Widening our lens: The implications of resilience for the professional identity and practice of dance movement therapists

Wengrower, Hilda

doi:10.1080/17432979.2015.1044472

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“…There are support networks and other tools that help them to be more resilient. Resilience is oriented to overcome difficulties and continue, connecting to those motivations that give meaning to their existence and keep hope alive (Wengrower, 2015).…”

Section: First Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Concept of Social Reconciliation Through the Experience of a Dance/Movement Therapy Group of Migrant Women in Spain

Castellanos-Montenegro,

de Zárate

2024

Am J Dance Ther

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This paper explores the potential of Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) as a means of contributing to social reconciliation processes. The study, conducted through a group process with migrant women living in Spain, suggests that the relationships developed between participants in the DMT group reflect some of the key elements underpinning theories of social reconciliation. The elements of trust, empathy, and a willingness to coexist with others can be understood as the return to a sense of community and belonging. Furthermore, working with migrant women appeared as an opportunity to explore the concept of social reconciliation beyond national borders as an initial step to understanding this phenomenon through DMT. In summary, it is proposed that Dance Movement Therapy, oriented towards the configuration of new forms of relationship, has the potential to contribute to the modification of polarization frameworks in group and community relationships, particularly in areas affected by conflict or social marginalization experienced by migrants and refugees.

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Section: First Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Concept of Social Reconciliation Through the Experience of a Dance/Movement Therapy Group of Migrant Women in Spain

Castellanos-Montenegro,

de Zárate

2024

Am J Dance Ther

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“…DMT, which prioritizes improvised and expressive movement (Dunphy et al, 2019), is distinct from other dance-based interventions such as dance-exercise, which emphasizes the aerobic qualities of dance, or community dance/adapted-dance, in which dance is taught to a particular population. DMT is a whole-person approach which can foster resilience through embodied opportunities to create, engage in coping skills, and connect with others (Serlin, 2020;Wengrower, 2015). A substantial body of research documents positive psychological and physiological outcomes of DMT, ranging from increased positive affect and stress management, to decreased depressive symptoms (e.g., Koch et al, 2019;Martin et al, 2018).…”

Section: Dance/movement Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Caregiver Resilience and Dance/Movement Therapy: A Theoretical Review and Conceptual Model

Champagne

2023

J Appl Gerontol

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With the population aging, more people are living with neurodegenerative conditions, leading to an influx of informal family caregivers, who often experience negative health outcomes. Few caregiver interventions have successfully adopted a holistic, strengths-based approach to fostering resilience. This article examines existing literature on caregiver resilience factors, which include self-efficacy, flexibility, cultivating positive emotions, and drawing on spiritual and social supports. Despite how dance/movement therapy (DMT) has been shown to foster psychological and physiological benefits, it remains underexplored for caregivers. Therapeutic mechanisms of DMT are expounded for their innate correspondence to resilience factors, and a new comprehensive model of DMT for caregiver resilience is presented, with implications for future intervention design and measurement.

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“…The DMT interventions aim to guide the patient through a positive developmental process, or they assist in working through trauma, often being accompanied by introspective insightfocused counseling (Wengrower, 2009). Several studies focus on how the DMT interventions can promote internal factors of resilience such as self-control, emotion regulation, problemsolving (Koshland, 2010), self-esteem (Wengrower, 2015), and empowerment (Levine et al, 2015).…”

Section: Movement and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion

Nijs

Nicolaou

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Worldwide, children face adverse childhood experiences, being exposed to risks ranging from, exposure to political violence and forced migration over the deleterious effects of climate change, to unsafe cultural practices. As a consequence, children that seek refuge or migrate to European countries are extremely vulnerable, often struggling with integration in school, peer community, and their broader social circle. This multifaceted struggle can derive from external factors, such as the adaptation process and contact with other children, or internal factors such as the fears and trauma that every child carries within them since they departed from their homeland. To bounce, grow, connect, and create in both adversity and opportunity, children need to build resilience, i.e., the capacity of an individual to maintain stable psychological functioning throughout the course of adversity. On the one hand, building resilience requires developing a set of individual skills (internal protective factors), such as self-control, emotion regulation, self-esteem, and agency. On the other hand, building resilience involves developing social skills (external protective factors), connection, and close relationships. In this theoretical contribution, we review and map existing research to argue that activities based on the combination of music and movement has a strong potential to intensively build resilience. First, we connect the concepts of resilience and eudaimonia, based on the protective factors and key components of resilience. Then we discuss how music and movement, separately, may contribute to building resilience. Next, drawing on the basic mechanisms of musical sense-making, we argue that through combining music and movement, children engage in empowering musical sense-making processes that support building resilience, and in this way, support them to grow together and deeply experience eudaimonic values such as self-awareness, confidence and self-esteem, personal autonomy, connection, belonging, and bonding. Finally, we connect theory to practice. Based on the presented theoretical elaborations and on the authors’ experience as practitioners, we propose a set of guiding principles for the design of movement-based musical activities that foster the internal and external factors necessary to build resilience.

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Widening our lens: The implications of resilience for the professional identity and practice of dance movement therapists

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Exploring the Concept of Social Reconciliation Through the Experience of a Dance/Movement Therapy Group of Migrant Women in Spain

Exploring the Concept of Social Reconciliation Through the Experience of a Dance/Movement Therapy Group of Migrant Women in Spain

Caregiver Resilience and Dance/Movement Therapy: A Theoretical Review and Conceptual Model

Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion

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