Dance therapy

Dance/movement therapy
MeSHD003614

Dance/movement therapy (DMT) in USA[1] and Australia[2] or dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) in the UK[3] is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body.[4] As a modality of the creative arts therapies, DMT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion.[5]

  1. ^ "American Dance Therapy Association". ADTA.org. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia". DTAA.org.au. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy". ADMP.org.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  4. ^ Ekman, S.-L.; Palo Bengtsson, L. and Winblad, B.; Ekman, S.-L. (1998). "Social Dancing: A Way to Support Intellectual, Emotional and Motor Functions in Persons with Dementia". Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 6. 5 (6): 545–554. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2850.1998.560545.x. PMID 10076285.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Schore, A. (1994). "affect regulation and the origin of the self: the neurobiology of emotional development". Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 35 (11): 1561–1562. doi:10.1097/00004583-199611000-00028.