CONCLUSION
Despite relatively wide use and application, the efficacy of the creative arts therapies has not been established through empirical research (Foa 2010 – 586) Case studies, personal experience and interviews is the main source of research in DMT. However, the selection of three DMT techniques and the subsequent support with similar concepts from other
fields of therapy has been a light attempt to explain the effectiveness of dance therapy in the treatment of PTSD.
The exact source of therapeutic benefits of the creative arts therapies, in this case dance therapy is likely to be derived from imaginal exposure, cognitive restructuring, stress management, resilience enhancement, and testimony as well as physiological processes and specific contributions of non verbal and creative elements (Foa 2010 – 602).
As Johnson expressed in his chapter in the Guidelines for treatment PTSD (2000-586), creative arts therapies may improve PTSD clients’ self-esteem, hope, and prosocial behaviour, and reduce feelings of shame and guilt, through the association of traumatic material to adaptive and aesthetic modes of expression. Dance therapy might work, but more systematised research with Random Control Trials and larger studies is prioritary in the field. Moreover, naming of techniques and consensus would help gaining a more systematized work.
How necessary is it to have a protocol in the treatment of trauma related disorders?
Would the systematization of techniques provide a higher recognition of DMT in the
psychotherapy world?
Does the field itself want systematisation and efficacy?
What would that suppose in the creativity, spontaneity, and flexibility of the therapeutic
process?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Links
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This is a chapter of a critical literature review: «Effectiveness of Dance Movement Therapy techniques when working with PTSD»
It was an exercise for my second year in the Master in Dance Movement Therapy in Codarts, Rotterdam. Therefore it may have faults in the quotation and not be rigourous or valid for research.
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