Ayelet Dassa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1849161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayelet Dassa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayelet |
| FAMILY NAME | Dassa |
| SIGNATURE | DASSA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7641-3918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The point isn't that we're old, but that we're the founders’
Home-based music therapy for persons with dementia and their spouses as primary caregivers
Music therapy has been found to be an effective intervention for persons with dementia (PWD) and their primary caregivers (PC), yet the implementation of musical strategies to improve daily care in the home environment requires further exploration. This study developed and examined a home-based music therapy (HBMT) work model that offers weekly joint music therapy sessions, and additional bi-weekly phone-counseling sessions with the PC. This was …
Why Music Therapists Choose to Work with a Clinical Population
(1) Background: Throughout their career, music therapists make decisions regarding the clinical population they choose to work with. Though such decisions can have broad implications on the professional development of the music therapist, not much is known about the reasons for making these decisions and whether they are affected by demographic or professional factors. (2) Methods: In this pilot study, we surveyed 439 music therapists from six co…
Side-by-Side on Stage - Music and Drama Form a Bridge between Acting Students and People with Dementia in an Intergenerational Group Work
This article presents an intergenerational music and drama therapy groups comprised of twelve people with dementia residing in a nursing home and twelve acting students from the community.The qualitative research aimed to explore the students’ attitudes towards elderly people, and to understand the role of creative arts therapies in facilitating intergenerational relationships. Qualitative content analysis of students’ weekly reports and question…
Musical Auto-Biography Interview (Mabi) as promoting self-identity and well-being in the elderly through music and reminiscence
This study presents a technique that is used to create an elderly person's musical autobiography in a one-on-one interview format as a means of promoting well-being and enabling a different connection between the elderly person and the interviewer. Forty-three interviewers' essays documenting these meetings and written in the past 4 years (2012–2016) were analyzed. The interviewers were from diverse disciplines (music therapists, social workers, …
Music therapists in Israel
Background: Since the early 1980s, when the first music therapy training programs in Israel were founded, music therapy in this country has developed tremendously and includes approximately 700 music therapists working in an ever-growing number of educational, medical, and mental health institutions.Objective: In this presentation, findings from a study on music therapists in Israel, their fields of interest and their clinical and theoretical ori…
Musical Auto-Biography Interview (Mabi) as promoting self-identity and well-being in the elderly through music and reminiscence
This study presents a technique that is used to create an elderly person's musical autobiography in a one-on-one interview format as a means of promoting well-being and enabling a different connection between the elderly person and the interviewer. Forty-three interviewers' essays documenting these meetings and written in the past 4 years (2012–2016) were analyzed. The interviewers were from diverse disciplines (music therapists, social workers, …
Side-by-Side on Stage - Music and Drama Form a Bridge between Acting Students and People with Dementia in an Intergenerational Group Work
This article presents an intergenerational music and drama therapy groups comprised of twelve people with dementia residing in a nursing home and twelve acting students from the community.The qualitative research aimed to explore the students’ attitudes towards elderly people, and to understand the role of creative arts therapies in facilitating intergenerational relationships. Qualitative content analysis of students’ weekly reports and question…
Music therapists in Israel
Background: Since the early 1980s, when the first music therapy training programs in Israel were founded, music therapy in this country has developed tremendously and includes approximately 700 music therapists working in an ever-growing number of educational, medical, and mental health institutions.Objective: In this presentation, findings from a study on music therapists in Israel, their fields of interest and their clinical and theoretical ori…
Musical Auto-Biography Interview (Mabi) as promoting self-identity and well-being in the elderly through music and reminiscence
This study presents a technique that is used to create an elderly person's musical autobiography in a one-on-one interview format as a means of promoting well-being and enabling a different connection between the elderly person and the interviewer. Forty-three interviewers' essays documenting these meetings and written in the past 4 years (2012–2016) were analyzed. The interviewers were from diverse disciplines (music therapists, social workers, …
Side-by-Side on Stage - Music and Drama Form a Bridge between Acting Students and People with Dementia in an Intergenerational Group Work
This article presents an intergenerational music and drama therapy groups comprised of twelve people with dementia residing in a nursing home and twelve acting students from the community.The qualitative research aimed to explore the students’ attitudes towards elderly people, and to understand the role of creative arts therapies in facilitating intergenerational relationships. Qualitative content analysis of students’ weekly reports and question…
Why Music Therapists Choose to Work with a Clinical Population
(1) Background: Throughout their career, music therapists make decisions regarding the clinical population they choose to work with. Though such decisions can have broad implications on the professional development of the music therapist, not much is known about the reasons for making these decisions and whether they are affected by demographic or professional factors. (2) Methods: In this pilot study, we surveyed 439 music therapists from six co…
Home-based music therapy for persons with dementia and their spouses as primary caregivers
Music therapy has been found to be an effective intervention for persons with dementia (PWD) and their primary caregivers (PC), yet the implementation of musical strategies to improve daily care in the home environment requires further exploration. This study developed and examined a home-based music therapy (HBMT) work model that offers weekly joint music therapy sessions, and additional bi-weekly phone-counseling sessions with the PC. This was …
The point isn't that we're old, but that we're the founders’
Music Therapy and Health (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Music therapy (4 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (2 works) · Art (2 works)