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MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy

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    MA 2 years full-time or 3 years part-time

Masters Degree Description

This programme provides you with a broad understanding of the theories and practices of dance movement therapy necessary for safe and effective clinical work, and enables you to practise as a dance movement psychotherapist.

  • Your learning will be underpinned by the principles and practices of psychodynamic psychotherapy within the social, political and multicultural context of mental health care and educational settings. Study is informed by contemporary dance practice, Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and somatic bodywork.
  • Through theoretical studies, movement observation studies, dance practice workshops, clinical work and experiential learning, you integrate cognitive understanding and practical experience with a developing awareness of self and other.

  • The MA aims to enhance your self-knowledge and interpersonal relationships and to promote your psychodynamic understanding of individuals, groups and society – working with questions of difference, equality and diversity.
  • The nature of the therapeutic relationship is explored in depth through movement and dance and you have the opportunity to put your learning into practice through at least 90 days of supervised placements. This gives you the opportunity to relate your practical experience to your theoretical studies.

  • You'll be encouraged to develop your own dance/movement practice and to situate your work in relation to your development as a therapist, to contemporary dance and movement practice. You're required to be in personal therapy throughout the programme (please note that this is at your own cost).

  • On graduation you are eligible to become a registered professional member of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK.

Entry Requirements

You should have:

  • an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in a relevant/related subject or, if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.
  • A minimum of two years’ experience in dance and/or movement forms
  • experience of paid or voluntary work in health, social, education or community services

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Fees

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Programme Funding

Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Student Destinations

Examples of places that DMP MA graduates are currently working:

  • Mainstream, special and therapeutic schools.
  • Pupil referral units
  • Organisations for adoption and fostering
  • Children and adults in not-for-profit organisations
  • Drugs intervention team
  • Addictions service
  • Dance for Parkinsons
  • Prisons
  • Community, creative and therapeutic dance for children and adults
  • Dance therapy and mindfulness based approaches
  • Honorary DMP contract –  NHS Trust
  • Sessional DMP work for C.I.C ‘Dance and Dementia’.
  • Creative Therapist, NHS Foundation Trust, CAMHS Specialist Intervention Team
  • Lecturing (e.g. UEL  on use of the body in the counselling/therapy relationship
  • PhD study

Module Details

Experiential Learning 1 30 credits
Clinical Placement 1 A 0 credits
Clinical Placement 1 B 45 credits
Theory and Practice of Dance Movement Psychotherapy 1 A 0 credits
Theory and Practice of Dance Movement Psychotherapy 1 B 45 credits
Clinical Placement 2 45 credits
Experiential Learning 2 A 15 credits
Experiential Learning 2 B 0 credits
Theory and Practice of Dance Movement Psychotherapy 2 A 0 credits
Theory and Practice of Dance Movement Psychotherapy 2 B 60 credits 

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