Background: People with a personality disorder (PD) suffer from enduring inflexible patterns in cognitions and emotions, leading to significant subjective distress, affecting both self and interpersonal functioning. In clinical practice, Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) is provided to clients with a PD, and although research continuously confirms the value of DMT for many populations, to date, there is very limited information available on DMT and PD. For this study, a systematic literature review on DMT and PD was conducted to identify the content of the described DMT interventions and the main treatment themes to focus upon in DMT for PD. Methods: A systematic search was conducted across the following databases: EMBASE, MEDLINE, PubMed, WEB OF SCIENCE, PsycINFO/OVID, and SCOPUS following the PRISMA guidelines. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme for qualitative studies was used to rank the quality of the articles. The Oxford Center for Evidence-based Medicine standards were applied to determine the hierarchical level of best evidence. Quantitative content analysis was used to identify the intervention components: intended therapeutic goals, therapeutic activities leading to these goals, and suggested therapeutic effects following from these activities. A thematic synthesis approach was applied to analyze and formulate overarching themes. Results: Among 421 extracted articles, four expert opinions met the inclusion criteria. Six overarching themes were found for DMT interventions for PD: self-regulation, interpersonal relationships, integration of self, processing experiences, cognition, and expression and symbolization in movement/dance. No systematic descriptions of DMT interventions for PD were identified. A full series of intervention components could be synthesized for the themes of self-regulation, interpersonal relationships, and cognition. The use of body-oriented approaches and cognitive strategies was in favor of dance-informed approaches. Conclusions: Dance movement therapists working with PD clients focus in their interventions on body-related experiences, non-verbal interpersonal relationships, and to a lesser extent, cognitive functioning. A methodological line for all intervention components was synthesized for the themes of self-regulation, interpersonal relationships, and cognition, of importance for developing systematic intervention descriptions. Future research could focus on practitioners’ expertise in applying DMT interventions for PD to develop systematic intervention descriptions and explore the suitability of the identified themes for clinical application. Clients’ experiences could offer essential insights on how DMT interventions could address PD pathology and specific PD categories.
De maatschappij verandert razendsnel en vraagt een meer ondernemende en nieuwsgierige houding van studenten en professionals. Kennis en vaardigheden die hiervoor essentieel zijn noemen we binnen Fontys TEC: Technology, Entrepreneurship en Creativity. Wie over TEC-skills beschikt, begrijpt hoe technologie vraagstukken kan oplossen, durft te ondernemen en zoekt naar creatieve oplossingen en samenwerkingen. Onze studenten, afgestudeerden, docenten en onderzoekers leveren zo een proactieve bijdrage aan een duurzame en inclusieve samenleving. Jonge mensen opleiden tot TEC-professionals, dat zien we binnen Fontys als onze hoofdtaak. Deze vaardigheden worden zowel in het onderwijs als in het praktijkgerichte onderzoek aangeleerd en gestimuleerd. De komende jaren bepaalt het thema TEC for Society grotendeels de koers van het onderwijs binnen Fontys. Met vijf inhoudelijke onderzoeksthema’s zet Fontys in op de ontwikkeling naar een kennisintensieve netwerkorganisatie die verbonden is met vraagstukken in de samenleving en het bedrijfsleven. Deze thema’s zijn: • High Tech Systems and Materials • Health • Learning Society • Smart Society • Creative Economy Het thema Learning Society wil een bijdrage leveren aan het leven lang leren en het ontwikkelen van de wenbaarheid en weerbaarheid van de inwoners in onze regio. Binnen dit onderzoeksthema wordt door lectoren uit verschillende domeinen samengewerkt en onderzoek verricht. Dit literatuuronderzoek was een van de startactiviteiten binnen het thema Learning Society. We wilden vanuit verschillende disciplines een beeld krijgen van wat al bekend is over future skills, innovatieve leer- en werkomgevingen en de vragen die daarbij spelen. In deze rapportage delen we onze eerste inzichten.
Fatigued pilots are prone to experience cognitive disorders that degrade their performance and adherence to high safety standards. In light of the current challenging context in aviation, we report the early phase of our ongoing project on the re-evaluation of human factors research for flight crew. Our motivation stems from the need for aviation organisations to develop decision support systems for operational aviation settings, able to feed-in in the organisations’ fatigue risk management efforts. Key criteria to this end are the need for the least possible intrusiveness and the added information value for a safety system. Departing from the problems in compliance-focused fatigue risk management and the intrusive nature of clinical studies, we report a neuroscientific methodology able to yield markers that can be easily integrated in a decision support system at the operational level. Reporting the preliminary phase of our live project, we evaluate the tools suitable for the development of a system that tracks subtle pilot states, such as drowsiness and micro-sleep episodes.
