Friday, May 13, 2011

Defense Passed!

Sorry for the late post!

Irit Halperin passed her defense in April. The title of her dissertation was
Creating a Dialogue Between Jewish Israeli and 
Palestinian Israeli Women through Expressive Therapies


 
 While I don't have a picture to post of her now I will next week when she and the other 5 doctoral students who are graduating will be here for the public presentations and the Lesley University Hooding Ceremonies.  Here is the schedule. It all takes place at Alumni Hall on the Doble Campus. 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA


Thursday, May 19, 2011

10:00 - Steven Durost
Old is an Attitude – Age is a Concept:  A Qualitative Study on Aging and Ageism with Guidelines for Expressive Therapies Literature
Dissertation Committee Chair:  Robyn Cruz

11:00 - Hyejin Yoo
Supervisor’s Experience of Empathetic Understanding
When Using Art-making in Art Therapy Supervision
Dissertation Committee Chair:  Robyn Cruz

12:00 - Nicole D. Hahna
Conversations from the Classroom:
Reflections on Feminist Music Therapy Pedagogy in Teaching Music Therapy
Dissertation Committee Chair:  Robyn Cruz


Friday, May 20, 2011

10:00 - Tal Reemarchook
Out of the Themanos:
A Model of Combined Expressive Art and Outreach Therapy
Dissertation Committee Chair:  Robyn Cruz
11:00 - Hod Orkibi
Creative Arts Therapies Students’ Professional Development:
Mixed Methods Longitudinal Research
Dissertation Committee Chair:  Robyn Cruz
12:00 - Irit Halperin
Creating a Dialogue Between Jewish and Palestinian Israeli Women
Through Expressive Therapies
Dissertation Committee Chair:  Michele Forinash

The Hooding Ceremonies began Thursday at 2 pm in Alumni Hall for the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences and continue at 4 pm in Marran Theatre for the University wide Ceremony. Please join us.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Defense Passed!

The Spring Break at Lesley was busy for the doctoral program. 
Steven Durost was the third candidate to pass his doctoral defense! 
His chair was Dr. Robyn Cruz and his title was 
"Old is an Attitude - Age is a Concept: 
A Qualitative Study on Aging and Ageism with Guidelines for Expressive Therapies Literature."

Congratulations Steven!
Associate Dean Sandra Walker, Steven Durost, PhD Director Michele Forinash

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

And Another Defense Passed!

Congratulations to Hod Orkibi who successfully defended his 
dissertation this morning
(evening his time as he lives and defended from Israel).


Dr. Robyn Cruz and Hod Orkibi
Hod Orkibi
The title of Hod's dissertation is 
"Creative Arts Therapies Students' Professional Development: 
Mixed Methods Longitudinal Research"

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Defense Passed!

Nicole D. Hahna passed her defense today! The title of her dissertation is Conversations from the Classroom: Reflections on Feminist Music Therapy Pedagogy in Teaching Music Therapy.

Dr. Marcow Speiser, Nicole Hahna and Dr. Michele Forinash



















And today is National Feminist Coming Out Day! How appropriate!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Doctoral Student Update

Congratulations to our students who have been hard at work!

Sangeeta Swamy has an article in the Fall/Winter issue of Music Therapy Perspectives. 
It is titled "No, She Doesn't Know Anything About Cultural Differences!: 
Culturally Centered Music Therapy Supervision.


Krystal Demaine presented a poster at "Crossing the Corpus Collosum II: Neuroscience, Healing and Music" which was held at Harvard University in February. The poster documents the research for her pilot study.
Krystal and Lesley faculty Dr. Michaela Kirby

Krystal Demaine


Craig Haen has a new book coming out!

The book is titled Engaging Boys in Treatment: Creative Approaches to the Therapy Process. Lesley faculty John Bergman and Lesley Master's alum Jason Cruz both have chapters in Craig's book. You can find it on Amazon.com. 

Rachel Brandoff gave a lecture as part of the invited guest lecture series in the graduate art therapy program at New York University. She spoke about death education in art therapy training.  Rachel is once again involved in the 2011 Expressive Therapies Summit in NYC. Expressive Therapies Summit

Congrats to all!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Denise Malis - Art Show

Doctoral student Denise Malis has a show hanging at the 
Marran Gallery at Lesley
 January 26 - March 3, 2011. 



The title of the show is The Fabric of Narrative

Just for Fun!

Thought you might enjoy seeing doc student Daniel Hyams cat Tabitha help with manual qualitative data analysis!