ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the implications for integrating culturally responsive and trauma-informed practices into dance/movement therapy education, practice, and research. Trauma-informed care and trauma-specific interventions provide frameworks for the prioritization of safe, inclusive, and anti-oppressive methods. This chapter identifies the linkages between these approaches and mandates outlined in the American Dance Therapy Association's ethical code as well as their education and clinical training standards, leading to best practices in addressing trauma. Recommendations for revisions of the educational standards highlight the need to integrate focuses on social justice, address unconscious bias through an understanding of epistemology and ontology, and incorporate more culturally integrative research and approaches.
