{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Therapist Verbalization in the Dance Therapy Process: A Content Analysis.</span></p> <p>This study is a content analysis of a dance therapist's verbalization during a dance therapy session with depressed patients in a short term care psychiatric hospital. The purpose of the analysis was to study the therapists verbalization in order to determine whether or not her client centered philosophy was reflected in the types of standard she made. In a content analysis, statements are placed into subject matter categories then analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. Through content analysis, relationships between intent and content or between content and effect can be made. In this study each statement the therapist made was classified under one of eleven statement type categories: Giving directions, offering images, informing, making sounds, observation of self, reflecting back statements, simple acceptance and using names.</p> <p>The results showed that 61% of the therapists verbalization came under the categories of informing, asking questions and giving directions. This seemed to indicate a directive trend on the part of the therapist. A closer look at the intention and function of the statements revealed that the results might be a reflection of the relationship of verbalization to the dance therapy process and a response to the needs of the population studied. Evaluation by statement type did not give information about therapist philosophy. The purpose of the statement was more reflective of the therapist's indirective philosophy than the statement type. The results also showed that statements in various categories were used to make interventions with the same purpose.</p>"}