Table Of ContentDance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse
Dance/Movement Therapy and Sexual Abuse addresses the vital role
dance/movement therapy plays in helping survivors of sexual abuse.
Comprising ten chapters, the book describes assessment, diagnosis, and
intervention techniques with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of sexual
abuse. Using case studies, contributing experts in the field offer the reader a
profound understanding of the therapeutic techniques related to movement
and the body for the emotional treatment of situations of sexual abuse. The
chapters delve into the healing components of treatment during childhood,
adolescence, and adulthood, and combine psychodynamic understandings
with body-mind theories, techniques from the area of somatic experience,
and bio-energetic analysis.
Full of in-depth and comprehensive therapeutic interventions using
dance/movement therapy to treat sexual trauma, this book will be an essen-
tial resource for dance/movement therapists and students of the creative
arts therapies.
Einat Shuper Engelhard is head of the Dance/Movement Therapy M.A.
training programme, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa’s School
of Creative Arts Therapies, and lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Educa-
tion, Israel.
Dance/Movement Therapy
and Sexual Abuse
Assessment and Intervention Based on
Body-Mind Approaches
Edited by Einat Shuper Engelhard
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Names: Engelhard, Einat Shuper, editor.
Title: Dance movement therapy and sexual abuse : assessment and
intervention based on body-mind approaches / edited by Einat Shuper
Engelhard.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the
Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and
index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2022037124 (print) | LCCN 2022037125 (ebook) | ISBN
9781032312910 (hbk) | ISBN 9781032312903 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003309048
(ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Sexual abuse victims--Rehabilitation. | Dance therapy.
Classification: LCC RC560.S44 D36 2023 (print) | LCC RC560.S44 (ebook) |
DDC 615.8/5155--dc23/eng/20221114
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037124
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037125
ISBN: 978-1-032-31291-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-31290-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-30904-8 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003309048
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface - Relearning the Body by Einat Shuper Engelhard x
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction: Coping with Trauma - A Body-Based
Intervention Model 1
DITA JUDITH FEDERMAN
PART I
Dance/Movement Therapy with Children 7
1 Memory and Forgetfulness in Dance/Movement
Therapy with Children Who Have Undergone Sexual Trauma 9
EINAT SHUPER ENGELHARD
2 Diagnosis and Assessment of Sexual Abuse in Childhood
Based on Bodily Expression 17
EINAT SHUPER ENGELHARD AND YANA SICHEL
PART II
Dance/Movement Therapy with Adolescents 33
3 From the Freeze Response to Free Flow in Dance
Movement Therapy with Sexually Abused Adolescent Girls 35
ORNA DRORI
4 A Renewed Observation of the Treatment of Sexual
Abuse in a Therapeutic Setting for Eating Disorders 54
MAAYAN DOR HAIM
vi Contents
PART III
Dance/Movement Therapy with Adults 73
5 Focused Therapy for Victims of Sexual Trauma in a
Psychiatric Ward 75
SIGAL NAHOR MICHAEL AND ARIELA LEV ROSENBLUM
6 The Dance Not Danced: Working with Movement to
Develop Compassionate Relationships and Emotional Growth 96
EINAV GOTTLIEB-ELIAZ
7 Identifying and Giving Meaning to Body and Movement
Messages in Women Diagnosed with Complex PTSD 104
RAVIT MALTZ SCHWARTZ
8 Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Abuse from
Mother to Son 120
ORIT ETZION-ROSENBERG
9 ‘Ground Zero Moments’: The Transformative Moments
in Movement and in the Experience of the Mind 131
YIFAT SHALEM-ZAFARI
10 Whose Body is in the Room? One Question,
Changing Answers 145
ORIT GROSS
Index 157
List of Contributors
Dor Haim, Maayan (M.A.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT supervisor,
certified supervisor, and bioenergetic analyst. She is a Graduate of Family
Therapy certification program at Shinui Institute. Since last 28 years,
she has been working at the Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Safra
Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. She
has published several articles about eating disorders. Private practice in
Tel Aviv, Israel.
Drori, Orna (M.A.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT supervisor, and
psychotherapist. She works at Merhavim Hospital-Medical Center, Beer
Yaakov-Ness Ziona Mental Health Center. She works at Maor Center
for children and adolescents who were sexually abused.
Etzion-Rosenberg, Orit (M.A.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT
supervisor and psychotherapist. She is running a private psychotherapy
clinic specializing in sexual abuse, trauma, and inter-generational
transference, as well as challenges related to sensual processing disorders
(SPD), hyperactivity, and attention deficit disorders (ADD/ADHD).
She also provides private therapy, group therapy, and staff mentorship
in shelters for survivors of family violence, aid centres for victims of
sexual assault, social services, and foster-care services, Psychological
Educational Centres, Ministry of Defense, and the Multidisciplinary
Center for Treatment of Sexual Assault and Incest Victims at the Bnai
Zion hospital, Haifa.
Federman, Dita Judith (Ph.D.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT
supervisor, and psychotherapist. She is a lecturer and senior researcher
at the University of Haifa’s School of Creative Arts Therapies &
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She has years of experience within
psychiatric settings, children, adults and geriatric population. Her
areas of interest are neurodegenerative disorders, trauma, chronic pain,
‘mindfulness’, and stress management. She has been developing her own
viii List of Contributors
form of ‘attentive movement’ with groups and individuals emphasising
the relation between movement, creativity, awareness, and their relation
to stress management.
Gottliieb-Eliaz, Einav (M.A.), is a dance-movement therapist and
psychotherapist at Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa.
Gross, Orit (M.A.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT supervisor
and psychotherapist. Previously, she was a lecturer and supervisor in
the Dance/Movement therapy Programme at the Kibbutzim College of
Education and Levinsky College, Israel, and also Beer Yaakov Mental
Health Center. Orit is a writer and creative artist, published articles in
journals and lectured at conferences on topics related to the body and
trauma, and published four books of prose (in Hebrew).
Maltz Schwartz, Ravit (M.A.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT
supervisor and psychotherapist at the Kibbutzim College of Education,
Merhavim Hospital-Medical Center, Beer Yaakov-Ness Ziona Mental
Health Center, Israel.
Nahor Michael, Sigal (M.A.), is a dance--movement therapist, DMT
supervisor, and psychotherapist at the Ziv Medical Center, Safed.
Rosenblum, Ariela Lev, is an occupational therapist, B.O.T, M.Sc.O.T. at
Ziv Medical Center, Safed.
Shalem-Zafari, Yifat (Ph.D.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT
supervisor, and candidate at the Israeli Institute for Jungian Psychology
in honour of Erich Neumann. She is a lecturer at the School of Creative
Arts Therapies, David Yellin College of Education, Jerusalem, and at the
School for Society and Arts-Ono. She worked as the coordinator for
the Creative Arts Therapies at the Jerusalem Center for Mental Health.
There she established the unit for victims of sexual abuse and developed
the dyadic treatment in the inpatient unit for mothers with postpartum
and their infants. Counsellor at the Therapeutic Center for Youth at
Risk-Denmark. Her articles have been published in journals around the
world.
Shuper Engelhard, Einat (Ph.D.), is a dance-movement therapist, DMT
supervisor and psychotherapist. She is a senior lecturer and head of the
Dance/Movement Therapy M.A. training programme at the School of
Creative Arts Therapies, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences,
University of Haifa, Israel, researcher at the Emili Sagol CAT Research
Center, and lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel. She
worked as a therapist with Holocaust survivors and in various Israeli
kindergartens and high schools with children suffering from emotional
List of Contributors ix
difficulties and developmental problems. Her articles, which deal with
childhood trauma, adolescence, parenting, and couple relationships,
have been published in leading journals in Israel and around the world.
Sichel, Yana (M.A.), is a dance-movement therapist. She works at child
mental health clinic in (Ekhad Ha’am), Maale Hacarmel, Haifa.
