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Dance and movement therapy holds promise for treating anxiety and depression, as well as deeper psychological wounds

  • Written by Lana Ruvolo Grasser, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Fellow, Wayne State University
imageDance and movement therapy not only holds promise for treatment of trauma, anxiety and depression but can also contribute lifelong coping skills.kate_sept2004/E+ via Getty Images

A few years ago, framed by the skyline of Detroit, a group of about 15 children resettled as refugees from the Middle East and Africa leapt and twirled around, waving...

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