Experience Music Therapy During Catholic Artistic Imagination Series Event

For 60 years, music therapy as a discipline has been bridging the gap between art and science to help ease the pain of people experiencing physical, mental and emotional distress. Faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to experience music therapy and explore its multi-faceted value with Dr. Elaine Abbott at Music as Therapy.

Participants at this next installment of the 2014-2015 Catholic Artistic Imagination series—which will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in Room 613 of the Union—will learn about music therapy as a profession and, by listening to music together, appreciate how its principles operate.

Abbott, associate professor and chair of music therapy in the Mary Pappert School of Music, has more than 20 years of clinical music therapy experience in skilled nursing facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities and private music psychotherapy practice. She also maintains a small clinical music psychotherapy practice.

“Many different aspects of Duquesne’s Catholic and Spiritan identity come to expression in music therapy,” said Dr. Darlene Weaver, director of the Center for Catholic Intellectual Tradition, which sponsors the Catholic Artistic Imagination series. “It blends the arts, concern for the whole person and the well-being of communities, and rich insight into and expertise facilitating human healing and restorative justice.”

To RSVP to Music as Therapy, email universityevents@duq.edu.