Book chapter
Dance/Movement Therapy
Undergraduate Research in Dance, pp 103-111
2025
Abstract
Dance/movement therapy (DMT) is a creative arts therapy specialty discipline and a mind/body integrated approach to counseling and psychotherapy. Expressive and qualitative aspects of movement and dance are emphasized over functional aspects, with overall goals typically focused on psychological, emotional, social, and relational health and well-being. Dance/movement therapists combine verbal and non-verbal communication, and they build therapeutic relationships which provide a safe, supportive environment for exploration of life's challenges. This chapter offers a brief discussion of treatment foci, commonly used clinical methods, and purported therapeutic mechanisms of DMT. The author offers ideas for research inquiry suitable for undergraduate projects.
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Details
- Title
- Dance/Movement Therapy
- Creators
- Sharon W. Goodill
- Contributors
- Lynnette Young Overby (Editor)Jenny Olin Shanahan (Editor)Gregory Young (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Undergraduate Research in Dance, pp 103-111
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 2
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies; [Retired Faculty]
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85208874978
- Other Identifier
- 991021910599104721