Shuper Engelhard Einat
Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2020 Apr 17;11:542. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00542. eCollection 2020.
Shared leisure activities fulfill a central role in strengthening the relationship with adult grandchildren and provide a vehicle for transmission of values. Thus, it is likely that joint activity alongside support and focused guidance in communication between adult grandchildren and grandparents will help strengthen their relationship. Based on theory and research on dance/movement therapy in old age, and on development processes in the family, the aim of the present study is to discover the significance of free-form dance jointly engaged in by adult grandchildren with their grandparents, for each of the generations. Using action research, 16 dance-movement therapists and their grandmothers participated in three dance meetings in their grandmothers' homes. Based on filmed videos of the sessions, personal diaries, and semi-structured interviews, it was found that among the granddaughters, the meeting aroused concerns about their lack of skill to create a meaningful meeting and to protect their grandmothers throughout the meeting. It was also found that regular free-form dance meetings in which the granddaughter mirrored her grandmother's movements while suggesting expansions to the movements, encouraging eye contact, touch, and playfulness, and empowering her ability, while also granting legitimacy to rest, created a change in the grandmother's state of mind: positive memories and feelings appeared, as did uplifted spirits. For the granddaughters, the meeting altered their perspective on old age and provided a space for processes of parting. The implications of identifying assistive components of joint dancing for creating an intervention model for adult grandchildren's support of the elderly in the community are extensively discussed.
共享休闲活动在加强与成年孙辈的关系中发挥着核心作用，并为价值观的传递提供了一种途径。因此，成年孙辈与祖父母之间的联合活动以及在沟通方面的支持和针对性指导，可能有助于加强他们之间的关系。基于对老年舞蹈/动作治疗的理论和研究以及家庭中的发展过程，本研究的目的是探讨成年孙辈与其祖父母共同参与的自由形式舞蹈对每一代人的意义。采用行动研究法，16名舞蹈动作治疗师及其祖母在祖母家中参加了三次舞蹈聚会。根据聚会的录像、个人日记和半结构化访谈发现，在孙女们当中，这次聚会引发了她们对自己缺乏创造有意义聚会以及在整个聚会过程中保护祖母的能力的担忧。研究还发现，定期举行的自由形式舞蹈聚会中，孙女模仿祖母的动作，同时对动作进行拓展，鼓励眼神交流、触摸和嬉戏，并增强她的能力，同时也认可休息的合理性，这改变了祖母的心境：积极的回忆和感受出现了，情绪也高涨起来。对孙女们来说，这次聚会改变了她们对老年的看法，并为分离过程提供了一个空间。文中广泛讨论了确定联合舞蹈的辅助要素对创建成年孙辈在社区中支持老年人的干预模式的意义。
