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Joan Alpers
Adjunct Associate Professor of Counseling and Mental Health Professions
Degrees
MPS, Pratt Institute; BFA, Long Island Univ Southampton
Bio
Joan Alpers, MSP, LCAT, ATR-BC, CCLS currently directs the Child Life Program at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. With over 30 years of experience, Joan has given numerous presentations and in-services to the Child Life Community, the Art Therapy Community, and the Allied Health Community. In addition, she holds graduate faculty level appointments and maintains a private practice as an art therapist and sandplay practitioner. Joan specializes in the interface of child life and art therapy in a medical setting and has created a class for Hofstra specifically addressing art therapy and child life applications for populations struggling with issues related to medical illness. Joan is an active member and current president of the Child Life Council of Greater New York. She employs a unique combination of sandplay therapy and art therapy for children and adults in her private practice with an emphasis on medical illness, trauma, divorce and related issues of loss and bereavement.
Recent Courses Taught
| Course | Title | Level |
|---|---|---|
| CAT 210 | FNDTNS OF ART THERAPY COUN | Graduate |
| CAT 211 | CHLD & ADOL DEVL ART THRY COUN | Graduate |
| CAT 223 | MULTICLTRL ART THRPY | Graduate |
| CAT 283A | SPC TPC: PLAY THERAPY I | Graduate |
| CAT 284C | SANDTRAY | Graduate |
| CAT 286Z | SPC TPC: ART THRPY APPLICTNS | Graduate |
