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MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy

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Full time | University of Roehampton | 2 years | SEP-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

2 years

Start date

SEP-24

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Dance Therapy Psychotherapy Dance

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Build a rewarding career as a professionally-qualified registered dance movement psychotherapist.?Graduates are eligible to register with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK (subject to reaccreditation). This programme is designed for people who have prior dance experience and professional?or volunteering experience with people in need.

Dance movement psychotherapy is a relational process in which a client and therapist engage in an empathetic creative process using body movement and dance to assist the integration of emotional, cognitive, physical, social and spiritual aspects of self. We believe that focusing on the creative potential of individuals in a relationship creates a sound ethical basis for psychotherapeutic work.

You will be taught by leading experts who will equip you with the skills, experience, and confidence to work as a dance movement psychotherapist.

How you'll learn

Our uniquely interdisciplinary MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy integrates theoretical, experiential and clinical learning, preparing students to practice as dance movement psychotherapists. Practice-based research cascades into teaching emphasising the social, biological and psychological construction of the moving body and meaning-making. The programme offers opportunities for you to explore and expand movement preferences, ways of interacting with others, belief systems, prejudices and values. Emphasis is placed on development of your own style as a dance movement psychotherapist. You also have the opportunity to perform and exhibit your ongoing work in a yearly Arts Therapies exhibition.

The MA in DMP benefits from tutors’ practice-based research, which feeds directly in teaching.

The programme ethos emphasises a critical consideration of different descriptions and explanations of bodies, human systems and therapeutic practices in different places and times. In the context of an individual student's experiences, beliefs, values and different 'cultures', our teaching actively promotes a participatory ethic, self-reflexive practices and the ability for critical reflection on: creative processes, intersubjectivity and the construction of social and power differentials, in learning and in psychotherapy..

Career options

Graduates can enter a variety of roles including: NHS clinical practice within in and outpatient services, community services, prison services, special needs schools, performing arts contexts, drug rehabilitation, in social services with immigrants and asylum seekers, in shelters with women who have suffered domestic abuse, dementia services, learning disabilities services, child and adolescent mental health services.

Modules

This module aims to generate critical thinking about Dance Movement Psychotherapy in practice and to sensitise students to the different languages and systems within psychiatry, mental health and education. It provides an opportunity for a critical evaluation of standard approaches to diagnosis in mental health settings with particular emphasis on clinical, social and structural contexts in the use of diagnostic criteria and clinical interventions.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£13,782

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£18,900

Entry requirements

Applicants will normally be required to hold a good second-class honours degree (or above); in most cases this will be in a dance-related discipline or a clinically related discipline such as Dance, Psychology, Mental Health (Psychiatric) Nursing, or Social Work etc. Alternatively graduate level professional qualifications in appropriate disciplines such as Dance, Drama, Performing Arts, Occupational Therapy, Probation Officers or Social Work, are also accepted.

University information

Located in south-west London, the University of Roehampton London has a 54-acre parkland campus with state-of-the-art facilities, located within 30 minutes of central London. The university has a long history dating back over 180 years. Through its oldest college, Whitelands, it has provided higher education to women for longer than any university in the country. Today, it has a thriving range of postgraduate programmes and an excellent...more