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Dr. Goodill is the director of the Hahnemann Creative Arts in Therapy Program at Drexel University and she also serves as the Vice President of the American Dance Therapy Association. She holds a Master’s of Creative Arts in Therapy with a specialization in dance/movement therapy from Hahnemann Medical College, and a Ph.D. in Medical Psychology with a concentration in Mind/Body Studies from The Union Institute and University. Sherry has been working as a dance/movement therapist and educator since 1980. Her 2005 book, An Introduction to Medical Dance/Movement Therapy has supported the application of dance/movement therapy for people living with medical conditions. Dr. Goodill serves on the editorial panels for the scholarly journals, the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health., and The Arts in Psychotherapy: An international journal. In addition to her academic and administrative work, she continues to dance, and to contribute dance-based services in the community and the region.
Her many professional and academic interests include topics in psychosocial assessment through movement, non-verbal communication research, the application of dance/movement therapy and the creative arts therapies to address the psychosocial needs of medical patients and their families, the mind/body dynamics and mind/body interventions in Complementary and Alternative Therapy contexts, the role of the arts in healthcare, and mixed methodology research.
Selected publications:
Goodill, S. (2005) Research Letter: Dance/Movement Therapy to Enhance Mood and Adherence for Adults with Cystic Fibrosis. Journal of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. Vol. 11, no.1.
Goodill, S. (2005) An Introduction to Medical Dance/Movement Therapy: Health Care in Motion. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Goodill, S. (2006) “Dance/Movement Therapy for Adults with Chronic Medical Illness” in Advances in Dance/Movement Therapy: Theoretical perspectives and empirical findings, Eds. S. Koch & I. Brauninger. Berlin: Logos Verlag Berlin.
Erwin-Grabner, T., Goodill, S., Schelly-Hill, E., and VonNeida, K. The Effectiveness of Dance/Movement Therapy for the Reduction of Test Anxiety. American Journal of Dance Therapy, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 19-34, 1999.
Goodill, S. and Morningstar, D. "The Role of Dance/Movement Therapy with Medically Involved Children. International Journal of Arts Medicine, vol. II, no. 2, 1994.
Goodill, S. Dance Movement Therapy with Abused Children, The Arts in Psychotherapy, vol. 14, no. 1, 1987.
Koch, S., Cruz, R.F., and Goodill, S.W. The Kestenberg Movement Profile: Performance of Novice Raters. American Journal of Dance Therapy, vol. 23. , no. 2. pp. 77-88, 2001.
Dayanim, S., Goodill, S. and Lewis, C. (2006) The moving story effort assessment as a means for the movement assessment of latency aged children. American Journal of Dance Therapy, vol. 28., no. 1.
Goodill, S. and Cruz, R.F. (2004). Single Subject Designs for Dance/Movement Therapy Research. In Berrol, C.F. and Cruz, R.F., eds. Research in Dance/movement Therapy. Charles C. Thomas, Inc. This is the first book specifically on DMT research in the field.
Goodill, S. and Dulicai, D. (in press) “Dance/Movement Therapy: A Whole Person Approach” Preager Press multivolume series on Integrative Medicine, Vol. II on the Arts in Healthcare. Series editor, I. Serlin, Ph.D.
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