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THE USE OF NON‐VERBAL AND BODY MOVEMENT TECHNIQUES IN WORKING WITH FAMILIES WITH INFANTS
Author(s) -
Murphy James M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.1979.tb01282.x
Subject(s) - dysfunctional family , psychology , dance , feeling , movement (music) , developmental psychology , experiential learning , negotiation , family therapy , nonverbal communication , focus (optics) , psychotherapist , social psychology , sociology , pedagogy , aesthetics , art , philosophy , social science , literature , physics , optics
This article presents an experiential‐educational approach to families with infants (under one year of age). This approach integrates dance and movement therapy with family therapy theories and techniques. Non‐verbal techniques are the only possible methods of working directly with infants, who are present with their parents in these workshops. The focus is on harmonious and conflictual interactions and functional and dysfunctional communications, negotiations and exchanges of feelings in the child‐parent dyads and family triads.