{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">The Role of Dance in Creating Stories with Hospitalized Adolescents</span></p> <p>Dance therapy, music therapy and story making were used in sessions with hospitalized adolescents (aged 10-16 years). A flexible, responsive setting was created in which “acting out” behavior was structured through the combining of various individual expressions of feeling to create stories in which a group theme emerged (i.e., separation). Dance played a role in the development of the symbolic repertoire, allowing the experiencing and sharing of feelings and events through bodily action. Sharing and working through feelings and problems symbolically in dance and story enable the patients to then deal with them verbally in the community meeting following the session.</p>"}