American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)

Overview:

Profession(s): Dance/Movement Therapy
Scope: National - United States
Formed: 1966
Members: 1,038
Address: 2000 Century Plaza, Suite 108, 10632 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, MD 21044-3263, USA
Phone: 410-997-4040
Fax: 410-997-4048
Email: info@adta.org
Website: www.adta.org

Description:

Since its founding in 1966, the American Dance Therapy Association has worked to maintain the highest standards of professional education and competence in the field. ADTA maintains a registry of dance/movement therapists who have met stringent standards of education and experience, sets and monitors standards for the masters level programs that prepare people to become dance/movement therapists, publishes the American Journal of Dance Therapy, holds a professional conference every year, and publishes timely monographs for its members and for allied professionals.

Mission/Aims:

For over fifty years, Dance/Movement Therapists have been pioneers in the in-depth understanding of how the body and mind interact in health and in illness, be it an illness of the mind which is embodied or an illness of the body that impacts on mental functioning and spirit. Whether the issue is the will to live, a search for meaning or motility, or the ability to feel love for life, for dance/movement therapists healing has always meant mobilizing resources from that place within where body and mind are one.

Principal Activities:

ADTA works to maintain high levels of professionalism and professional education for dance/movement therapists. Principal activities are approval of graduate programs, credentialing new professionals, annual conference, advocacy, and communications.

Member Benefits:

American Journal of Dance Therapy, the official journal of the ADTA; quarterly ADTA Newsletter, substantial discounts on ADTA publications and Conference fees; membership directory; ADTA literature; mailings of professional interest.

Training/Licensing/Certification:

Complete listing of approved and other programs available on our website.

Verification Criteria:

The Association has always distinguished between dance/movement therapists prepared to work in professional settings within a team under supervision, and those prepared for the responsibilities of working independently in private practice, or providing supervision.

DTR: DANCE THERAPIST REGISTERED Therapists with this title have a Masters Degree and are fully qualified to work in a professional treatment system.

ADTR: ACADEMY OF DANCE THERAPISTS REGISTERED Therapists with this title have met additional requirements and are fully qualified to teach, provide supervision, and engage in private practice.