Movement therapy is an exciting and innovative treatment for a number of different personal, mental health, and behavioral issues. Apollo Counseling employ's a professional ADTR therapist, Ashley Ostroski. Ashley received her undergratuate degree in Iowa from Simpson College and attended an accredited Master's Dregree program at Drexel University in Philidelphia, PA for her Master's in Counseling with an emphsis in Dance/Movement Therapy. Ashley has experience working with children and adults of many different backgrounds and implementing this form of interventional therapy. Ashley currently works with families, individuals, and small groups on a case by case basis, but has expereince in using DMT in a program and school setting. Apollo will be adding sessions open for anyone to enroll expected sometime in March 2009. Apollo CRC is happy to work with and collaborate with other private agencies and schools to develop and offer programs in those settings.
For more information on what Dance/Movement Therapy is and does please review these informational brochures and pages:
Dance and Movement Therapy is new to Iowa and has been recommended by medical professionals as an appropriate and effective way to treat and address a number of mental health, trauma, and medical issues in diverse settings.
The following conditions and diagnosis can be addressed through DMT, click on the item and you will be lead to an informational sheet about areas DMT will address.
The following video shows and reports on the benefits and success of using DMT with Autism Treatments.
Dance/movement therapists are employed in a wide variety of facilities as well as private practice. They address the needs of a broad spectrum of people, including those with specific disorders and disabilities.
"What type of education and training are Dance/Movement Therapist's Required to Have?"
Professional training of dance/movement therapists occurs on the graduate level, and the Masters is the terminal degree. The ADTA publishes a list of colleges and universities that provide appropriate education and training, and the association has established an approval procedure for granting recognition to those institutions that fulfill the guidelines for graduate degree programs.
"Can Dance/Movement Therapist obtain Iowa Professional Licensure for Mental Health Therapy?"
As of February 1999 the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. (NBCC) and the ADTA have outlined a formal affiliation that designates the ADTR credential in dance/movement therapy as a counseling specialty credential. This agreement allows dance/movement therapists who meet the educational and training standards under the agreement to have a special application option for taking the NCC exam, thereby allowing ADTRs who have met the educational and training standards under the agreement to apply for the NCC credential.
FACTS ABOUT DANCE/MOVEMENT THERAPY
As defined by the American Dance Therapy Association, “dance/movement therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement as a process which furthers the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical integration of the individual.”
Dance/movement therapy emerged as a distinct profession in the 1940s.
The American Dance Therapy Association was formed in 1966. It maintains a code of ethics and has established standards for professional practice, education, and training.
Dance/movement therapy is an effective treatment for people with developmental, medical, social, physical, and psychological impairments.
Dance/movement therapy is practiced in mental health, rehabilitation, medical, educational, and forensic settings, and in nursing homes, day care centers, disease prevention, and health promotion programs.
Dance/movement therapy is used with people of all ages, races, and ethnic backgrounds in individual, couple, family, and group therapy formats.
Entry into the profession of dance/movement therapy is at the master’s level. The title Dance Therapist Registered (DTR) is granted to entry level dance/movement therapists who have completed a master’s degree, which includes 700 supervised clinical internship hours. The advanced level of registry, Academy of Dance Therapists Registered (ADTR), is awarded only after DTRs have completed 3,640 hours of supervised clinical work in an agency, institution or special school, with additional supervision from an ADTR.
As of February 1999 the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. (NBCC) and the ADTA designated the ADTR credential as the appropriate counseling specialty credential in dance/movement therapy.
The membership of the ADTA includes approximately 1000 dance/movement therapists in 48 states and in 23 foreign countries.
The ADTA publishes the American Journal of Dance Therapy, a quarterly newsletter, monographs, and bibliographies.
The ADTA maintains a website at www.adta.org, and offers a listserv via the Internet.
