Drexel University Ph.D. in Creative Arts Therapies

The latest issue of the the American Journal of Dance Therapy features two articles by Jacelyn Biondo, former postdoc, and Karolina Bryl, current postdoc. Congratulations! https://link.springer.com/arti/10.1007%2Fs10465-020-09341-8

We are excited to share that Karolina Bryl, postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Bradt's lab, has been awarded the 2021 Cotswold Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research 'COVID-19, social isolation, and schizophrenia: A mixed methods feasibility study on the effects of telehealth dance/movement therapy to promote activation in chronic schizophrenia'. Congratulations, Karolina!

Congrats Asli on being the featured member on Art Therapy Today! https://arttherapy.org/featured-member-asli-arslanbek/

Our PhD program has been busy with dissertation proposal defenses! Today, Carrie Cottone successfully defended her proposal "Investigating Clinical Practices of Medical Art Therapists Working with Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease". Congratulations, Carrie! A heartfelt thank you to her committee for their input and guidance: Dr. Joke Bradt (Drexel) (Chair), Dr. Girija Kaimal (Drexel), Dr. Stephanie Krauthamer Ewing (Drexel), Dr. Kim Smith-Whitley (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), and Dr. Esther Dr. Dreyfus-Kattan (UCLA).

Congratulations, Nalini Prakash, on passing the defense of your proposal "Examining the Impact of Dance/Movement Therapy on Empathy and School Violence in Ethnic Bullying: A Convergent Mixed Methods Design". Thank you to Nalini's committee for their support and guidance: Dr. Sherry Goodill (Chair), Dr. Minjung Shim (Drexel), Dr. Arun Ramakrishnan (Drexel), Dr. Suruchi Sood (Drexel), and Dr. Nancy Beardall (Lesley University).

Congrats Monica Gaydos on successfully completing your candidacy! We celebrate your hard work and wish you a successful doctoral journey!

Congratulations Asli!!! Well done on your candidacy exam. We look forward to supporting you and wish you continued success in your Phd journey.

Congrats Bani on successfully completing your candidacy! We celebrate your hard work and scholarship and wish you continued success in the rest of your doctoral journey!

The PhD in Creative Arts Therapies program at Drexel University has two upcoming Virtual Visit Days, Tuesday, November 17, 2020 from 4pm - 5pm ET and November 18, 2020 from 12pm -1pm ET. Please contact our Admissions department at [email protected] if you have any questions. Advanced registration is required. To register, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dURw26Q

Tune in on Tuesday October 13 at 5:00 to hear Dr. Joke Bradt in a livestream episode of the #musicmindlive series with Renee Fleming: Music and Mind LIVE #18: Un-Loneliness Music, Pain, and Mental Health .

Remembering pioneering art therapist, Dr. Myra Levick who founded the program at Drexel and served as the first President of the American Art Therapy Association: https://www.facebook.com/515699605138722/posts/4444875798887730/?extid=wbqEAdaMASrgqLAy&d=n

Congratulations to Brigette, PhD Candidate, and Joe Schneible with their wedding! We wish you a lifetime of happiness! Brigette, your ability to keep smiling and putting things in perspective as you planned a wedding during the pandemic was truly inspiring! We will miss the wedding planning updates with COVID twist in our research lab.

Check out this exciting call for chapter proposals by two alums from our program, Dr. Noah Potvin and Dr. Kate Myers-Coffman! We (Noah Potvin and Kate Myers-Coffman) invite music therapy clinicians, interns, and students to submit a chapter proposal for an edited book entitled Case Studies for Music Therapy Clinicians: Portraits of Everyday Practice (Routledge). The focus of this book is on everyday practice in music therapy. We intend this text to be a guide for students ...becoming acquainted with clinical practice as they transition into clinical practicums and internships as well as for entry-level clinicians adjusting to full-time caseloads as new professionals. We are looking to avoid exceptional, once-in-a-career, and/or miracle cases that, while aspirational, may provide students and new professionals with unrealistic expectations of everyday practice. Instead, we are focusing on the nuances of everyday practice, the challenges or scenarios that may regularly come up yet are not as focused on within extraordinary clinical case examples. In an effort to sustainably support music therapy clinicians and promote their practice, royalties from this text will be donated towards music therapy awards and/or scholarships that support clinician research and professional development. Please click on this link to access the Call for Chapters document for more information about the book and the submission process: https://drive.google.com//1UHrXfILj8inFfyHB8S_YK4gpW/view If you are interested in submitting a chapter abstract, would like more information about the project, or have general questions or comments, please contact us here: Noah Potvin ([email protected]) Kate Myers-Coffman ([email protected]) See more

Congrats Katrina Carroll-Haskins on the successful defense of your dissertation proposal entitled, " A theory of arts-based supervision for post graduate art therapists." Our gratitude to esteemed committee members: Drs., Potash, Miller, Carlton, Palisano and Kaimal (chair). Congratulations and wishing you every success also on your new full time faculty position at Holy Family University's graduate art therapy concentration!

Congratulations to Ming Yuan Low, PhD candidate, and his co-authors for their publication "Rojak: An Ethnographic Exploration of Pluralism and Music Therapy in Post-British-Colonial Malaysia"! https://academic.oup.com///doi/10.1093/mtp/miaa014/5880897

Congratulations Marygrace Berberian on the successul defense of your dissertation proposal entitled, "School-based art therapy models: Identifying facilitators and barriers in implementation." Wishing you all the very best in the next phase of data collection and analysis. Our heartfelt thanks also to the committee guiding the dissertation: Drs, Kaimal, Acosta, Betts, Dougherty and Goodill.

Many creative arts therapists may have ambivalent feelings about using treatment manuals in their work. Check out this article about implementing treatment manuals in randomized controlled trials authored by Drexel University music therapists, faculty, and postdoc. Alli Millstein, music therapist, talks about her anxieties and ambivalent feelings about using a treatment manual when she was first hired as research clinician for Dr. Joke Bradt's NIH-funded study. The article also offers the perspectives of other members of the research team and Alli's music therapy supervisor. https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/08098131.2020.1790632

Congratulations to Brigette Sutton for passing the defense of her dissertation proposal entitled "The Role of Music Therapy in Older Adults’ Transition to Nursing Homes". Thank you to her committee members for their excellent guidance and feedback: Dr. Orii McDermott, The Univerity of Nottingham, Dr. Laura Beer, Maryville University, Dr. Kristine Mulhorn, Drexel University, Dr. Minjung Shim, Drexel University and Dr. Joke Bradt (Committee Chair), Drexel University.

The PhD in Creative Arts Therapies program at Drexel University has an upcoming Virtual Visit Day, Friday, July 10, 2020 from 12pm-1pm. Please contact our Admissions department at [email protected] if you have any questions. Advanced registration is required. To register, please visit: https://forms.gle/TKgSGPwpD1C8fTke8

We are delighted to announce that Nalini Prakash, PhD candidate, received grant funding from the Trustees of the Marian Chace Foundation for her dissertation research Examining the Impact of Dance/Movement Therapy on Empathy and School Violence in Ethnic Bullying: A Convergent Mixed Methods Design. The Marian Chace Foundation supports the development of dance/movement therapy through research, education and scholarship. Congratulations, Nalini!

Congratulations to Drs. Shim Minjung, Burke Johnson, Joke Bradt, and Susan Gasson for publishing a new academic journal article in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. The article A Mixed MethodsGrounded Theory Design for Producing More Refined Theoretical Models is now published and the e-copy is available at https://journals.sagepub.com/epri/ZNU9TABU5GEXPIE625KF/full