Dance Movement Psychotherapy MA

You’ll study modules such as:

Placement modules are an important component of your development; you’ll study them over two years, beginning with this module. You will apply your learning in clinical settings and deepen your understanding through supervision and reflection on your practice. This module is delivered face to face. You will learn the process of negotiation with other professionals and reflection with your peers and the particular way that you develop through the placement as a professional and will discuss the issues of working in particular contexts.

During this module, you’ll build on your placement experience from year one. You’ll develop your own personal style based on reflective practice, identifying and justifying your interventions. This module develops your understanding of the relationship between theory and practice, and helps you consider how your ideas can be developed for research and practice.

This module covers theoretical and practical skills in models of working and research. You’ll study anthropological and sociological aspects of dance movement psychotherapy and its historical, contemporary, and cultural context.

There will be practical and experiential ways of exploring this module. You will develop your skills at presenting particular research and your own personal ideas within a Dance Movement Psychotherapy context.

In a group setting that includes tutors, you’ll explore your emotional responses and use of movement and dance to gain a better understanding of both your own and your clients’ reactions. There will be use of props and developing your ideas through journaling and exploring personal experience and analysis of movement.

During this triple module, you’ll conduct a major piece of independently researched work. This module uses your own responses to clinical issues and develops your thinking and practice over a whole year using performance and the understanding and personal responses to the therapeutic relationship. The end of the module celebrates the students own journey through dance and its relationship to other sensory experience with a performance.

You’ll look at the role of improvisation and its relationship to movement analysis and the use of movement as a psychotherapeutic intervention. Students will learn about their own personal movement preferences and the way that they relate through understanding the significance of the movement.

During this module, you’ll study the relationship of body and mind, examining the effects of the mind on the body, and the role of the body in psychotherapeutic work. This module will involve experience of the body reflected in theory and understanding.