touch model. This article, by reviewing existing literature and research in the field of the application of touch in the psychotherapeutic relationship, in combination with the research that st ates essential goals for survivors of sexual abuse within therapy, attempts to suggest ways in which DMT can enha...
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Couples Dance/Movement Therapy: Bringing a Theoretical Framework into Practice
AbstractRomantic relationships have a highly-charged nonverbal component making dance/movement therapy (DMT) an ideal treatment modality. While a handful of dance/movement therapists have written about work that explores romantic partnering and some dance/movement therapists offer therapy for couples, couples DMT remains a new theoretical frontier. As of 2017, no theoretical framework exists to guide therapeutic intervention in the relational dances of romantic partners. Borrowing from counseling and marriage and family therapy theories, integrated with DMT theories and supported by recent neuroscience, the authors propose...
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
A Remembrance of Linni Deihl
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
The Dance of Interaction: An Embodied Approach to Nonverbal Communication Training for Caregivers of People with Dementia
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Abstracts from the 2017 Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 52nd Annual American Dance Therapy Association Conference
AbstractThe Research and Practice Committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) has sponsored the research poster session at each annual conference for the past 21 years. The studies represented in the current abstracts from the 2017 Research and Thesis Poster Session of the 52nd Annual ADTA conference feature a wide range of scholarly works and thesis projects in current dance/movement therapy trends. The following 22 studies have been selected for their qu ality and contributions to dance/movement therapy research. (Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Marian Chace Foundation Lecture: Introduction to Dr. Robyn Flaum Cruz
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Introduction to 2017 Conference Keynote: Connection and Healing in Monstrous Times
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
A Fuller Whole: Book Review for the Whole Brain Child
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Dance/Movement Therapy: A Unique Response to the Opioid Crisis
AbstractIt is imperative that dance/movement therapists on inpatient psychiatric units recognize the gravity of our nation ’s opioid epidemic and take vital steps toward filling the treatment gap. Dance/movement therapists can enhance treatment linkage by keeping the issue on the radar, openly identifying substance use issues during DMT groups, proactively dialoguing in the role of liaison, and mobilizing treatment re sponse before the patient’s discharge. These steps may increase likelihood of treatment referrals upon discharge or release, and contribute to the healing of the nation’s opioid crisis. (Source: America...
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Editors ’ Note
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Mindfulness on the Go Cards (by Jan Chozen Bays, MD): One Dance/Movement Therapist ’s Review
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - June 1, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
A Remembrance of Linni Deihl
(Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy)
Source: American Journal of Dance Therapy - May 11, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
