The need for robust critique of arts and health research: Dance‐movement therapy, girls, and depression [PDF]
We examine a highly cited randomized controlled trial on dance-movement therapy with adolescent girls with mild depression and examine its treatment in 14 evidence reviews and meta-analyses of dance research. We demonstrate substantial limitations in the
Schuchter‐Wiegand, Anna K. +4 more
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Dance movement psychotherapy practice in the UK:findings from the Arts Therapies Survey 2011 [PDF]
Arts therapies practice in the UK, due to its complexity, is rarely adequately described and what constitutes main features of the professions often remains unclear.
Karkou, Vicky, Zubala, Ania
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Dance Movement Therapy and Kathak in India
Developed in the 1940s America, Dance Movement Therapy is an innovative model that focuses on body movements, expressions, and gestures as helping factors to construe individual emotions and feelings. Originated in northern India and characterised by its
Alka Vishwakarma
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Objectives: To describe the therapeutic process and possible influence of mirror neurons in kinesthetic empathy using dance movement therapy for breast cancer. Method: Case study methodology was used.
Alicia Blázquez +2 more
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Dance and disability: Embracing difference, tensions and complexities [PDF]
In this paper I am particularly interested in unpacking the notion that dancers with a visible disability are both marginalised and hyper-visible. I refer to selected dance examples available on YouTube and consider these in relation to Whatley’s (2007 ...
Cheesman, Sue
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Outcome-Focused Dance Movement Therapy Assessment Enhanced by iPad App MARA
Healthcare and human services are increasingly required to demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency of their programs, with assessment and evaluation processes more regularly part of activity cycles.
Kim F. Dunphy, Tessa Hens
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Foundations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy Practice in Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities: 'when disabilities disappear' [PDF]
Introduction This article discusses the mode of practice co-constructed by two Dance Movement Psychotherapists for co-facilitating long-term Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) sessions with a closed group of adults in a Learning Disability day centre ...
Unkovich, Geoffery, Butte, Celine
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PROSPECTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION THE «EDUCATIONAL DANCE» APPROACH IN NEUROREHABILITATION
Dance movement therapy is a part of art therapy, which implements dance and movement to improve various aspects of a person’s daily functioning, improving his/her physical and emotional state.
A. A. E. Trofimova, T. V. Kharitonova
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Circle Dance and Dance Therapy for the Talented Children with Disadvantages and Special Needs
At the meeting points of different cultures, a unique quality is born. That is what we can experience when sacred round dance, dance therapy, and talent development meet and overlap.
Katalin Borbath
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Body Rhetorics and Kinesthetic Empathy in the Video Game Bound (2016)
Dance is found in every known human culture as part of religious, social and healing ceremonies. The increased interest in the role of dance in western psychology corresponds with the creation of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) founded by ...
Agata Waszkiewicz
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