ProgramCIP 51.3601

Movement Therapy and Movement Education

A program that prepares individuals to use functional and expressive integration strategies to help promote somatic awareness and optimal psychophysical functioning. Includes instruction in skilled touch techniques, kinesthetic awareness processes, movement observation, patterning, client assessment and guidance, verbal and nonverbal communication, practice management, professional standards and ethics, and specific therapeutic and educational modalities

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).