We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
"We Dance and Find Each Other": Effects of Dance/Movement Therapy on Negative Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Authors
Hildebrandt, Malin K.; Koch, Sabine C.; Fuchs, Thomas
- Abstract
The treatment of deficits in social interaction, a shared symptom cluster in persons with schizophrenia (negative symptoms) and autism spectrum disorder (DSM-5 A-criterion), has so far remained widely unsuccessful in common approaches of psychotherapy. The alternative approach of embodiment brings to focus body-oriented intervention methods based on a theoretic framework that explains the disorders on a more basic level than common theory of mind approaches. The randomized controlled trial at hand investigated the effects of a 10-week manualized dance and movement therapy intervention on negative symptoms in participants with autism spectrum disorder. Although the observed effects failed to reach significance at the conventional 0.05 th, possibly due to an undersized sample, an encouraging trend towards stronger symptom reduction in the treatment group for overall negative symptoms and for almost all subtypes was found at the 0.10-level. Effect sizes were small but clinically meaningful, and the resulting patterns were in accordance with theoretical expectations. The study at hand contributes to finding an effective treatment approach for autism spectrum disorder in accordance with the notion of embodiment.
- Subjects
DANCE therapy; TREATMENT of developmental disabilities; AUTISM spectrum disorders; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL interaction; RANDOMIZED controlled trials
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences (2076-328X), 2016, Vol 6, Issue 4, pbs6040024
- ISSN
2076-328X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bs6040024