Date of Award
5-2018
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
MS in Dance/Movement Therapy
Department
Dance/Movement Therapy Graduate Program
Abstract
Children are often overlooked when violence between two parents occurs. As a result, they grow up with the potential to become adults who repeat their parents’ violent actions or become victims of violence. This theory based study aims to highlight the often secretive nature of domestic violence between parental figures, heighten awareness of the effects of child exposure to the violence, reveal how those effects manifest in them as adults, and educate readers about the power of the body during traumatizing events. Through this study, a modality is offered for processing those traumatic experiences using the body through movement. That modality is dance/movement therapy.
Recommended Citation
Reyes, Kristen Taylor, "More Than a Witness: How Dance/Movement Therapy Uses the Body for Processing Exposure to Interparental Violence" (2018). Dance/Movement Therapy Theses. 39.
https://digitalcommons.slc.edu/dmt_etd/39