The training, which has been offered by some English Universities for several years now, equips practitioners to use dance and movement to help hard-to-reach clients who do not respond to traditional counselling.
It is the latest in art therapies, and dance movement psychotherapy could soon be offered to prisoners, dementia patients and children in care, as Scotland’s first graduates in the subject receive their masters degrees from Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University.
The training, which has been offered by some English Universities for several years now, equips practitioners to use dance and movement to help hard-to-reach clients who do not respond to traditional counselling.