dance therapist
Dance therapists support individuals with their emotional, mental or physical health problems helping them to improve their body awareness, self-esteem, social integration and personal development through dance and movement patterns within a therapeutic environment.
Also called: movement therapist
- 16
- essential skills
- 21
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2269
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Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
16- assess the patient's therapeutic needs
- dance therapy
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop codified movements
- develop creative ideas
- harmonise body movements
- have emotional intelligence
- inspire enthusiasm for dance
- link between dance and music style
- listen actively
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- observe healthcare users
- perform dances
- provide health education
- psychological theories
- write work-related reports
Optional skills
21- apply organisational techniques
- apply risk management in sports
- autism
- be a role model in community arts
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- develop methods for choreographic integration
- diagnose mental disorders
- eating disorders
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluation of psychological performance
- handle patient trauma
- human physiology
- perform musical improvisations in therapy
- plan choreographic improvisation
- psychology
- psychotherapy principles
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use communication techniques
- work with healthcare users' social network
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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