{"title":"Dance of the Soul: Integrating Spirituality and Religious Practices in Dance/Movement Therapy","authors":"Angela M Grayson, Charné Furcron, Tannis Hugill, Pamela Faith Lerman, Voniè Stillson, Marybeth Weinstock","doi":"10.1007/s10465-024-09405-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-024-09405-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since the formation of the Spirituality and Religion Affinity Group of the ADTA Multicultural and Diversity Committee (MDC), group members have been afforded the opportunity to share how this part of their identity shapes their dance/movement therapy practice. The similarities and differences in approaches and experiences of each author makes visible a part of their identities that was once hidden in their clinical practice. The areas of sacred healing space, self-care, the Feri tradition, Jewish practice, providing space, and sacredness of the body as they relate to spiritual/religious practice within clinical practice will be explored.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"46 2","pages":"124 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142413300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-patterning the Lover Dance: Chi for Two Awareness of Our Polyvagal Anatomy, “Biting/Snapping,” and Language","authors":"Dee Wagner, Mukti Jarvis, Fred Shelton","doi":"10.1007/s10465-024-09406-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-024-09406-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When lovers sense anxiousness in their bodies—and want to “bite each other’s heads off,” they might go to couples counseling for help with communication. Like parents trying to help siblings “use their words,” counselors try to help lovers talk. In couples dance/movement therapy, it is helpful to look at the physiology of language with awareness provided by the method called <i>Chi for Two</i>. <i>Chi for Two</i>—The Energetic Dance of Healthy Relationship was originated by a long-time dance/movement therapist. It synthesizes knowledge of nervous system functioning, infant development, and trauma patterning, which is passed down over generations, plus how the therapeutic relationship shifts attachment styles. Dance/movement therapists who have this knowledge can help lovers recognize when their interactions awaken unfinished infant/parent dances involving the “biting/snapping” rhythm from the Kestenberg Movement Profile system, adapted for <i>Chi for Two</i>. (The authors use the word “lovers” to name people who are engaging in mutually consensual sexual sharing with one another.) The biting/snapping rhythm is key in articulating language. When lovers can recognize what is happening in their bodies during their efforts to use words, they can learn to bring the bite/snap infant movement expressions to dance/movement therapists to work through those moves. When lovers work through the infant movement patterns with the dance/movement therapist in the presence of a romantic partner, but not acted out with the romantic partner, lovers can celebrate their partners’ bravery in doing their individual healing and relational re-patterning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"46 2","pages":"158 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142412402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problem Solving in Dance/Movement Therapy Research: Developing an Intervention Protocol for Adults Living with Treatment Resistant Depression","authors":"Neha Christopher","doi":"10.1007/s10465-024-09403-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-024-09403-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Dance/movement therapy (DMT) research requires creative and innovative thinking; this paper includes two parts demonstrating this. Part one describes and delves into the creative problem solving process undertaken over 2.5 years. Four main steps were followed towards developing an intervention session plan for a first-of-its-kind DMT study in treatment resistant depression: (i) Examining pre-existing knowledge: Reviewing insights gained from clinical practice and formal literature. (ii) Assessing the need for preliminary studies: This step demonstrates how to determine and navigate the potential need for preliminary studies in novel research. (iii) Integrating existing and new research: I discuss Watson’s (Watson, Sociological Research Online 25:66–83, 2020) braiding technique and how it may help integrate insights from steps one and two. (iv) Reviewing outputs: This includes examining the developed session plan by conducting a fidelity and biases check. Each step presents reflective questions that ultimately contributed towards protocol development. The questions listed may also be a beneficial guide to novice DMT researchers embarking on novel research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"46 2","pages":"167 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10465-024-09403-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142413409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction: The Reality of Vulnerable Research: Honoring Humanness Amid a Pandemic","authors":"Rebekka Dieterich-Hartwell, Rosie Davis Aubrey","doi":"10.1007/s10465-023-09397-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-023-09397-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"7 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141378529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine Sophia Castellanos-Montenegro, Margaret Hills de Zárate
{"title":"Exploring the Concept of Social Reconciliation Through the Experience of a Dance/Movement Therapy Group of Migrant Women in Spain","authors":"Catherine Sophia Castellanos-Montenegro, Margaret Hills de Zárate","doi":"10.1007/s10465-024-09402-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-024-09402-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the potential of Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) as a means of contributing to social reconciliation processes. The study, conducted through a group process with migrant women living in Spain, suggests that the relationships developed between participants in the DMT group reflect some of the key elements underpinning theories of social reconciliation. The elements of trust, empathy, and a willingness to coexist with others can be understood as the return to a sense of community and belonging. Furthermore, working with migrant women appeared as an opportunity to explore the concept of social reconciliation beyond national borders as an initial step to understanding this phenomenon through DMT. In summary, it is proposed that Dance Movement Therapy, oriented towards the configuration of new forms of relationship, has the potential to contribute to the modification of polarization frameworks in group and community relationships, particularly in areas affected by conflict or social marginalization experienced by migrants and refugees.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"46 2","pages":"105 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10465-024-09402-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142415006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aisha Bell Robinson, kyla marie Gilmore, Charla Weatherby
{"title":"Embodied Cultural Competence Framework: A Body-Based Method to Examine Cultural Identity Development and Bias","authors":"Aisha Bell Robinson, kyla marie Gilmore, Charla Weatherby","doi":"10.1007/s10465-024-09399-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-024-09399-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adopting an embodied approach to cultural competence provides a method for practitioners to engage the body’s knowledge in exploring identity and perceptions, while supporting advancement towards healthy and responsive relationships. The Embodied Cultural Competence Framework provides a concise method to explore past (history), present state, and develop future intentions related to bias and capacity for healthy and adaptive relating, and delivery of clinical interventions. This framework was developed by Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapists, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors. The framework uses concepts from dance/movement therapy theory related to the dimensional scale from the work of Rudolf Laban, as well as organizational psychologist Chris Argyris’s Ladder of Inference. Grounding the framework in embodied exploration and creating an understanding of thought processes produces an expanded capacity for self-awareness and yields an opportunity for exploring race, culture, and bias on a multitude of levels. With intentionality towards compassion, growth, and honoring body knowledge, this framework explores personal cultural constructs from an embodied perspective for furthering the development of cultural competence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"46 1","pages":"67 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140369578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}