{"title":"Kossak, M. (2021). Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy (2nd ed.). Charles C. Thomas","authors":"Jessica Young","doi":"10.1007/s10465-022-09364-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-022-09364-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"44 1","pages":"107 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46070928","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}
Patricia P. Capello, Radwa Said Abdelazim Elfeqi, Terje Kaldur, Mari Mägi, Kaire Bachmann, Ulrike Morel, Nele Maipuu, Hilda Wengrower, Selena Coburn, Dugan Coburn, Jan McConnell, Deon Nathan, Grace Ho, Zeynep Catay, Kayla Oosaseun Jewette
{"title":"The 2021 International Panel: Dance of the Ancient Healers: How Modern-day Dance/Movement Therapy Practices Have Evolved from the Wisdom of the Past","authors":"Patricia P. Capello, Radwa Said Abdelazim Elfeqi, Terje Kaldur, Mari Mägi, Kaire Bachmann, Ulrike Morel, Nele Maipuu, Hilda Wengrower, Selena Coburn, Dugan Coburn, Jan McConnell, Deon Nathan, Grace Ho, Zeynep Catay, Kayla Oosaseun Jewette","doi":"10.1007/s10465-022-09363-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-022-09363-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The 26th ADTA International Panel featured dance/movement therapists from the global community who described and demonstrated the healing dances that are part of their countries spiritual, cultural, and historical expression. Panelists contributed a verbal description along with videos incorporating music, rhythm, dance, and movement that represented the ways in which the ancient dance of their cultural ancestors have influenced their modern-day practice as dance/movement therapists. The following are abridged versions of the panel presentations which have been adapted to provide an overview of the panel. The complete transcripts with references and links to accompanying videos can be found by accessing the 2021 ADTA Conference Proceedings via the American Dance Therapy Association.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"44 1","pages":"93 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44406775","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":"On the Authentic Movement Model: A Space for Creation—A Place To Be","authors":"Yael Barkai","doi":"10.1007/s10465-022-09354-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-022-09354-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Authentic Movement (AM) Model involves one or more people moving in the presence of one or more witnesses, whose presence is an integral part of the therapeutic process. After the development of AM in America, the AM model was introduced to Israel and further developed during the 1990s. The AM model is mainly used in group settings, with the model being taught in a compulsory course in programs training dance/movement therapists. While several qualitative studies have explored the significance of these courses for the participants, no large-scale quantitative study had previously been conducted assessing the meaningfulness of these courses. The purpose of this study was, therefore to examine participants’ perceptions of the significance of AM courses to their personal and professional lives, using a quantitative methodology. This study indicates that over 85% of participants in the study who had experienced at least one of various of the AM courses available in Israel believe that all students training as dance/movement therapists should participate in AM courses. Furthermore, the majority of participants in the study who had experienced AM courses indicated that being a witness as well as moving in front of witnesses was a highly significant experience for them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"44 1","pages":"4 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50445223","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":"On the Authentic Movement Model: A Space for Creation—A Place To Be","authors":"Yael Barkai","doi":"10.1007/s10465-022-09354-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-022-09354-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"44 1","pages":"4 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52291765","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":"Message to Our Readers","authors":"Angela M. Grayson","doi":"10.1007/s10465-022-09366-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-022-09366-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"44 1","pages":"112 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52292169","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":"A Case for Playful Engagement: Synchrony and Interaction Quality During Mirroring in ASD. Conceptual Framework and Case Study","authors":"Elizabeth Manders, Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs","doi":"10.1007/s10465-022-09359-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-022-09359-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The social challenges in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can present as qualitative differences in interactions that make individuals on the autism spectrum appear less engaged with others. Limited interactional synchrony and other nonverbal movement patterns may contribute to these qualitative differences. This article uses the case of Hans, an adult on the autism spectrum, to describe patterns of synchrony and interaction quality during mirroring activities in dance/movement therapy. Raters scored videos of Hans and his partners on <i>affective engagement</i>, <i>flow of the interaction</i>, and interpersonal <i>synchrony.</i> They also qualitatively described his movements and interactions. Hans consistently participated in mirroring, but showed different patterns of attention and engagement when leading, following, interacting, or dancing in an open-ended dance. Hans was able to move in synchrony with partners, showed positive affect, and increased his movement repertoire by returning to others’ movements in later sessions. He was the most engaged when following a playful movement theme with a dance/movement therapy student partner. His affective engagement increased, but only in the less structured open-ended dance and only across the five sessions with this same dance/movement therapy student partner, and not when the sessions with his other partners, including others on the autism spectrum, were included. This points to a potential need to have dance/movement therapists model developing a movement relationship using flexible and playful contexts to emotionally engage the individual and reflect the complexity of everyday social situations. We present clinical recommendations and suggestions for future studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"44 2","pages":"143 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10465-022-09359-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44925514","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":"Where Contact Improvisation Meets Dance/Movement Therapy: An Embodied Group Artistic Inquiry","authors":"Kellyn Jackson","doi":"10.1007/s10465-022-09360-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-022-09360-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The purpose of this study was to explore potential for integrating elements of contact improvisation (CI) into the practice of dance/movement therapy (DMT). This study aimed to determine the critical considerations for introducing an improvisational practice involving the use of touch to clients in a safe and therapeutic manner. The primary research question was: How can CI be used within the practice of DMT? The primary investigator collaborated with three dance/movement therapists who also practice CI to explore the research question through an embodied group artistic inquiry. Co-researchers met three times for three hours each in a private dance studio space. Data were collected and analyzed through arts-based methods, including structured improvisations, visual art, and dialogue which were documented through a short film. The results illuminated the many layers of psychological and emotional content that CI can provoke, suggesting that CI must be broken down into small, manageable experiences specific to the clients’ needs, setting and treatment goals. Two themes emerged that illuminate the purpose of CI in DMT, which are holism and making contact. The study aims to spark further conversation about the ways in which the exploration of contact (both physical and emotional) can be transformational for DMT clients and facilitators.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"44 1","pages":"21 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50530176","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}