Today Holland has many movement educators and psychomotor therapists in public employ within the field of health- and mental health care. These professionels work with both children and adults in many varied forms as Holland has a rich practical and theoretical tradition. Even a post-graduate course of two years of duration is offered to Movement Educators and Psychomotor Therapists. Much research is undertaken by the Dutch collegues. Movement educators and psychomotor therapists aim at developing human potential and promoting socio-cultural exchange.
Movement is more than mere muscle action.
It is a planned intervention helping a person to develop her potential of movement and communication. It is carried out within a tonic-emotional relation between movement educator and participant and stabilizes or builds personal identity. Movement educators and psychomotor therapists also undertake therapeutical treatment of persons with psychological or socio-psychological needs. The treatment is based on different body interventions or movement activities that promote physio-psychological functioning and build or stabilize personal identity and give insight into the roots of psychological complexes or problems. Besides working in psychiatric institutions and working with people with mental handicaps the dutch pscyhomotricians have for some time been expanding into the field of rehabilitation.