| Carol-Lynne Moore, Kaoru Yamamoto - Performing Arts - 1988 - 330 pages
...dance therapy and body therapy. Dance therapy is defined by the American Dance Therapy Association as "the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process which furthers the emotional and physical integration of the individual."87 The field was founded in the United States in the 1950s... | |
| Joel A. DeLisa, Bruce M. Gans, Nicholas E. Walsh - Medical - 2005 - 2088 pages
...training and rehabilitation (70,71). DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY Dance/movement therapy (DMT) is officially defined as "the psychotherapeutic use of movement...a process which furthers the emotional, cognitive and physical integration of the individual" (72). Although primarily thought of as a psychotherapy... | |
| Shulamith Kreitler, Myriam Weyl Ben Arush - Medical - 2004 - 474 pages
...DANCE AND MOVEMENT THERAPY The American Dance Therapy Association defines dance or movement therapy as 'the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process which furthers the emotional, cognitive and physical integration of the individual'. In recent years more specific goals were developed in... | |
| Phil Jones - Art therapy - 2005 - 326 pages
...Associations use this idea. For example, the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) defines DMT as 'the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process...social and physical integration of the individual' (ADTA website). The Irish Association of Creative Arts Therapists' (IACAT) definition echoes this:... | |
| Dennis McCarthy - Psychology - 2008 - 160 pages
...to demonstrate the techniques I use. DMT is, as defined by the American Dance Therapy Association, "the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process which furthers the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual" (ADTA 2007). Dance/movement therapists... | |
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