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Trace collectors: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2020-05)Everything around us has been touched, used, cracked, broken – evidence that reveals an object’s existence and experience. I create simple surfaces and forms that when carried on the body, slowly gather traces of the ... -
Personal therapy for a graduate student in the analytical music therapy model : a heuristic inquiry
(2020-05)This heuristic inquiry explores my experience as a graduate student undergoing personal music therapy in the Analytical Music Therapy model. After reviewing 27 recordings of my sessions, I used self-dialogue to select five ... -
Music therapy in the medical setting : a music therapy program proposal for the Mercy Medical Hospital
(2020-05)This music therapy program proposal has been designed for implementation at the Mercy Medical Hospital in Rockville Centre, NY. Music therapy is a unique healthcare profession that utilizes music to assist individuals from ... -
The experience of music therapists working with clients with schizophrenia
(2020-05)The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of music therapists who work with clients diagnosed with schizophrenia. The main focus of this study was the music therapists’ perceptions of ... -
A quantitative and qualitative approach to understanding and defining hate sex
(2020-05)Although a popular topic in the media, there is no research to date on hate sex. The purpose of this study was to attain a better understanding of hate sex and operationally define the construct utilizing both quantitative ... -
Proposal for neonatal intensive care unit music therapy program at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center
(2020-05)The following is a proposal for the implementation of a music therapy program in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Brookdale University Hospital. This proposal provides the rationale for instituting a NICU music ... -
Benedictine, Bridge Back, and beyond : a proposal for an integrated music therapy program involving graduated levels of substance misuse treatment
(2020-05)The following document is an in-depth proposal for expanding a part-time music therapy program in a medical setting focused on the needs and concerns of people who are struggling to recover from an addiction to drugs and/or ... -
An inquiry into sound healing and music therapy
(2020-05)Sound and music are powerful forces within the context of the subjective experience, the depths of which are underrepresented within traditional objectively focused research. This study delved into the internal experience ... -
Factors influencing music therapists to join, or not join, the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA)
(2020-05)The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) is the membership organization for music therapists that strives to develop and support the music therapy profession. Professional membership in the AMTA has been declining in ... -
Factors influencing career longevity of music therapists
(2020-05)This survey study examined the factors that experienced music therapists identified as important in maintaining their careers in music therapy. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into how these music therapists ... -
Made in the USA, When gnomes need to clean their homes: MFA Thesis - Sculpture
(2020-05)My work, Made in the USA , focuses on the environment, communication, and identity. Using critical humor along with dark playfulness, I open doors to difficult conversations relating to issues of overconsumption and the ... -
Attention to low & high prevalence events in action video game players & non-action video game players using sustained multiple object tracking & change detection tasks
(2020-05)Surveillance is an important real-world skill involving several cognitive abilities over a prolonged period. Multiple object tracking (MOT) and change detection research have begun to conceptualize the cognitive processes ... -
Between / spaces: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2020-05)Using metal as a drawing tool, my work expands the traditional vocabulary of mark-making. I strive to create aesthetic compositions with metal serving as both paintbrush and canvas, exploring and capturing the conversation ... -
Reliquien: MFA Thesis - Photography and Related Media
(2020-05)My father lives in a town I can not get lost in. He still inhabits my childhood home, surrounded by a collection of objects and photographs arrayed as shrines to his American Dream. Both the town and the man seem alien to ... -
Music therapy in the NICU and PICU : a program proposal for WakeMed Children’s Hospital
(2020-05)This proposal is for a music therapy program for the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at WakeMed Children’s Hospital, located at the WakeMed Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North ... -
“Nobody Sees Me Lying There With Depression” : an arts-based research project on a music therapy intern’s experience of major depressive disorder
(2020-05)Through arts-based research, I studied my experience as a music therapy intern with major depressive disorder. I explored how a depressive episode impacted my work as an intern and how the episode affected my transition ... -
Music therapy as a tool for recovery : a program proposal for Mountainside Addiction Treatment Center
(2020-05)I am proposing a music therapy program for Mountainside Addiction Treatment Center (Mountainside), at their main campus by the foothills of the Berkshire mountain range in Canaan, Connecticut. The purpose of this paper is ... -
Financial perspectives of emerging adults : similarities and differences between gen-zeds and millennials
(2020-05)Emerging adults (individuals ages 18-24) today are struggling with finance. In fact, financial factors make up four of the top five stressors of college students today (Sinha et al., 2018) while, at the same time, much ... -
Coral observations: MFA Thesis - Printmaking
(2020-05)The first time I plunged into the ocean and opened my eyes to the bustling world of a coral reef was unforgettable. Equally remarkable has been the effect humans have imposed there, from rising temperatures and acidity to ... -
The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be, or, How I learned to stop worrying about my future, accept the fact that I’m going to die, and make a bunch of pictures about it: MFA Thesis - Photography and Related Media
(2020-05)Americans like to believe that we are better than everyone else. It is deeply ingrained into the culture we consume, even before we start school as children. TV and films portray a heroic American superhero defeating the ...
