PY 618A: DMT With Adults

Description:

Competency Area: Individual Assessment & Intervention Strategies
Required of and restricted to DMT II students, December 7 - 16. Open to CMHC II & CMHC-SAAC II students as a PYC equivalent on December 17; others by written permission of the Program Director provided to the Registrar's Office via Antioch email.

This course will present a theoretical and practical framework for in-depth work and brief treatment models in dance/movement therapy with a variety of adult populations. Trauma and addictions recovery models, along with mind-body and object relations frameworks are examined and integrated with KMP, Laban and Body-Mind CenteringTM concepts. Techniques such as somatic counter-transference, gestalt work, integrated transformational healing, dramatic improvisational experiments, re-choreography of object relations and authentic movement are explored and experienced.