Dance/movement therapy in the treatment of post traumatic stress: A reference model

Dieterich-Hartwell, Rebekka

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2017.02.010

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“…Our results are consistent with clinical insights that individuals experiencing mental health symptoms may benefit from interventions with bottom-up approaches focused on the affect and feelings within the body [i.e., body-based or sensorimotor; (77)]. These approaches (e.g., sensorimotor psychotherapy and relaxation training) use interoception techniques (i.e., the noting of sensations, discomforts, pain, tension, pleasurers, and cues) to increase positive feelings toward physical sensations and help with integrating sensations and body regulation (78). Interventions including yoga (79), mindfulness-based stress reduction (80), and biofeedback (81) have been shown to reduce threat-responsive autonomic reactivity and have benefits for mental health.…”

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Adversity History Predicts Self-Reported Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health in US Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Background: The spread of the COVID-19 virus presents an unprecedented event that rapidly introduced widespread life threat, economic destabilization, and social isolation. The human nervous system is tuned to detect safety and danger, integrating body and brain responses via the autonomic nervous system. Shifts in brain-body states toward danger responses can compromise mental health. For those who have experienced prior potentially traumatic events, the autonomic threat response system may be sensitive to new dangers and these threat responses may mediate the association between prior adversity and current mental health. Method: The present study collected survey data from adult U.S. residents (n = 1,666; 68% female; Age M = 46.24, SD = 15.14) recruited through websites, mailing lists, social media, and demographically-targeted sampling collected between March and May 2020. Participants reported on their adversity history, subjective experiences of autonomic reactivity, PTSD and depression symptoms, and intensity of worry related to the COVID-19 pandemic using a combination of standardized questionnaires and questions developed for the study. Formal mediation testing was conducted using path analysis and structural equation modeling. Results: Respondents with prior adversities reported higher levels of destabilized autonomic reactivity, PTSD and depression symptoms, and worry related to COVID-19. Autonomic reactivity mediated the relation between adversity and all mental health variables (standardized indirect effect range for unadjusted models: 0.212-0.340; covariate-adjusted model: 0.183-0.301). Discussion: The data highlight the important role of autonomic regulation as an intervening variable in mediating the impact of adversity on mental health. Because of the important role that autonomic function plays in the expression of mental health vulnerability, brain-body oriented therapies that promote threat response reduction should be investigated as possible therapeutic targets.

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Adversity History Predicts Self-Reported Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health in US Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…Herbert and Pollatos (2012) propose interoception as the fundamental feature of human embodiment and suggest that interoceptive states are building blocks that contribute to this fundament of the ‘self,’ where the self is grounded in the body. A wealth of evidence suggests that compromises to interoception are present in a range of psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders including anxiety, depression, addiction and dissociative disorders (Dieterich‐Hartwell, 2017; Levine & Land, 2016; Seth, 2013; Tsakiris & De Preester, 2018). That being said, one may assume that disorders with an interoceptive component, such as OCD or dissociative disorders for example, may be very good targets for DMT as treatment.…”

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Towards a neurocognitive approach to dance movement therapy for mental health: A systematic review

Millman

Terhune

Hunter

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Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Dance movement therapy (DMT) has become an increasingly recognized and used treatment, though primarily used to target psychological and physical well‐being in individuals with physical, medical or neurological illnesses. To contribute to the relative lack of literature within the field of DMT for clinical mental health disorders, using a narrative synthesis, we review the scope of recent, controlled studies of DMT in samples with different psychiatric disorders including depression, schizophrenia, autism and somatoform disorder. A systematic search of electronic databases (PubMed, Science Direct, World of Science and Clinicaltrials.gov) was conducted to identify studies examining the effects of DMT in psychiatric populations. Fifteen studies were eligible for inclusion. After reviewing the principal results of the studies, we highlight strengths and weaknesses of this treatment approach and examine the potential efficacy of using bodily movements as a tool to reduce symptoms. We conclude by placing DMT within the context of contemporary cognitive neuroscience research, drawing out implications of such an orientation for future research and discussing potential mechanisms by which DMT might reduce psychiatric symptoms. DMT has clear potential as a treatment for a range of conditions and symptoms, and thus, further research on its utility is warranted.

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“…The mechanism for stress and emotional adjustment could be that the dance and music elements might regulate states of emotions through mind-body interactions which occur due to the effects of the released neurotransmitters making participants feel entertained and happy [ 81 , 82 , 83 ]. Interoception is another critical maturational element of dance whose effects might play a role in mood regulation and the promotion of the emotional state [ 46 ]. ACDs’ elements of music and body movement stimulate interoception and act as distractors to shift a person’s attention away from negative experiences and replace them with positive thoughts [ 40 , 41 , 84 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They interplay with one another through dancing (e.g., tapping the rhythm of music) to stimulate interoception, which is the process of sensory information inside the body being transmitted and communicated to the brain and other body structures that occurs with or without conscious attention [ 45 ]. Interoception acts as distractors to shift a person’s attention away from the negative experience and replace it with positive thoughts [ 46 ]. This shifting of attention serves as one of the emotion-focused coping strategies allowing the person to cope with stress.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This shifting of attention serves as one of the emotion-focused coping strategies allowing the person to cope with stress. As a result, stress and negative emotions could be healed [ 46 ]. There is evidence showing that dance interventions, including African dance, reduce physiological stress, perceived stress, and negative affect in various populations (e.g., older people and college students) [ 47 , 48 ].…”

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Effects of an African Circle Dance Programme on Internally Displaced Persons with Depressive Symptoms: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Salihu

Wong

Kwan

2021

IJERPH

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Background: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who have been forced to flee their homes due to disasters. Depressive symptoms, at over 31–67%, are prevalent in IDPs in Africa. Despite the evidence for the benefits of the promotion of dance interventions on psychological health, supporting information is needed to outline the benefits of an African Circle Dance (ACD) intervention for IDPs in Africa. Methods: A quasi-experimental design (pre-/post-test) was employed. Two IDP camps were randomized into the intervention group (psychoeducation and ACD intervention) and the control group (psychoeducation). Adults aged ≥18 years, living in an IDP camp, able to perform brisk walking, and who scored ≥10 on a depressive symptoms subscale were recruited. The intervention group received an 8-week ACD dance intervention and two 1-h psychoeducation sessions on stress management; the controls only received the psychoeducation sessions. Outcomes were depressive symptoms, stress, and anxiety. Data were collected at baseline (T0), immediately after the intervention at week 8 (T1), and at week 12 (T2) at the post-intervention and follow-up session. A generalized estimating equation was used to test the effects of the ACD intervention, with a 0.05 significance level. Results: 198 IDPs completed the study (ncontrol = 98; nintervention = 100). The intervention group reported significantly greater improvements in depressive symptoms (v = 0.33, p < 0.001) and stress (v = 0.15, 0.008) than did the control group. Conclusions: ACD could be a valuable complementary intervention in health promotion but more research is needed.

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Dance/movement therapy in the treatment of post traumatic stress: A reference model

Cited by 48 publications

References 35 publications

Adversity History Predicts Self-Reported Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health in US Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Adversity History Predicts Self-Reported Autonomic Reactivity and Mental Health in US Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Towards a neurocognitive approach to dance movement therapy for mental health: A systematic review

Effects of an African Circle Dance Programme on Internally Displaced Persons with Depressive Symptoms: A Quasi-Experimental Study

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