Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse

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.

Part I. Dance Movement Therapy with Children 1. Memory and Forgetfulness in Dance-Movement Therapy with Children who have Undergone Sexual Trauma 2. Diagnosis and Assessment of Sexual Abuse in Childhood Based on Bodily Expression Part II. Dance Movement Therapy with Adolescents 3. From the Freeze Response to Free Flow in Dance-Movement Therapy with Sexually Abused Adolescent Girls 4. A renewed observation of the treatment of sexual abuse in a therapeutic setting for eating disorders Part III. Dance Movement Therapy with Adults 5. Focused Therapy for Victims of Sexual Trauma in a Psychiatric Ward 6. The Dance not Danced: Working with Movement to Develop Compassionate Relationships and Emotional Growth 7. Identifying and Giving Meaning to Body and Movement Messages in Women Diagnosed with Complex PTSD 8. Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Abuse from Mother to Son 9. ‘Ground Zero Moments’ – The Transformative Moments in Movement and in the Experience of the Mind 10. Whose Body is in the Room? One Question, Changing Answers