Gene Ann Behrens, Ph.D., MT-BC
Assistant Professor, Music Therapy
Elizabethtown College
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
203 Zug Hall
Elizabethtown College
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
717-361-1991
behrenga@etown.edu

    Degrees

   Professional Involvement     Recent Presentations
    • "Clinical Applications from the MPEC — Identifying and Understanding Emotions in Music", Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of the American Music Therapy Association, Long Branch, NJ, March 1999.
    • "A Psychometric Evaluation of the MPEC— A Measure to Assess Accuracy in Identifying Emotions Represented by Music Improvisations", Research Poster Presentation, National Association for Music Therapy Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 1997.
    • "A ‘User-Friendly' Approach to Matching Research Designs with Newer SPSS Statistical Procedures", National Association for Music Therapy Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November 1997.
    • "Clinical Supervision- Theory and Application to Music Therapy Students and Interns"; co-presenter via videotape, Kelley Pickreign; National Association for Music Therapy Conference, Orlando, FL, November 1994.
    Publications
    • A Psychometric Evaluation of the MPEC— A Measure to Assess Accuracy in Identifying Emotions Represented by Music Improvisations, (Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, 1997). Dissertation Abstracts International, 1998.
    • An Objective Approach to the Expression of Feelings through Music Therapy, in  R. R. Pratt,  (Ed.), Music Therapy and Music Education for the Handicapped. St. Louis, MO: MMB Music,  1993.
    • The Ability to Identify Emotional Content of Solo Improvisations Performed Vocally and on Three Different Instruments, co-authored with Samuel Green. Psychology of Music, 21, 1993.
    • An Objective Approach to the Subjective Expression of Feelings, Music Therapy Perspectives,  5, 1988.
    • In Search of the Long Assumed Relationship between Rhythm and Movement, Contributions to Music Education, 11, 1984.


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    Courses Taught at Etown