Introduction

The MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy provides graduates with a route to a qualification and licence to practice with the Association for Dance Movement Therapy (ADMT UK), in alignment with Health Professions Council. Students will have the opportunity to build on their previous educational studies through a challenging educational and practice experience, which combines applied theoretical concepts with practice placements during which knowledge and skills for practice will be gained. The three-year part-time programme is run in collaboration with Dance Voice Education and Therapy Centre, in Bristol.

There is rapidly increasing recognition of the positive impact that art therapies have on people’s health especially within the areas of mental health and dementia. Requests for trained and experienced professionals in DMT are increasing, following the advent of HPC registration for Dance Movement Therapy as a state registered profession and the successful integration of Dance Movement Therapists.

Programme Structure

Students will progress through the Masters towards an award in stages. All modules are compulsory

Stage 1: Postgraduate Certificate in Dance Movement: The Therapeutic Process

3 Modules (60 credits):

• Orientation to Dance Movement Psychotherapy in Humanistic, Person-Centred Practice
• The Moving Body in Dance Movement Psychotherapy
• Developmental Psychology - external and internal influences on health and wellbeing

Stage 2: Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

3 Modules (60 credits):

• Professional Practice as a Dance Movement Therapist
• Movement Observation and Interventions
• The Autonomous, Research- Based Practitioner

Stage 3: MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy

3 modules (60 credits)

• Developing a Research Proposal OR Developing a Research Proposal: Critical Evaluation of Professional Practice (20 credits)
• Research Dissertation (2x 20 = 40credits)

Entry Requirements

Applicants should normally possess:

• First Degree – honours: range of subject areas relevant (e.g. dance, psychology, education, childhood studies) with normally 1st class or second class degree,


• or have a recognized academic professional qualification in a health related field such as Nursing, Psychology, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Counselling, with additional evidence of ability to study at Postgraduate level.


• In exceptional circumstances candidates with significant experience of working in this field who produce a satisfactory portfolio of evidence demonstrating their ability to study at this level, may be accepted.

All candidates will be expected to:

• have experience of at least one dance or movement form
• have personal maturity commensurate with training as a therapist
• demonstrate the ability to use dance and/or movement expressively at audition
• demonstrate the ability to study at M level during interview with DVET, Bristol.
• have an enhanced CRB clearance
• where English is not a first language students should have an IELTS of 7.5 or above

Mode of attendance

The course:

• is part time
• is located at the Dance Voice Education and Therapy centre in Bristol.
• Commences in September each year.

Exit Awards

• Post Graduate Certificate in Dance Movement and the Therapeutic Process
• Post Graduate Diploma in Dance Movement Psychotherapy
• MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy

How to Apply

For more information about the course and how to apply, visit: www.dancevoice.org.uk
Email: admin@dancevoice.org.uk or call Dance Voice on 0117 953 2055.

Or contact Academic Link Manager - Maureen Williams
Telephone: 01634 894518
Email: maureen.williams@canterbury.ac.uk

Fees

For information on current tuition fees, please visit our finance pages.