Varvara Pasiali, PhD, MT-BC, is an associate professor of music therapy at Queens University of Charlotte. She completed her Master’s in music therapy at the University of Kansas and her doctorate at Michigan State. Her research interests include early intervention, prevention, resilience, and parent-child attachment/reciprocity. Dr. Pasiali is a regular presenter at conferences and has published in various journals. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Music Therapy, and Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy.
Mentioned in this podcast:
The Foundations of Social Research by Michael Crotty
The effect of musical attention control training (MACT) on attention skills of adolescents with neurodevelopmental delays: a pilot study. Pasiali, LaGasse, and Penn (2014)
A Clinical Case Study of Family-Based Music Therapy by Pasiali (2013)
Supporting parent-child interactions: music therapy as an intervention for promoting mutually responsive orientation. Pasiali (2012)
Music for this podcast is “Povo Que Caís Descalco” by Dead Combo.