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    Associate professorship Arts & Health

    The associate professorship Arts & Health aims at contributing to the professional field of the arts therapies and highlighting the relevance of the performing arts for positive health and mental wellbeing. The professorship is connected to the Codarts Master of Arts Therapies (MAT), with a specialization in Dance Movement Therapy and Music Therapy. 

    The research domain of the associate professorship Arts & Health is related to the impact and meaningfulness of the performing arts dance and music for personal life and society. Our special focus is on the human experience of aesthetic practices in relation to health and wellbeing.  

    Research topics of the associate professorship Arts & Health cover the applicability of arts-based and arts-informed interventions in community settings, societal networks and (mental) health settings. 

    Activities of the associate professorship are related to

    • Building a body of knowledge from and for the arts therapies.
    • Co-creating a body of knowledge with practitioners in the arts therapies.
    • Building evidence for arts therapies interventions.
    • Building educational programmes for the arts for wellbeing and mental health. 

    The associate professorship Arts & Health works in close collaboration with the department of Arts Therapies at Codarts and seeks to connect to dance therapy and music therapy experts in the mental health field. Outcomes of these projects are accessible for Codarts students and faculty as well as the professional field. Where possible we seek to deliver open access educational and research resources.

    Interested in one of our projects?

    Please contact us

    Current research projects

    • Intervention mapping/intervention evaluation

      Topics in this research line are medical applications, dementia, socio-cultural synchronisation.  

      This research lines collects first-hand knowledge from arts therapies practitioners. Systematic documentation of applied interventions are used to build intervention descriptions that meet the standards for replication of therapeutical application, research studies and education.

       

    • DMT in Personality disorders

      The focus of this research is on documenting and systematising DMT interventions for people living with personality disorders. The project will pilot one specific DMT intervention and look into effects as described by participants.

       

    • DMT/MT in medical settings

      This research line aims at building a conceptual model for arts-related intervention in the context of medical settings, systematically collect, develop and evaluate dance therapy interventions in the medical context.

       

    • DMT/MT observational studies

      This research line is collecting observational outcome of dance and music therapy interventions. Therapists have to navigate the participants’ behaviours to decide on suitable methods and interventions. The same behavioural markers on changes in therapy may support outcome evaluation and effectiveness studies.  

       

    • DOPODO II

      Dance on - pass on - dream on (DOPODO) – European funded project across Codarts departments. For the MAT the focus is on the role of aesthetics in dance therapy with the elderly living with dementia. 

       

    • Perceived effects of arts therapies

      This project is a collaboration of Codarts associate professorship Arts & Health with the HAN professorship ‘ Vaktherapie bij persoonlijkheidsstoornissen’  and the KenVaK professorship. This study aims to investigate the effects of arts therapies interventions as perceived by participants.

       

    • Dance Audience Synchronisation [DAS]

      This project is a collaboration of Codarts associate professorship Arts & Health with two independent researchers. The project aims to investigate how we can measure the impact of watching dance performances for individuals and groups. Funded by Codarts Research Fund. 

       

    • DMT/MT in forensic settings

      This project is a collaboration of the Codarts associate professorship Arts & Health with the HAN professorship ‘ Vaktherapie bij persoonlijkheidsstoornissen’, professorship ‘ Psychomotor therapy’ at Windesheim and the KenVaK professorship. The project will collect and document working factors of arts therapies in the forensic setting. Funded by Kwaliteit Forensische Zorg (KFZ).

       

    Past research projects

    • Samen gezond door dansen en bewegen

      DMT as positive health intervention for multicultural communities.  

       

    • Dans-/bewegingstherapie voor ouderen in een zorgcentrum

      DMT as positive health intervention in care homes for the elderly living with dementia.

       

    • Dans-/bewegingstherapie voor mensen met chronische pijnklachten

      DMT as health supporting community intervention for people living with MUS.

       

    • Aliens or Alliance

      Explorative study with Arts Therapies experts into an arts informed intervention model for the Arts Therapies.

       

    • BHAI - Building health from arts-based interventions

      Development of an intervention template for the description of arts therapies micro interventions. Testing the template with arts therapy experts.

       

    • Intervention mapping for dance/music therapists – developing an observation template

      Development of an observation template for educational and research applications in the arts therapies.

       

    • DOPODO I

      Dance On – Pass On – Dream On. Dance classes, improvisation and performance for people living with dementia.

       

    Education

    The professorship Arts & Health contributes to the research curriculum of the Master of Arts Therapies. Students are prepared to become mental health professionals with an orientation towards state-of-the-art research in dance movement therapy and music therapy, evidence-based therapeutic practices, related arts-informed procedures, and theoretical frameworks. Where suitable, research projects of the professorship arts and health are open for student participation. 

     

    Team

    Dr. Rosemarie Samaritter  

    Associate lector  
    E: rasamaritter@codarts.nl 
    T: +31(0)619322129  

    Simone Kleinlooh  

    PhD kandidaat  
    E: skleinlooh@codarts.nl 
    T: +31 (0)651511746 

    Contact

    E: researchmat@codarts.nl  

    T: +31 (0)10 217 1082
     

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