1st Edition

Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse Assessment and Intervention Based on Body-Mind Approaches

Edited By Einat Shuper Engelhard Copyright 2023
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse addresses the vital role dance/movement therapy plays in helping survivors of sexual abuse. Comprising ten chapters, the book describes assessment, diagnosis and intervention techniques with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of sexual abuse. Using case studies, contributing experts in the field offer the reader a profound understanding of the... Read more

Introduction: Coping with Trauma – A Body-based Intervention Model

Dita Federman

Part I. Dance Movement Therapy with Children  

1. Memory and Forgetfulness in Dance-Movement Therapy with Children who have Undergone Sexual Trauma 

Einat Shuper Engelhard

2. Diagnosis and Assessment of Sexual Abuse in Childhood Based on Bodily Expression 

Einat Shuper Engelhard & Yana Sichel

Part II. Dance Movement Therapy with Adolescents 

3. From the Freeze Response to Free Flow in Dance-Movement Therapy with Sexually Abused Adolescent Girls

Orna Drori

 4. A renewed observation of the treatment of sexual abuse in a therapeutic setting for eating disorders

Maayan Dor Haim

Part III.  Dance Movement Therapy with Adults 

5. Focused Therapy for Victims of Sexual Trauma in a Psychiatric Ward

Michael & Ariela Lev Rosenblum

6. The Dance not Danced: Working with Movement to Develop Compassionate Relationships and Emotional Growth

Einav Gottlieb-Eliaz

7. Identifying and Giving Meaning to Body and Movement Messages in Women Diagnosed with Complex PTSD

Ravit Maltz Schwartz

8. Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Abuse from Mother to Son

Orit Etzion Rosenberg

9. ‘Ground Zero Moments’ – The Transformative Moments in Movement and in the Experience of the Mind

Yifat Shalem-Zafari

10. Whose Body is in the Room? One Question, Changing Answers

Orit Gross

Biography

Einat Shuper Engelhard is head of the Dance/Movement Therapy M.A. training program, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa’s School of Creative Arts Therapies, and lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel.