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The support parents provide to their children’s physical activity (PA), i.e. physical activity parenting (PAP), has been shown to be a consistent correlate of children’s PA. Although a wide range of factors are shown to associate with PAP, a comprehensive perspective on the correlates of PAP is still lacking. In the current study, child, family, and environmental correlates of PAP were investigated in families (n = 840) with young children (n = 993; 5.40 ± 1.14 years) and parents (n = 993; 35.8 ± 5.29 years). Parents’ self-reports of PAP (co-participation, (in)direct support, encouragement), child specific (sex, age, temperament, outdoor time, organized physical activity or sports, sedentary time, media time, PA enjoyment, motor skills compared to peers, PA and sport facility use), family specific (respondent’s sex, age, education, exercise frequency, family income, family status, number of children in the family, child’s birth order, and partner’s PAP and exercise frequency), and environment specific (residential density, access to sport and outdoor facilities, type of house, access to electronic devices) factors were collected. Children’s motor skills and anthropometrics were measured. After adjusting for family cluster effect, child, family, and environmental factors were entered into linear mixed effects model with PAP as response variable. Final model consisted of statistically significant factors, except parental education was forced into the model. Nine child- and family factors explained 15 % of parenting variance between the children and 52 % between the families. Partner’s PAP (B = .68, p < .001) had the strongest association, whereas the child’s temperament (B = .08, p < .001) and birth order (B = -.10, p < .001) had smaller but novel associations with the respondent’s PAP. Partner’s physical activity parenting practices and a range of child and family factors should be considered when promoting parental support on child’s PA.

The politics of health care urge arts therapists to deliver evidence for the effectiveness of their interventions. XXX professional association has started to focus on the arts therapists’ specific contribution to clinical guidelines and effectiveness research. On one hand, the question is how to describe and implement highly complex interventions, such as DMT within mental health care organisations. On the other hand, the question is how to match the criteria of evidence required from (psycho)therapies, while preserving the nature of creative and dance-informed processes that are at the core of DMT. In search for the DMT practitioners’ implicit and explicit knowledge, we present a thematic literature review and a pilot study of the DMT working elements. The findings are structured into a format that might provide enough detail to describe DMT interventions in the context of institutional guidelines, DMT training programmes and replication of DMT clinical practice and research.