Social Justice in Dance/Movement Therapy: Practice, Research and Education

This book demonstrates the use of dance/movement therapy to directly  counteract social injustices and promote healing in international  settings. It also demonstrates the potential for dance/movement therapy  in prevention and wellness in clinical and community settings. The use  of improvisational and creative dance is presented throughout the book  as a tremendously clear, strong and powerful inroad to healing in every  setting. The chapters in this book do not directly address social  justice in dance/movement therapy, but rather provide provoking social  justice related positions. This call for a provoking re-examination of  the definition of dance/movement therapy is fitting as we―as a  community―challenge our identity as dance/movement therapists,  educators, supervisors and as human beings who have internalized  oppression in various forms through our many identifiers and the unique  intersections of those identifiers. The editors and authors posit that  social justice cannot be fully addressed by focusing solely on the  social issues. Rather, we must be aware of where and how the social  issues come into the individual(s), the setting, and the therapy process  itself.