Dance / Movement Therapy
Dance / Movement Therapy was Developed by: Marian Chace, Mary Whitehouse and Trudi Schoop
Overview of Dance / Movement Therapy: “Dance therapy is offered as a health promotion service for healthy people, and as a complementary method of reducing the stress of caregivers and people with cancer and other chronic illness. Physically, dance therapy can provide exercise, improve mobility and muscle coordination, and reduce muscle tension. Emotionally, dance therapy is reported to improve self-awareness, self-confidence, and interpersonal interaction, and is an outlet for communicating feelings. Some promoters claim that dance therapy may strengthen the immune system through muscular action and physiological processes and even help prevent disease.” --excerpt from Cancer.org
“Dance is the most fundamental of the arts, involving direct expression through the body. Thus, it is an intimate and powerful medium for therapy. Based on the assumption that body and mind are interrelated, dance/movement therapy is defined by the American Dance Therapy Association as "the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process which furthers the emotional, cognitive and physical integration of the individual." Dance/movement therapy effects changes in feelings, cognition, physical functioning, and behavior.” --excerpt from The National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations
Resources Related to Dance/Movement Therapy:
The National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations
A World of Aromatherapy
American Dance Therapy Association
Cancer.org
Wikipedia's Page about Dance / Movement Therapy
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