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The spirit of this book can best be captured in the saying: If you don't use it, you lose it. Staying active is important throughout a person's life. It is never too late to change a sedentary lifestyle or to learn new things. The material in this book is directed towards older adults and those who lead older adults in health, exercise and dance programs. For the most part, the exercises and dance activities in this book were selected because they can be performed in small spaces on a limited budget using free, inexpensive or no equipment. Some activities are designed for individuals and others are for small or large groups. A major portion of this book is devoted to descriptions, suggestions and procedures for exercise and dance activities, therefore, they may be read in any sequence. ... Read more

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The multiplicity of levels at which art therapy operates is the theme of this work. It examines: what happens during a therapy session; the client's response; what is experienced through the medium of the art form itself; and the evolution of the relationship between therapist and client. ... Read more

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This edition of Using the Creative Arts in Therapy has been updated to include developments in creative arts in therapy, with an emphasis on promoting health and encouraging healing, particularly self-healing. The contributors, all creative specialists with extensive experience of working in education, rehabilitation and health care, describe in detail their work in the fields of folklore and ritual, the visual arts, music, dance, drama, puppetry and storytelling. Designed for all those who are interested in using the arts in their professional practice, this book provides a practical approach to the use of the arts in special education, rehabilitation and health care. ... Read more

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Dance movement therapy is the use of creative movement and dance in a therapeutic alliance. It uses the relationship between motion and emotion as a vehicle through which an individual can engage in personal integration towards a clearer definition of self. During the last 10 years, dance movement therapy, along with the other arts therapies, has consolidated as a separate and valid therapy in health, education and the voluntary and social services. "Dance Movement Therapy" offers dance movement therapists and students, as well as allied professionals, an insight into state-of-the-art DMT practice in the UK. The first book to document UK practice, it aims to provide a clear and balanced picture of representative work in the field, from its use with the mentally ill, learning-disabled and emotionally disturbed, through to high-functioning adults. Including both descriptive accounts and those based on research and academic scholarship, they highlight the different methods used within different settings. No one particular model is stressed. This book should be of interest to professionals in training and in practice in dance movement therapy, mental health and education. ... Read more

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This study investigated the effect of incorporating Dance/Movement Therapy techniques before and after standard physical restraint procedures for violence prevention in order to increase effectiveness of the intervention.Effectiveness is defined as improved therapeutic dynamics and empathy between the participants.This study was conducted at the Terry Children?s Psychiatric Center in New Castle, Delaware, USA. Participants included children and staff.Children were asked about their experiences in therapeutic holds in order to qualitatively document their experience and inform the Workshop.Adult participants attended a four-hour Dance/Movement Therapy Training Workshop to learn to integrate Dance/Movement Therapy techniques with normal restraint procedures.Pre and Post intervention information was gathered using a mixed methodology approach, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methods.A model of the Dance/Movement Therapy training course was developed and executed as a project.It was found that the D/MT training increased adult empathy, awareness, and confidence in the procedure. ... Read more

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At the core of this book is the theme of transformation, not through the elimination or addition of any part of ourselves but through the reorganization of what we have, which often lies buried deep within. The goal of the marital therapist is transformation - to alter unproductive, limiting communication sequences and to expand the interactional repertoire of the couple. This text aims to provide a practical and in-depth examination of one of the most powerful approaches to working with couples in therapy - to facilitating transformation - Ericksonian hypnosis. Divided into 10 chapters, the book delineates the steps to effective intervention in marital therapy. Like Erickson, Carol Kershaw has deep respect for the individual and shared realities of couples who seek treatment - respect that comes through at every stage of intervention and that provides the necessary momentum for therapist and couple alike to reach the next stage. ... Read more

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(Jessica Kingsley Publishers) London Voice Centre, UK. Practical guide to the way in which physical movement and the expressive use of the voice can be therapeutic. Examines massage, manipulation and dance, and combined with vocal expression they can alleviate emotional, psychosomatic, and psycological symptoms. Softcover. ... Read more

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The question of the relation of soma and psyche is an issue that has been discussed by many philosophers present and past. How are physical and mental mechanisms working together? Are they deeply related to each other or should they be regarded as two separate, independent entities? Psychoanalysis is an example for a theoretical concept where the assumption of the existence of unconscious mechanisms is mainly based on mental and psychological processes. But could not the language of the body or the body itself give essential and relevant hints to the psyche?s unconscious mechanisms? My aim is to show that psychoanalytical theory is strongly based on and related to physical and corporal mechanisms and point out the connection of psyche and physicality. By telling the very personal dance and movement therapy experiences of my ten interviewees, the significance of a non-verbal, body-oriented and holictic approach within analytic therapy is emphasized. The following work shall be a contribution to raising awareness of the existence of the deep and complex relation of soma and psyche. ... Read more

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*Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study* Edited by John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack

The development in recent years of the intersections between the family and literary study continues to emerge as one of the most productive and illuminating arenas of contemporary critique. As an interpretative mechanism, family systems therapy (fst) provides scholars and readers alike with a revelatory social psychology for evaluating the nature of the
familial structures that often mark our textual experiences. In addition to addressing the family dynamic through which a given literary character develops a fully realized sense of self, family systems therapy allows readers to examine the patterns by which characters function in their larger intimate systems, whether those systems be social, institutional, or even global.

*Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study* offers a collection of original essays that reflects both the substantial critical interest in this important contemporary field of inquiry, as well as its wide range of forays into such disciplines as feminism, gender studies, ethnicity, race, and cultural studies. Divided into three
descriptive sections, Reading the Family Dance includes interdisciplinary essays that address various literary works in terms of family systems therapies respective approaches to our understandings of the self, the family, and the world. The essays in this volume range through much of the imaginative literature in English, including British works, ethnic and
canonized American texts, and even the translation of a Brazilian novel; although many of the works analyzed in this collection were published in the twentieth century, Reading the Family Dance features essays devoted to Shakespeare and to various works of nineteenth-century fiction as well.

The volume begins with John V. Knapp's comprehensive and wide-ranging introduction to family systems therapy and literary study. In addition to providing readers with an intellectual history of the discipline, Knapp establishes a contemporary scholarly foundation for the ensuing collection. The essays by Kenneth Womack, Rosemary Babcock, Gary Storhoff, and Lee Ann De Reus included in the volume's first section, "The Self:
Family Systems Therapy and the Quest for Identity," examine a host of issues related to the development of the self, including the onset of personal identity, sibling differentiation, and interpersonal communication.

In the volume's second section, "The Family: Family Systems
Therapy and the Discourse of Community," the essays by Joan I. Schwarz, Steven Snyder, Jerome Bump, Sara Cooper, and John V. Knapp discuss the vocabularies of community that assist families as they develop into functional units or, conversely, into dysfunctional factions. In Reading the Family Dance's final section, "The World: Reading Family Systems Therapy in Extremis," the essays by Todd F. Davis, James M. Decker, Marco
Malaspina, and Denis Jonnes explore the ways in which our culture often manifests itself in larger family systems. The essays in this section examine the ethics of these larger communities through their analyzes of Hollywood's entertainment culture, Renaissance-era family dynamics, and America's postwar family system.


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Title: Using dance/movement therapy to augment the effectiveness of therapeutic holding with children.
Author: Heather Lundy
Publication: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18Issue: 3Page: 135(11)

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For this volume, Robert Landy has assembled a collection of essays which encompasses his experience as a dramatherapist. The concept of "double life" can be seen to be a central theme running through the work - encapsulating the dramatherapist's need to balance the issues of theory, practice and personal growth. The range of essays includes both theory and practice. Landy tackles issues of training and research, examines concepts - such as that of role - in dramatherapy and presents case studies, such as the ambitious "The Double Life - A Case of Bipolar Disorder". Uniting entirely new material with some of Landy's most respected work, this collection is intended for dramatherapists, teachers and students of dramatherapy, and all those with an interest in creative arts expression. ... Read more

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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health” is an alphabetically arranged five-volume set of more than 850 entries written for students and professionals in the field. Topics include body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. The Encyclopedia covers all major health professions, including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, medical lab technology, emergency medical technology, dental assistance, pharmacology and nutrition, and features appendices of related organizations, agencies and associations.