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| Location: | Derby / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Derby
Why choose this course?
* This course is accredited by the Association of Dance and Movement Therapists.
* You'll develop the skills you need to support the health and well-being of vulnerable people, so it's a really rewarding course to choose.
* It offers dance movement therapy training and a licence to practice, as well as giving you an academic qualification at masters level.
* We will support you during your placement to make sure that you're ready for your career in dance therapy when you graduate.
About the course
This course is accredited by the Association of Dance Movement Therapists, so you can be confident that you'll be learning the most up to date thinking on dance movement psychotherapy.
During the course you'll build up your experience of clinical dance movement therapy, and use your creative skills to explore self expression.
It's important to understand the history of dance movement psychotherapy from the early pioneers through to the current thinking. You'll cover concepts such as the theory and practice of the art form and the importance of improvisation and creativity. You'll also use and reflect on psychotherapeutic theory, while considering the implications for placement and practice. Because anatomy and physiology are essential to your understanding of movement and its significance for therapy, you'll also explore this during the course.
We've excellent facilities including our new dance studio, and have close links with déda, the Derby dance centre.
You'll be allocated a personal tutor who will be responsible for monitoring your overall progress. As well as the taught components, you'll need to take part in personal therapy throughout the course, which can be individual or group therapy, because this is a requirement for professional registration as a dance movement psychotherapist.
You'll need to undertake health screening at the start of the course to monitor your fitness to practice.
Contents
The programme gives you solid experience of clinical dance movement therapy practice, supervision and work in education, as well as further closed group work. The main emphasis is on your work in a clinical environment and using creative skills to explore self-expression. You will be allocated a personal tutor who'll be responsible for monitoring your overall progress. As well as taught components, you'll be required to engage in personal therapy as this is a requirement for professional registration. This is a private arrangement and the cost is not included in the fees. Individual or group therapy is acceptable.
How you're assessed
Students will receive clear guidelines upon the nature of assessment for each module at its commencement. However, generally modules are assessed through the submission of written work aimed at demonstrating that the student has met the learning outcomes pertinent to the module. The clinical placements are assessed though the submission of reports completed by the Clinical Placement Supervisor which are then discussed with the student concerned and the University Supervisor.
Anything else?
You'll need to pay for the cost of personal therapy while studying this course and the cost of travelling to and from your placement.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
You'll need a relevant undergraduate degree and at least two years experience of dance and movement.
If you're applying for an postgraduate course, you will need at least:
* IELTS: 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in all areas).
* TOEFL: 550 (paper based), 213 (computer based), or 80 (internet based)
* Pearson Test of Academic English: 51
* Cambridge Advanced Certificate: Pass
* London Tests of English: we accept level 5 for postgraduate courses
* International GCE O Level English Language: Grade C
* International GCSE English or English as a Second Language: Grade C.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 550 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 213 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 80 |
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