{"title":"Embodied Ethical Decision-Making: A Clinical Case Study of Respect for Culturally Based Meaning Making in Mental Healthcare","authors":"Megz Roberts","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09338-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-020-09338-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"43 1","pages":"36 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09338-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52291080","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":"Single-Session Dance/Movement Therapy for People with Acute Schizophrenia: Development of a Treatment Protocol","authors":"Jacelyn Biondo, Nancy Gerber","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09341-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09341-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>People experiencing acute symptomatology associated with schizophrenia require interventions that support stabilization. Dance/movement therapy (DMT) can be a promising treatment option for this population due to the potential for verbal communication difficulties, alternative reality bases, and movement dysfunctions associated with schizophrenia. However, due to the improvisational nature of DMT, it is often difficult to identify the specific interventions or components of the therapeutic process that may support stabilization and symptom reduction. Moreover, as inpatient lengths of stay decrease, it is imperative that we implement shorter treatment protocols. This inquiry analyzed 14 single-session DMT group sessions for people with acute schizophrenia on an inpatient psychiatric unit to determine the components of the DMT process common amongst each session. Data analysis of therapist field notes informed the development of a single-session DMT treatment protocol to outline the four phases of a single-session DMT group: warm-up, thematic development, cool down, and verbal discussion. Results of this inquiry determined that there were repeated components of the 14 sessions. A systematic content analysis of the therapy process is potentially useful for the examination of what may specifically contribute to symptom reduction in DMT groups.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 2","pages":"277 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09341-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43939133","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":"Building Emotional Resilience and Physical Stability Through Movement Therapy for Sports (MTS®): A Case for Applying MTS® as a Tool for Enhancing Athletic Performance Among Professional or Trained Athletes","authors":"Dilshad K. Patel","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09334-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09334-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article serves to highlight the potential role of Movement Therapy for Sports (MTS®) in addressing significant gaps in current athletic training methods. Movement Therapy for Sports is a training system, developed by the author, which, building on dance/movement therapy principles, identifies, analyses, and offers solutions for overcoming numerous physical, mental, and emotional barriers that impede effective movement. Engagement with MTS® is hypothesized to offer elite athletes in particular a means of transforming attitudes and improving sports performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 2","pages":"256 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09334-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49338854","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":"An Embodied Artistic Inquiry into Attachment-Oriented Therapeutic Relationships","authors":"Emma K. Mamis","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09336-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09336-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, I utilized an embodied artistic inquiry self-study to explore my experience of attachment in the therapeutic movement relationships (TMR) created as a dance/movement therapy intern at a psychiatric residential treatment center for children. The research was guided by three questions: How do I experience the TMR with children in a psychiatric residential treatment setting using attachment theory? How is my personal attachment style influencing and guiding the therapeutic relationship? How does my identification of salient moments relate to my own attachment style and aesthetic preference? Data were collected using journal entries that reflected on the researcher’s experience of attachment, saliency, and Tortora’s D.A.N.C.E. qualities of attachment (Clin Soc Work J 38(1):37–50, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-009-0254-9, 2010). I analyzed the data using discussion and Authentic Movement with a research consultant in order to synthesize and describe the experience of each salient moment. Repeated movements included grounded and unstable walking, changing of levels, core-distal movements, circling and carving arms, and recuperation. The themes that resulted from repeated movements and discussion with the research consultant include foundational movements, holding discomfort, connection to a specific client, and playfulness. These results reinforced the importance of stability and self-awareness for a therapist especially in relationship to how their movement and nonverbal preferences may have been learned from attachment relationships. Furthermore, results show the impact of saliency and the clinician’s aesthetic preference. In addition, the results reflected the strong relationship among nonverbal qualities of attachment and the TMR. These results suggested that qualities of attachment underlie the effectiveness of the TMR. Although limitations of the study prevented me from drawing correlative conclusions, the therapist may be able to strengthen the therapeutic relationship by targeting primary attachment models, and suggestions for further research are included.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 2","pages":"223 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09336-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47229513","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":"Dance/Movement Therapy: A Whole Person Approach to Working with Trauma and Building Resilience","authors":"Ilene A. Serlin","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09335-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09335-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the use of dance/movement therapy, as a Whole Person approach to working with trauma and building resilience, to effect individual and community change around the world. The arts are a particularly effective way for people who cannot express themselves verbally to find symbolic and embodied expression of their suffering and hopes for the future. Dance/movement therapy can draw on folk dance and specific cultural forms to address universal themes. The content of this paper was presented as a workshop at the American Dance Therapy Association convention in San Diego, 2015.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 2","pages":"176 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09335-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38651246","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":"Dynamic Equilibrium: Engaging and Supporting Neurophysiological Intelligence Through Dance/Movement Therapy","authors":"Kalila B. Homann","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09337-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09337-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In dance/movement therapy, methods are based on the experiential process of embodiment and founded on the understanding that the body deeply informs consciousness. Clinical interventions are effectively and flexibly employed with a wide range of populations across the developmental spectrum. Dance/movement therapy interventions involve shifting attentional states and moving in deeper relationship to self and others; clinical practices include attuned interoceptive sensing, somatic awareness, interactive dance, and authentic movement. This article considers dance/movement therapy approaches in light of affective neurobiology research on vagal and biochemical regulation, interoception, empathy and attunement, memory and affective systems, and brain lateralization. It includes current research, clinical vignettes, and narrative discussion regarding new theoretical insights and treatment applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 2","pages":"296 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09337-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48087959","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":"When Death Precedes Birth: The Embodied Experiences of Women with a History of Miscarriage or Stillbirth—A Phenomenological Study Using Artistic Inquiry","authors":"Maria Renée Kurz","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Miscarriage and stillbirth are more prevalent than socially perceived and have often been discussed in nursing and medicine literature as solely a medical event to be managed, not a death to be mourned. Social silence, ambiguity surrounding the nature of what was lost, and a painful experience of having no right to mourn are common experiences faced by women with a history of miscarriage or stillbirth. While more recent psychiatry and counseling research has uncovered the extent of grief, trauma, and psychosocial impact following miscarriage and stillbirth, very few studies have sought to understand the bodily experience of living with this history. This phenomenological research study sought to understand and describe the embodied experiences of women who have had a miscarriage or stillbirth. A sample of three participants individually engaged in a movement elicitation procedure followed by a semi-structured verbal interview. Artistic inquiry methods (Hervey in Artistic inquiry in dance/movement therapy: Creative alternatives for research, Charles C Thomas, Springfield, IL, 2000) were integrated throughout the data analysis procedure (Moustakas in Phenomenological research methods, Sage Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994) to enhance the understanding of each woman’s current, lived-body experience. As a result, five universal themes emerged: Momentum of new life; Stuck in emptiness; Where is my body and where am I?; We go together; and Love does not forget. These themes are supported by the extant literature and the author suggests that the results from this study may be used to inform the integration and practice of dance/movement therapy interventions in miscarriage and stillbirth bereavement counseling and future dance/movement therapy research studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 2","pages":"194 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50476034","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":"When Death Precedes Birth: The Embodied Experiences of Women with a History of Miscarriage or Stillbirth—A Phenomenological Study Using Artistic Inquiry","authors":"M. Kurz","doi":"10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44552,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DANCE THERAPY","volume":"42 1","pages":"194 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10465-020-09340-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52291240","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}