Abstract
Pre-professional ballet dancers undergo intensive training and competition amid the typical developmental pressures of adolescence. For many young dancers, a dance injury may engender psychological duress. Drawing on established adolescent and dance medicine literature and the authors’ clinical experience, we address pre-existing psychological vulnerabilities, post-injury reactions, and negative social and environmental circumstances that can influence the dancer’s injury experience. Specific stressors, psychopathology, and problem behaviors found to accompany dance injury are presented. A short-term, empirically supported, and culturally sensitive treatment approach is demonstrated through clinical case examples. While working with this patient population has its challenges and limitations, psychological support over the course of a young dancer’s injury can foster the physical and emotional resiliency necessary for a long and fulfilling professional career.
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