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Dancing Through Recovery: A Dance/movement Therapy Approach to the 12-step Recovery Model
Master of Arts (M.A.), Drexel University
Jun 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00001506
Abstract
This culminating project explores alternative approaches to the 12-step model of recovery and proposes dance/movement therapy informed movement explorations to accompany the step work. The literature review explores three alternative approaches to the 12-step model including mindfulness, secular, and feminist approaches. These alternative models are included to offer more inclusive, strengths-based, and culturally competent approaches to substance use treatment. Stemming from the research and literature, dance/movement therapy informed movement explorations were created to accompany each of the steps. The goal of the movement explorations is to deepen the step work by utilizing mind-body connectivity which is commonly ruptured during the process of addiction. Incorporating dance/movement therapy into addictions treatment can highlight themes of community support, self-inquiry, and emotional regulation on a body level, which are all themes included in the 12-step model. The author's intention is to add to the dialogue around dance/movement therapy and substance use treatment emphasizing the 12-step model of recovery, with hopes to increase accessibility to the creative arts therapies within this population.
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Details
- Title
- Dancing Through Recovery
- Creators
- Rachel Madeline Singer
- Contributors
- Dawn Morningstar (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- v, 46 pages
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies; College of Nursing and Health Professions; Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 991020220770304721