Welcome to the 34th AMTA National Conference
Gender, Age and Ethnicity in Music Therapy
PDS: Thursday 18th and Friday 19th September 2008
Conference: Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September 2008
Mercure Hotel Brisbane
85-87 North Quay
Brisbane, Queensland 4003
This year, AMTA is pleased to announce two keynote speakers
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Saturday 20th September
Dorit Amir
 Professor Dorit Amir is a registered music therapist who lives and works in Israel. She studied music therapy at New York University, USA. In 1982 she founded and has been the head of the Music Therapy MA Program at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Professor Amir has worked with a rich variety of populations and supervised music therapists in Israel, New York, Finland and Norway. She has published extensively and been a guest lecturer in Hungary, USA, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany and Russia, as well as at several world congresses. Dr Amir is the past European editor of Voices and currently is on the editorial board of The Arts and Psychotherapy and Barcelona's Monograph Series Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy.
She has been a member of the scientific committee of the 9th, 10th and 11th World Congresses in Music Therapy. Her present research projects and interests include: qualitative research; music and the holocaust; women, trauma and music therapy; supervision; and spiritual and multicultural elements in music therapy.
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NATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Sunday 21st September
Dr Katrina McFerran, PhD, RMT
 Dr Katrina McFerran is one of Australia’s leading music therapy researchers, combining her academic career with her extensive practice experience. She specialises in the role of music therapy in the prevention and support of young people suffering psychological distress, in particular eating or anxiety disorders, depression, bereavement, substance abuse and bullying. Dr McFerran is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. She then practiced as a music therapist before returning to the university for post graduate study and a research career. Her doctoral research investigated the value of group music therapy for younger adolescents who gathered on a weekly basis to jam (improvise) and chat (process) and play stuff (music contributions). As national keynote speaker Dr McFerran will draw together the ideas and outcomes she has explored, particularly utilising her most significant post-doctoral research –a project funded by the Australian Research Council that investigated the role of music therapy in a secondary school working with grieving students.
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