An Unexpected Alliance: An in-depth Interview
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT In the Spring of 2015, Maria Hodermarska participated in the Moth Radio Hour Community Outreach...
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Relatable Empathy: Teaching Empathy Through Body-Based Movement Groups
By Cathy Lebeaux, MA, MS, LPC, BC-DMT I used to lead groups for children and was often asked, “can you teach empathy and compassion.” ...
Theater as Inclusive Community: Peter and the Star Catcher as Imagined Home
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT This past October, 2018, The NYU Steinhardt Program in Educational Theatre presented a production of...
Psychology Arts
The Problem with Research in the Autism Community
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT *In this blog I will use the term “autistic people” rather than “people living with autism” to honor...
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On Drama Therapy and Finding Beauty
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT Life is unpredictable. That can be frightening. When we face disrupting events, we often don’t know...
Psychology Arts
Destabilizing ableism: Sam Gold’s production of The Glass Menagerie
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT In drama therapy we have long created therapeutic theater performances that place illness or...
Psychology Arts
Disability and the dramatic implications for well-being: Reflections on "The Rider"
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT “. . . we humans are suspended on a web of polarities--the one and the many, eternity and time,...
Psychology Arts
Ambiguous Loss: the Performance of Traumatic Brain Injury and Disability
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT According to the Centers for Disease Control, traumatic brain injuries account for 30% of all injury...
Psychology Arts
Disability and the Challenges of Dramatic Representation
By Maria Hodermarska, LCAT, RDT/BCT I am a cis-identified, white female drama therapist, college professor, woman “of a certain age” and...
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