Fall at 5 Phillips

Out PhD students are on campus only in July and I thought they might like to see what the yard looks like in November!

Update on Doctoral Students and Alumni

Doctoral Students

Lauren Parmelee Murphy, organized the ArtReach strand for Art Therapists and Art Educators who present therapeutc strategies at the Art Educators of New Jersey annual conference. The conference titled Art Sparks Genius included a variety of workshops. Murphy presented on facilitating client self understanding utilizing mandalas as models for organizational structure. 

 

Rachel Brandoff and Becky Fleetwood have been organizing the Expressive Therapies Summit in NYC. They, and other students are presenting as well! Their link is 

http://www.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?e=caea71ec-7ccb-44a6-ac31-8f83fada5489

I'm sure we will have pictures from this event to share soon!

 
Jill Wargolet had an article published in the AATA newsletter on "The Expressive Arts Studio: One Sketch of Art Therapy in a Medical Setting."

Olena Darewych presented at the 2010 Women's Mental Health Conference in Toronto, Canada on "The Use of the Creative Arts in Building Bridges with At Risk Orphans in the Ukraine."

Several students were at the recent AATA conference - I'm sure we will be posting their presentations soon. 

Alumni

Emily Marsick has two publications coming out.
Marsick, E. (in press). Film selection in a cinematherapy intervention with preadolescents experiencing parental divorce. Journal for Creativity in Mental Health.

Marsick, E. (2010). Cinematherapy with preadolescents experiencing parental divorce: A collective case study. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 37(4) 311-318. doi:10.1016/j.aip.2010.05.006

Tammy Bar-On is the Coordiantor of Art Therapy at Haifa University in Israel.

Yousef Al-Ajarma has a half time faculty appointment at Lesley University and a part time faculty appointment at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology

 

July 2010. End of Residency

Three weeks of hard work!

PhD Students at the end of residency

A great end to a great residency