Applying traumatic body memory theory to a childhood context using a dance/movement therapy perspective

This work explores the literature on body memory and memory processing theory specific to traumatic experiences. It integrates ideas that are heavily rooted in development and attachment theories and applies them to models of memory encoding on a body level. By adding a lens that layers child development and attachment onto existing theories of body memory, this work provides a foundation from which traumatic body memory can be situated as a new theory in the childhood context. While this theory is not novel, it does reframe the literature to address this phenomenon in children. This work was highly informed by a dance/movement therapy perspective.M.A., Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling -- Drexel University, 201