who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Dita Judith Federman
University of Haifa, Graduate School
of Creative Art Therapies, DMT
training, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, 31905,
Israel
Keywords empathy, kinesthetic
ability, DMT, group, training,
assessment
Anne Fenech
Keywords leisure, drama,
engagement, neuroscience, therapy
Marián López
Fernández-Cao
Complutense University of Madrid,
Department of Didactics of Plastic
Expression, Faculty of Education,
Office 1611, c/ Rector Royo
Villanova s/n, 28040, 28040, Spain
Keywords art therapy, gender equity,
social change and inclusion, education
Dita Federman is a researcher, lecturer and the director of Dance
Movement Therapy training at the Graduate School of Creative Art
Therapies, University of Haifa, Israel. She is an accredited Dance
Movement Therapist, psychotherapist and senior supervisor (DMT).
Dr. Federman has experience working within psychiatric settings and
with children, adults and the geriatric population.
› Kinesthetic ability and the development of empathy in Dance Movement
Therapy, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 2.2, 137-154.
Anne Fenech is currently a lecturer at the University of Southampton
School of Health Sciences. Her background is in management (MBA),
gerontology (MSc) and occupational therapy (DipCOT). Her career
history has included several Head Occupational therapist posts before
moving into general/policy management and more recently a research
fellowship. She is currently the English Board Member for the South
East Region of the College of Occupational Therapists and also a
Registration Assessor for the Health Professions Council.
› Inspiring transformations through participation in drama for individuals with
neuropalliative conditions, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 1.1, 63-80.
Marián López Fernández-Cao. Ph.D., MA in Psychotherapeutic
Intervention. Senior Lecturer (Tenured) Dept. of Didactics of Plastic
Expression. Faculty of Education. Complutense University of Madrid
(U.C.M.). (Office 1611). Head of Research Team nº 941035:
Aplicaciones del Arte en la Integración Social: Arte, Terapia y
Educación Artística para la Inclusión (UCM). Coordinator of the MA
of Art Therapy and Art Education for Social Inclusion. Director of the
Feminist Research Institute (UCM).
› Social functions of art: Educational, clinical, social and cultural settings.
Trying a new methodology, International Journal of Education through Art,
6.3, 397-412.