Medical Research on healing power of the arts Sat, 10 Jul 2004
From: Iris Bräuninger tanztherapie@swissonline.ch Switzerland
An: "lisa" lisa-dmt@pchs.net CC: adta@adta.org Dance therapy association
Dear AMANDA GIFFORD and dance movement therapy (dmt) colleagues, here are some reference links on research on the power and effects of dance/movement therapy on the health of the individual, which you might want to quote in the Arts Reach 2004.
Bojner Horwitz, E., Theorell, T. & Anderberg, U.M. (2003). Dance/movement therapy and changes in stress-related hormones: a study of fibromylagia patients with video-interpretation. The Arts in
Psychotherapy, 30 (5), 255-264
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Brooks, D. & Stark, A. (1989). The effects of dance/movement therapy on affect: A pilot study. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 11 (2), 101-112.
Cruz, R. F. & Sabers, D. L (1998). Dance/movement therapy is more effective than previously reported. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 25 (2), 101-104.
Dosamantes-Alperson, E. & Merrill, N. (1980). Growth effects of experimential movement psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Theory, Research, and Practice, 17 (1), 63-68.
Erwin-Grabner, T., Goodill, S.W., Schelly Hill, E. & von Neida, K. (1999). Effectiveness on Reducing Test Anxiety, American Journal of Dance Therapy, 21 (1), 19-34.
Ritter, M. & Low, K.G. (1996). Effects of dance/movement therapy: A Meta-Analysis. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 23, 249-260.
Additionally, there are presentation abstracts on the efficacy of d/mt, printed in the Colloquium's Brochure of the First International Research Coloquium in Dance/Movement Therapy, Germany/Hannover, 13.-15.02.2004 (accecable through info@btd-tanztherapie.de)
Bojner Horwitz, E. (2004) Dance/movement therapy and changes in stress-related hormones: a study of fibromyalgia patients with video-interpretation. Paper presented at the 1. International Research
Colloquium in Dance/Movement Therapy, BTD, 13.-14. Februar 2004, preceeding the 10th annual BTD membership assembly in D-Hannover.
Bräuninger, I. (2004). Dance/movement therapy as stress management and improvement in quality of life: Results of a randomized control study. Paper presented at the 1. International Research Colloquium in
Dance/Movement Therapy, BTD, 13.-14. Februar 2004, preceeding the 10th annual BTD membership assembly in D-Hannover.
Mannheim, E. (2004). Dance/movement therapy as a clinical intervention method in oncological rehabilitation. Evaluation of treatment effects - Results of Phase I. Paper presented at the 1. International Research
Colloquium in Dance/Movement Therapy, BTD, 13.-14. Februar 2004, preceeding the 10th annual BTD membership assembly in D-Hannover.
Rodríguez Cigaran, S. (2004). The effects of Dance movement therapy work on patients with fibromyalgia. Paper presented at the 1. International Research Colloquium in Dance/Movement Therapy, 13.-14.02.2004,
preceeding the 10th annual BTD membership assembly in D-Hannover.
Best regards, Iris Braeuninger, M.A., DTR, BTD trainer
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Sabine.Koch@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE writes:
Sherry Goodills Book will be a great resource to quote. I do not know, wheather it is out yet. Please address her via the listserv or directly at Sherry.Goodill@drexel.edu. Additionally, I am attaching the programm of the International Dance/Movement Therapy Research Colloquium in Hannover, Germany, 13./14.02.04. The work of Braeuninger, of Mannheim, of Rodriguez, and of Boyner Horwitz will be great resources for medical research (you can quote them as presentations and/or posters). There is
a brochure with the abstracts of the colloquium you can order at: btdev@yahoo.de for 8 Euro.
Best, Sabine Koch, Germany
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HOORAY: The ARTS recognized. Send to every educator and administrative official you can. Thanks to Francine on the Canadian AT List Serve Blog
site: http://ait-research.blog-city.com/read/642758.htm
FYI: This is a free download not to be missed. Roberta
Eloquent Evidence: Arts at the Core of Learning The arts are serious and rigorous academic subjects. They are an essential aspect of human knowing. The following paper explains the evidence behind art practices and how they can support learning at a number of levels. The complete text can be accessed here: http://www.nasaa-arts.org/nasaanews/ee.pdf
The arts convey knowledge and meaning not learned through the study of other subjects. They represent a form of thinking and a way of knowing that is based in human imagination and judgment. The arts delight students, but they are also intellectual disciplines of substance. Like language or mathematics, the arts involve the use of complex symbols to communicate.
To attain competence in the arts, it is necessary to gain literacy with these symbol systems. Some, like music and painting, use nonverbal symbols; others, like poetry and song, use language in particular ways. Arts teachers daily ask their students to engage in learning activities which require use of higher-order thinking skills like analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Arts education, then, is first of all an activity of the mind.
Complete article here: http://www.nasaa-arts.org/nasaanews/ee.pdf
„Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets, [and] also those of artists, musicians, philosophers, historians,
writers in general.‰ Lewis Thomas, Scientist
Entire paper, available for download, at: http://www.nasaa-arts.org/nasaanews/ee.pdf
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Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT Assistant Professor Kansas State University
129 Nichols Hall Manhattan, KS 66056-2301 writes:
(first a quote) "Play is the greatest form of research" --- Albert Einstein
then
There is a journal put out by the Dana Foundation called "Cerebrum" They typically have at least one article on the arts or the arts therapies and the brain each year. Most recently, in the Spring 2003 issue (Vol. 5,
Number 2), there was an article entitled "The Dancing Brain" by Ivar Hagendoorn who was a dancer who became a neurologist in order to understand how and why we dance and are moved by dancing. In Winter 2002, Volume 4, Issue 1, there was an article "How Music Can Reach the Silenced Brain." by
Concetta M. Tamaino which talked about music therapy with stroke patients. Also in the same issue was an article "In Terror's Grip: Healing the Ravages of Trauma" by Bessel van der Kolk in which he talked about his
theatre troupe for traumatized teens in Boston. He's found talk therapy doesn't work with PTSD, but the arts and embodied therapies do. Volume 2, Number 4, Fall 2000 had "In Search of the Musical Mind" by Daniel J. Levitin
I would think that the American Music Therapy Association could refer people to articles/studies on music and healing. I have a sense that there's been a lot of work done in this area, just as the past several
emails have indicated there has been a lot of work done in this area with dance/movement therapy. AMTA's website is www.musictherapy.org http://www.musictherapy.org They have an index of their journal in which research has been published on line. You might want to check with Judy Simpson, who works in their office, as well.
Helga Noice and Tony Noice have done a lot of research on memory studying how actors memorize lines and movement. They've recently done several studies looking at how involvement in theatre can help older adults improve their memory. "Improving Memory in Older Adults by Instructing Them in Professional Actors' Learning Strategies" in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Aug. 1999, Vol 13 (4), 315-328.
In a similiar vein there's a chapter entitled "Beyond Verbal Memory -- Enhancing Memory by Acting" by Monika Knopf in the book "Mood and Cognitive Disorders: Facts and Research in Gerontology" ed. by Bruno J. Vellas published in 1995 by Springer.
The other thing I've recently run across is an article in Theatre Topics, Volume 12, Number 2, Sept. 2002, a journal put out by ATHE (American Theatre in Higher Education) entitled "Reconsidering Stanislavsky: Feeling, Feminism, and the Actor" by Rhonda Blair in which the author draws parallels between what has been discovered about the brain in the last 10 years, particularly work by Antonio Damasio, and Stanislavsky's method which intuitively utilizes brain structure to help actors get in touch with the characters they are trying to portray.
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Adam Blatner, M.D.
(please reply to adam@blatner.com
website: www.blatner.com/adam/ http://www.blatner.com/adam/
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