Intensive Tango Dance Program for People With Self-Referred Affective Symptoms

Music & Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-22

  Pinniger, Rosa ^a   Thorsteinsson, Einar B ^a   Brown, Rhonda F ^b   McKinley, Patricia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anxiety; dance; depression; insomnia; mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990361368     PISSN: 19438621     EISSN: 1943863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1943862112470143     Document Type: Article

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