Indications and contraindications in dance movement therapy: learning from practitioners' experience

Abstract: Dance movement therapy is increasingly established as an evidence-based treatment modality in health care. However, systematic knowledge on indications and contraindications of dance movement therapy (DMT) are widely lacking. In this study, we developed a questionnaire to learn from practitioners' experience with DMT intervention methods for specific patient populations. Fifty-four practitioners from ten different countries worldwide indicated the "dos and don'ts" for their main populations. These inductively and experientially gained indications and contraindications for DMT, and their justifications, fell into 22 clinical categories such as psychiatry, psychosomatics, neurology, trauma, eating disorder, pain, oncology, and treatment of specific groups such as children, adolescents, families, pregnant women or prisoners. Extensive materials resulted for each disorder. Results suggest that for clinical populations the Chace method, body image work, and movement rituals, such as ci...

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Indications and contraindications in dance movement therapy: learning from practitioners' experience ; volume:2 ; day:28 ; month:02 ; year:2020 ; GMS journal of arts therapies ; 2 (28.02.2020)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Medizin, Gesundheit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Koch, Sabine C.

Further information

• DOI: 10.3205/jat000006
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0183-jat0000065
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 11:01 AM CEST