Course description: This course provides an introduction to a clinical focus on older adults for the dance/movement therapist. Students will examine theoretical and practical concepts related to aging, including typical, healthy aging issues and pathology more commonly encountered with this sub-population (i.e. neurocognitive decline). Thomas Kitwood’s Person-Centered Care paradigm will be taught as a framework through which to view DMT interventions and the therapeutic movement relationship as a whole. Awareness of elder abuse will be promoted via review of its definition and our obligations as mandated reporters. Through various experiential learning approaches, DMT facilitation skills emphasized in work with older adult clients will be introduced and applied.
1 credit hours/15 contact hours ADTA approved
AR-DMT theory & practice hours
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