Conference paper
“DANCE AND GO ON”: A PROJECT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION ON THE ROAD
Romina Tavormina
; Social cooperative “Il Faro” of Ercolano, Naples, Italy
Maurilio Giuseppe Maria Tavormina
; Mental Health Department of Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy
Eugenio Nemoianni
; Mental Health Department of Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy
Abstract
The project "Dance and go on" was created with the intention of bringing out of the Day Centre of the Department of Mental
Health of Torre del Greco, the dance group "Dance That you go" active since 2009. Dancing Bachata becomes a rehabilitation tool
to express emotions through the body and to open to the outside, on the territory (local society), overcoming the fear of being judged
by others, the prejudice and the social stigma about mental illness. The rehabilitation activities of the dancing group allowed
patients to improve their care of self, self-esteem, confidence in their capacities and an increase in their social relations. The
strength and cohesion of the rehabilitation group has given to the patients the opportunity to believe in their own abilities, to accept
themselves with their difficulties and to improve the relationship with their body in relation with each other.
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264468
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Publication date:
8.9.2015.
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