An introduction to medical dance movement therapy

✍ Scribed by Goodill S.W.

• Publisher: Kingsley
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presenting dance/movement therapy (DMT) as a viable and valuable psychosocial support service for those with a medical illness, Sharon W. Goodill shows how working creatively with the mind/body connection can encourage and enhance the healing process. This book represents the first attempt to compile, synthesize, and publish the work that has been done over recent years in medical DMT. The emerging application of medical DMT is grounded within the context of established viewpoints and theories, such as arts therapies, health psychology and scientific perspectives. As well as examining its theoretical foundations, the author offers real-life examples of medical DMT working with people of different ages with different medical conditions. This comprehensive book provides a firm foundation for exploration and practice in medical DMT, including recommendations for professional preparation, research and program development. Interviews with dance/movement therapists bring fresh and exciting perspectives to the field and these and the author's testimonies point to the possible future applications of medical DMT. With an increasing number of professional dance/movement therapists working with the medically ill and their families, this is a timely and well-grounded look at an exciting new discipline. It is recommended reading for DMT students and professionals, complementary therapists, and all those with an interest in the healing potential of working innovatively with the mind and body.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
of related interest......Page 4
Title Page......Page 5
ISBN 1843107856......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Part I Overview......Page 15
Purpose and scope of the book......Page 17
The biopsychosocial model......Page 20
Systems theory......Page 22
Interdisciplinarity......Page 23
The mind/body integration......Page 24
Quality of life......Page 26
Disease/illness......Page 27
The context of medical dance/movement therapy......Page 28
Complementary and alternative medicine......Page 29
Creative arts therapies......Page 30
Arts medicine......Page 31
Dance and movement......Page 32
2 Psychological Concepts for Medical Dance/Movement Therapy......Page 35
Stress......Page 38
Coping......Page 39
Self-efficacy......Page 42
Social support......Page 44
Mood and emotion......Page 45
Spirituality and religion......Page 49
Imagery......Page 50
Body image and body imagery in illness......Page 51
State change......Page 53
3 The Science behind Medical Dance/Movement Therapy......Page 60
The stress response......Page 61
The HPA axis and its hormonal activity......Page 64
Pathway to the immune system......Page 67
health and illness......Page 70
Breath: Physiology, emotions and movement......Page 73
consciousness......Page 75
Interactions with the musculoskeletal system......Page 79
Mind/body interventions......Page 80
Possible mechanisms for DMT in physical health......Page 83
Part II Applications of Medical Dance/Movement Therapy......Page 85
Prologue......Page 87
Pain......Page 89
Psychogenic somatic disorders......Page 94
Heart disease......Page 100
Pulmonary disease......Page 102
HIV/AIDS......Page 104
Neurological conditions......Page 107
The developmental context......Page 111
DMT programming and case vignettes......Page 115
Dance/movement therapy and general psychooncology......Page 126
Dance/movement therapy for women with breast cancer......Page 134
Dance/movement therapy in pediatric oncology......Page 142
Children of seriously ill parents......Page 145
Parents of seriously ill children......Page 150
Siblings of ill children......Page 152
Multifamily formats......Page 153
Professional caregivers......Page 154
Patients who are dying......Page 155
Bereavement......Page 159
Bereaved children......Page 161
Part III Research and Education......Page 165
7 Research Issues in Medical Dance/Movement Therapy......Page 167
Assessment in medical DMT......Page 168
Self-efficacy......Page 170
Adherence......Page 171
The mind/body dynamic......Page 172
Collaboration......Page 174
Mixed methodology and single-case designs......Page 175
Systematic therapeutic learning......Page 177
Psychophysiological measurement......Page 178
8 Patient–Provider Communication: Implications for Dance/ Movement Therapy......Page 181
Studies from medicine, nursing and psychology......Page 182
Research from a DMT perspective......Page 186
Proposals for DMT contributions to NVC research and training in health care......Page 189
Academic preparation......Page 192
Personal preparation......Page 194
Training exercise: Where does it hurt?......Page 198
Training exercise: Dancing with limitations......Page 199
Training exercise: The coping dance......Page 200
DMT-based guided imagery for respiratory functioning......Page 201
Multidisciplinarity revisited......Page 204
Appendix A: Additional Resources for Medical Dance/Movement Therapists......Page 206
Appendix B: Biographies of Foreword Writer and Medical Dance/Movement Therapy Interviewees......Page 209
References......Page 211
Subject Index......Page 232
Author Index......Page 240