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Brian Abrams
Professor, Cali School of Music, Dean's Office, College of the Arts
- Office:
- Chapin Hall 344
- Email:
- abramsb@montclair.edu
- Phone:
- 973-655-3458
- Degrees:
- BA, Vassar College
- BS, State University of New York @ New Paltz
- MMT, Temple University
- PhD, Temple University
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Brian Abrams (He/Him), Ph.D., MT-BC, LCAT, Analytical Music Therapist and Fellow of the Association for Music and Imagery, has been a music therapist since 1995, with experience across a wide range of clinical contexts. Prior to his current position at Montclair State University as Professor of Music and Graduate Program Coordinator of Music Therapy, he served on the faculty at Immaculata University (2004-2008) and Utah State University (2001-2004). He has published and presented internationally on a wide range of topics such as music therapy in cancer care, music psychotherapy, music therapy and transgenerational trauma, humanistic music therapy, and the interdisciplinary area of Health Humanities, including his role as one of five authors of a 2015 book by that title. He has also contributed to the establishment of several medical music therapy programs. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, such as Music Therapy Perspectives, the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy. From 2005 to 2011, he served on the Board of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), including as President from 2007-2009. From 2005 through the present, he has served on the AMTA Assembly of Delegates, including as Assembly Representative on the AMTA Board of Directors from 2010-2013 (including as Assembly Speaker from 2012-2013), and as an Assembly Representative Alternate from 2020-2023.
Specialization
Music Psychotherapy, Music Therapy in Cancer Care, Music Therapy and Trans-generational Trauma, Humanistic Perspectives on Music Therapy, Health Humanities
Office Hours
Fall
- Wednesday
- 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- Remote Office Hour Option: https://montclair.zoom.us/j/84864925354
- Thursday
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
- Remote Office Hour Option: https://montclair.zoom.us/j/84864925354
Spring
- Wednesday
- 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Remote Office Hour Option: https://montclair.zoom.us/j/84864925354
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