Dance Movement Therapy: Theory and Practice

Payne, Helen

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“…The TBMA is not a cure in the traditional medical sense of the term but instead offers an alternative approach, supporting patients to learn how to self-manage symptoms. It challenges the separation of body and mind critiqued above, instead integrating body with mind in an approach derived from an embodied form of psychotherapy—movement psychotherapy (Payne, 1992, 2006b, 2017)—taking a phenomenological stance emphasising the lived experience of the body. TBMA is designed as experiential learning (Kolb, 1984) and an interdisciplinary-facilitated group practice through body-based activities and symbolic expression via the arts.…”

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The BodyMind Approach® as Transformative Learning to Promote Self-Management for Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Payne

Roberts

Jarvis

2019

Journal of Transformative Education

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This article describes how adults learn to self-manage chronic bodily symptoms, a complex and costly health problem. It proposes a theory of learning for an innovative, research-informed intervention, The BodyMind Approach® (TBMA) aimed at developing confidence, competence, skills, and knowledge and understanding for self-management for people with medically unexplained symptoms. TBMA is interdisciplinary, combining embodiment and arts in health with transformative learning. Having explored the problem, the article presents TBMA and argues for how it cultivates the type of learning which sustains the self-management of symptoms. Promoting self-management fills the gap between patient needs and health service capacity. Previous studies identify learning through this method enables people to manage their symptoms when under stress in an ever-changing environment, supporting sufficient structure, agency, reflexivity, self-efficacy, and self-regulatory strategies to maintain resilience in the face of life adversity, despite their symptoms.

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The BodyMind Approach® as Transformative Learning to Promote Self-Management for Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Payne

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Jarvis

2019

Journal of Transformative Education

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“…Since holistic health is premised on the interconnections of body, mind, and spirit, activities that simultaneously affect all three of these elements are deemed facilitative of healing (Halprin, 2000). As established within holistic movement modalities, physical activities that rely on self-experimentation, discovery, and personal liberation are central to long-term wellness (Halprin, 2000; Payne, 2006). Dance is well established as a holistic healing modality because of its ability to fuse body, mind, and spirit activity.…”

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Healing Through Movement

Moe

2013

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Perceptions of “belly dance” are that it is degrading, exploitive, and incongruous to feminism. Curiously, however, the dance is incredibly popular in various parts of the world, including the United States, as a form of recreation and creative expression. This article examines the apparent disconnect between public perception and practitioner standpoint. Findings indicate a strong holistic healing component, particularly in terms of gendered interpersonal victimization, where belly dance seems to hold potential for self-exploration and discovery. Grounded historically, culturally, and empirically, these findings are discussed in terms of their application to social work practice, as it relates to alternative therapies.

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“…Policy-driven imperatives of cost effectiveness have demanded research that identifies which elements of intervention produce particular effects within given time periods (Staricoff 2006). Practitioners are more likely to be concerned with contextual and relational factors (Payne 2006). Within the National Health Service (NHS), interventions are primarily appraised according to clinical outcomes.…”

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“…Beyond this, the 'in-between' quality of dance also relates to dance's ability actively to promote links 'in-between' the psychological and the physical. Dance movement therapists' assertion that there is a recursive mind-body relationship (Payne 2006) was supported by direct statements from both staff and service users. The mind-body connection allowed internal experience to be expressed physically: … Debbie initiated an improve [improvisation] … she was able to explore the movement herself and I ended up following her instead, and so that was a real role reversal.…”

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“…As with DMT (Payne 2006), the dance allowed difficult emotions to be moderated. The ability to overcome a sense of dissonance between mind and body was described by Rachel: … if you've ever been stuck in an elevator and it stopped midway, and there is nobody else there but you, and you don't know what to do, you don't know who to go to and the phone stops working.…”

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Dance as a Complex Intervention in an Acute Mental Health Setting: A Place ‘In-Between’

Froggett

Little

2012

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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This article discusses the evaluation of a dance programme in the United Kingdom. There is little research specifically on dance within hospital-based environments. The aim was to ascertain whether dance is a useful intervention for service users in such an environment; to identify its effects on participants' inner-world experience; and to understand whether it has a positive contribution to hopefulness, as identified by Spandler et al (2007) in a national study of the effect on mental health of engaging with the arts. Dance was viewed as a complex intervention (Creek and Lawson-Porter 2007), demanding a mixed-method approach (Flick 2002) that illuminated psychosocial, rather than clinical, benefits. The programme involved collaboration between a professional female dancer employed by a local dance institute, who conducted the sessions on a voluntary basis, and hospital-based staff who were keen to extend cultural activities. The dancer had a particular interest in the potential of dance in mental health contexts and, although no formal agreement with the dance institute was involved, the project, if evaluated as having positive effects on participants, had implications for future partnerships between the hospital and local cultural institutions. The hospital was interested in demonstrating its commitment to cultural provision and had commissioned a local film company to document the programme before the research team began the evaluation. Subject to participant consent, unedited film footage was made available to the research team as data. This rather unusual set of circumstances enabled detailed observation of microprocesses of engagement by a research panel. The evaluation drew on four methods of data collection.

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Dance Movement Therapy: Theory and Practice

Cited by 95 publications

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The BodyMind Approach® as Transformative Learning to Promote Self-Management for Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms

The BodyMind Approach® as Transformative Learning to Promote Self-Management for Patients With Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Healing Through Movement

Dance as a Complex Intervention in an Acute Mental Health Setting: A Place ‘In-Between’

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