Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016

• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.36 - Movement and mind-body therapies

51.3601 - Movement therapy

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to use functional and expressive integration strategies to help promote somatic awareness and optimal psychophysical functioning. These programs include courses in skilled touch techniques, kinesthetic awareness processes, movement observation, patterning, client assessment and guidance, verbal and non-verbal communication, practice management, professional standards and ethics, and specific therapeutic and educational modalities (Alexander Technique, Aston Patterning, Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais Method(copyright), Laban Movement Analysis, Trager Approach, and others).

• Illustrative example(s)

  • movement therapy

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • dance therapy(51.2302)
  • kinesiology(31.0505)
  • physiotherapy(51.2308)