TY - JOUR
T1 - Dance/Movement Therapy and emotional well-being for adults with Intellectual Disabilities
AU - Barnet-Lopez, Silvia
AU - Pérez-Testor, Susana
AU - Cabedo-Sanromà, Josep
AU - Oviedo, Guillermo R.
AU - Guerra-Balic, Myriam
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was conducted with the support with a grant provided by de Fundació Blanquerna, Beca Recerca Blanquerna (Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Lull). This research was partially financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the National RDI Plan ( DEP2012-38984 ). The authors would like to thank the Ramon Noguera Foundation for their collaboration, and the staff for their support during the study. We also would like to thank the participants who engaged actively throughout the entire study, and Cristina Mumbardó, Helena Sendra and Elena Carrillo, PhD for their support with the English language.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - The connection between mind and body is activated through Dance/Movement Therapy (D/MT). This connection promotes the integration of emotional, cognitive and physical dimensions of a person. This study focused on emotional well-being, understood as a dimension within the construct of quality of life. The improvement of emotional well-being was examined in adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) who participated in an intervention program of 26 sessions in D/MT. The intervention group comprised 22 adults with ID (n = 22; 47.27 ± 11.67 years) (12 male). The control group were 20 adults with ID (n = 20; 48.15 ± 12.46 years) (12 male). The Koppitz human figure drawing test was applied to evaluate the emotional indicators before and after the program.The results indicated statistically significant improvements in the emotional well-being in the intervention group after the D/MT program (p = 0.007) in comparison to the control group (p = 0.560). D/MT can be an appropriate approach when working with adults with ID to provide them with support, and to increase quality of life specifically emotional well-being.
AB - The connection between mind and body is activated through Dance/Movement Therapy (D/MT). This connection promotes the integration of emotional, cognitive and physical dimensions of a person. This study focused on emotional well-being, understood as a dimension within the construct of quality of life. The improvement of emotional well-being was examined in adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) who participated in an intervention program of 26 sessions in D/MT. The intervention group comprised 22 adults with ID (n = 22; 47.27 ± 11.67 years) (12 male). The control group were 20 adults with ID (n = 20; 48.15 ± 12.46 years) (12 male). The Koppitz human figure drawing test was applied to evaluate the emotional indicators before and after the program.The results indicated statistically significant improvements in the emotional well-being in the intervention group after the D/MT program (p = 0.007) in comparison to the control group (p = 0.560). D/MT can be an appropriate approach when working with adults with ID to provide them with support, and to increase quality of life specifically emotional well-being.
KW - Dance/Movement therapy
KW - Emotional well-being
KW - Intellectual disability
KW - Quality of life
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U2 - 10.1016/j.aip.2016.08.002
DO - 10.1016/j.aip.2016.08.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84983507760
SN - 0197-4556
VL - 51
SP - 10
EP - 16
JO - Arts in Psychotherapy
JF - Arts in Psychotherapy
ER -
