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Effects of dance and movement therapy on physical ability, flexibility and psychological state for individuals under constant stress

Pedagogy of Physical Culture and Sports, 2022
Background and Study Aim. Dance and movement therapy defined as culturally creative, unique, but at the same time and a universal phenomenon encompassing bodily movements, bodily self – expression, feelings, stories, body interactions with self and ...
Julija Andrejeva, Asta Mockiene, Dainora Strazdauskaite, Monika Pociene, Grazina Sniepiene, Elvira Malysko, Natalja Istomina, Vaiva Hendrixson   +7 more
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The Effect of Dance and Movement Therapy on Balance and Depression of the Elderly Who Are Sick with Dementia

Reabilitacijos Mokslai: Slauga, Kineziterapija, Ergoterapija, 2020
The subject of the research: The effect of dance and movement therapy.The problem of the research: Years are going on and old people meet a problem that their gait changes, their balance becomes worse and the muscle power decreases.
Dovilė Štrimaitytė, Gražina Krutulytė, Kristina Žigienė   +2 more
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Benefits and challenges of tele-dance movement psychotherapy with children with autism and their parents

Digital Health, 2023
Dance movement psychotherapy can be physically and psychologically beneficial for children with autism spectrum disorder. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic required therapy to take place online.
Janet TN Moo, Rainbow TH Ho
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Dancing through neurocognitive changes: dance/movement therapy supporting caregivers and people living with Alzheimer's and other dementias [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Cecilia Fontanesi, Cecilia Fontanesi, Cecilia Fontanesi, Donna Newman-Bluestein   +3 more
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The Effect of Active Creation on Psychological Health: A Feasibility Study on (Therapeutic) Mechanisms

Behavioral Sciences, 2018
Creation is an important part of many interventions in creative arts therapies (art, music, dance, and drama therapy). This active part of art-making in arts therapies has not yet been closely investigated.
Gudrun Lange, Rainer Leonhart, Harald Gruber, Sabine C. Koch   +3 more
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Online structured dance/movement therapy reduces bodily detachment in depersonalization-derealization disorder.

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2023
BACKGROUND Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DDD) is a dissociative disorder encompassing pronounced disconnections from the self and from external reality.
L. Millman, E. Hunter, D. Terhune, Guido Orgs   +3 more
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The need for robust critique of arts and health research: Dance‐movement therapy, girls, and depression

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2023
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
Katarzyna Grebosz-Haring, L. Thun-Hohenstein, Anna K. Schuchter-Wiegand, A. Bathke, S. Clift   +4 more
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Dance movement therapy and women with breast cancer: The psychophysical impact of the empathic process

Psicooncologia, 2011
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, Judit Nierga, Casimiro Javierre   +2 more
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Circle Dance and Dance Therapy for the Talented Children with Disadvantages and Special Needs

Tánc és Nevelés, 2021
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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Outcome-Focused Dance Movement Therapy Assessment Enhanced by iPad App MARA

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
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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