Review / Mid-Term Quiz

 

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 Unit: Assessment

 Theme: Mid-Term Quiz

 

Introduction

Every semester I assess your understanding of the content covered so far. Just right before the progress report's dead line, you test your own abilities to retain some of the themes we have learned and experienced together.  Today's quiz evaluates how efficient I have been in communicating ideas about DMT based on your responses to the questions below.

 

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Objectives

  • Understand the nature of self-assessment
  • Make sense of the various concepts explored in class
  • Gather an awareness of assessment that is conducive to further learning
  • Experience what is like to put into practice the content learned in class

 

III

 

Check  in

 

IV

 

Main Lesson





VOCABULARY


1.The Circle:

The circle represents a powerful symbol with perceived characteristics of totality, wholeness and completeness. Forming a circle is used frequently in Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), emerging on several occasions during a DMT session, especially when working with the model which originated with Marian Chace.

2. Collective Body Memory:

Habitual and embodied forms of ritualized interactions take place in groups. This creates a kind of memory formation that transcends the individual to become "collective body memory." This inter-bodily basis of collective memory is most evident through ritualized and synchronized movements and performances which contribute to building human culture.
  3. Dance Movement Therapy:
Dance/movement therapy (DMT) is defined by the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) as the psycho-therapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual, for the purpose of improving health and well-being.


4. Mirroring / Reflecting:

Mirroring in DMT is an “active interaction” (Karkou, 2004) between the two. ... describe mirroring as an exercise that deepens the level of empathy, it enhances “understanding of others' emotional intentions through enhanced use of mirror neurons circuitry”.


5. Kinesthetic Empathy:

It is a core concept in dance movement therapy. Broadly speaking kinesthesia can be understood as sensation of move-ment and posture, and empathy as the ability to un-derstand and respond to somebody else's inner experience. Kinesthetic empathy is therefore seen as the ability to understand somebody else's inner experience through body movement sensing. 

6. Attunement:

An aspect of kines-thetic empathy, which“involves matching some qualitative aspects of a movement without reflecting it exactly. Its purpose is to bring people into a harmonius, responsive relationship Attunement is a two-part process: “the sense of being fully aware of the other person's sensations, needs, or feelings and the communication of that awareness to the other person”. Attunement in this way goes beyond em-pathy–it provides a reciprocal affect and/or resonating response. Successful attunement leads us to feel under-stood and safe and thus ready to connect with each other. 


7. Joining:

Marian Chace emphatically involved herself in the subjective experience of the patient, joining him/her 'where and how he is" (Chaiklin and Wengrower 33).
 
 
8. Laban’s Cube  
 
9. Purposeful movement



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A Note to Remember
 
Notice that this assessment is based on an honor system. My objective is that you explain these concepts in your own words.
 
 
 
 
VI
 
 Case Study 
 
The Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies derives from  Hancock Center for Dance/Movement Therapy founded in 1983. Hancock Center is expanding its focus to provide more creative arts psychotherapy services to people of all ages and abilities, on-site in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.  
 
Rena Kornblum, featured in this video, is a board-certified dance/movement therapist with over 40 years of professional experience as a dance/movement therapist. She is also a professor in the University of Wisconsin and the Dance Movement Therapy Certificate Director. Deborah Thomas was the Clinical Supervisor, Consultant and Founder (in memoriam) of The Hancock Center.
 
In this video, they explain how children face all kinds of challenges from personal mental health issues to bullying in schools to issues in the home. For these reasons, The Hancock Center for Dance/Movement Therapy in Madison, Wis., created a program that uses movement and dance in schools to teach kids about healthy boundaries, expressing their feelings, and how to stay safe. 
 

 
 

 
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Discussion Questions
 
1. What is the significance of the circle for dance/movement therapy?
2. What is dance/movement therapy (DMT)?
3. How would you define the check-in part of a DMT session?
4. In your own words explain what collective body memory could mean?

 5. Based on the exercise we did in class; how would you describe mirroring?
 6. According to Danielle Fraenkel Kinesthetic Empathy is a key concept in DMT. Explain
 7. Why is attunement and important aspect of DMT?
8. What was Marian Chace doing when she joined her clients?

9. Mention the benefits of Rudolph Laban's cube when working with your clients.

 10. When we watched the film "The Power of Movement," how was purposeful movement used by Sharon Chaiklin in her group therapy session?
 
11.  In which way is Ana Halprin's methodology a useful way of doing community therapy?

12. After watching the case study above, explain how is DMT important when working with children.
 
13. Why is Patricia Capello's method effective when working with psychiatric patients?

14. Which exercise, of the many done so far, has best resonated with your own learning style, your life experiences or expectations since the beginning of the  semester? Explain why.


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 VIII

Activity

 

 PRAXIS

 Gather with your group and device a DMT group therapy session with a population of your choice. Apply the concepts covered in class: warm up, development (theme,  climax or release) , closing. 


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Journaling


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Glossary


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Sources


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Students' Work from other semesters


Group 1

Group 2

 
Group 3


Group 4




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