Embodied wordings of change:How do dance movement therapists describe their interventions?

The politics of health care urge arts therapists to deliver evidence for the effectiveness of their interventions. XXX professional association has started to focus on the arts therapists’ specific contribution to clinical guidelines and effectiveness research. On one hand, the question is how to describe and implement highly complex interventions, such as DMT within mental health care organisations. On the other hand, the question is how to match the criteria of evidence required from (psycho)therapies, while preserving the nature of creative and dance-informed processes that are at the core of DMT. In search for the DMT practitioners’ implicit and explicit knowledge, we present a thematic literature review and a pilot study of the DMT working elements. The findings are structured into a format that might provide enough detail to describe DMT interventions in the context of institutional guidelines, DMT training programmes and replication of DMT clinical practice and research