Master in Dance Movement Therapy UAB

Department of Clinical Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Dance Movement Therapy

(DMT)

Is defined as the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance within a process that promotes the psychophysical growth of the individual. It is based on the connection between movement and emotion and works with the body and its own language

movement and emotion

DMT WORKS WITH THE BODY AND ITS OWN LANGUAGE

DMT is a multidisciplinary approach based on studies of non-verbal communication, developmental psychology, neuroscience, group dynamics, as well as theories from different psychological orientations

Studying the Master’s programme

IN DMT

We offer a complete training in DMT with 100 ECTS that can be realized in three academic years

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Studying the Postgraduate Diploma

IN DMT

We offer a Postgraduate Diploma consisting in 30 ECTS that develops a broad understanding of DMT

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ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS

At applicants holding a Bachelor’s Degree and professionals of psychology, education and medicine and other graduates or professionals with experience in dance and/or expressive movement. All applicants need to attend an introductory course and an interview.
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MANDATORY

Abilities in dance and/or expressive movement. To undertake a personal psychotherapeutic process during the second and third year of the course (during the period of the clinical placement). The cost of this process is not included in the registration fee.

WE VALUE

Experience of having worked with groups/individuals in different contexts.

The capacity to be able to read English without many difficulties.

Previous experience of psychotherapy.

The Master’s Team

Our team, consisting of specialists from the UAB as well as from other international institutions, shares its experience through innovative and varied methodologies

DIRECTORS

Academic and institutional coordination

SECRETARY

Contact and logistical information for students

CENTRAL STAFF TEAM

Formed by teachers who lead experiential learning groups, supervisors who accompany and guide clinical practice, and tutors who guide students in the first two years. This team meets on a regular basis to evaluate and supervise students’ academic and personal development and growth

TEAM OF LECTURERS

Professionals from the field of DMT and the creative arts therapies, from psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry
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Pioneering University-based studies

in Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) on a national level.

STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN THE MASTER’S PROGRAMME BETWEEN 2003 AND 2017

More than 350 experiential shared sessions.

The 1st edition of the master’s (2003/05) was inaugurated in October 2003. On the 20th of October 2017 the 14th cohort of the master in DMT will begin.

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STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN THE POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA BETWEEN 2003 AND 2017

With the involvement of students from 30 different countries.
The 1st edition of the postgraduate diploma (2005/06) was inaugurated in October 2005. On the 20th of October 2017 the 12th edition of the postgraduate diploma in DMT will be opened.
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THE EXPERIENCE
What the Master’s has meant to our students

"Many doors that open even more doors"

ELENA KARAMPOULA

9th cohort of the Master’s

"A very important and potent tool"

LAURA PRATS

6th cohort of the Master’s

"A quite difficult process, but on the other hand a lot of learning"

LLUISA IBIZA

5th cohort of the Master’s

"Very therapeutic and different"

MAX KOPELEIN

9th cohort of the Postgraduate Diploma

"Working with the body, things are more real and one is more present"

IRENE BARÓ

9th cohort of the Master’s

"A change of focus, an opening of viewpoint, contact with the most intimate of me that I had not allowed myself to experience until today"

LAIA ESTREMEIRO

2nd cohort of the Master’s

"A crossroads, a door to the world I want to belong to, a meeting of people I cherish, a collective growth and expansion that resonate"

ANASTASIA DAMOULIANOU

6th cohort of the Master’s

This course has been designed in accordance with

the guidelines of the ADMTE (Asociación Española de Danza Movimiento Terapia) Since 2007 it forms part of ECARTE (European Consortium for the Arts in Education), the European Network for University training courses in Creative Arts Therapies.

SECRETARY
TUESDAY & THURSDAY:
15h00 - 17h00
Edifici Agora Plaça Cívica
Reception 1st floor
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)

master.dmt@uab.es

93 586 8028

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