Dr. William Michael Bukowski, PhD
Professor and Research Chair in Early Adolescent Development , Psychology
Principal, Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability
| Email: | William.Bukowski@concordia.ca |
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Education
PhD (Michigan State University)
Research interests
WilliamM. Bukowskiis a Professor in the Department of Psychology. He holds a University Research Chair in earlyadolescent development. From 2008 to 2016 he was the director of the Centrede recherche en développement humain,. He is the 2014 recipient of the John P HillMemorial Award from the Society forResearch in Adolescence and is a Charter Fellow of the InternationalSociety for the Study of Behavioral Development.
The goal of his research program is to understand how and why children's and adolescents' experiences with their peers affect competence and well-being. His projects are aimed at identifying and measuring the fundamental characteristics of children's interactions and relationships with their peers and determining how these experiences affect behavioral development, emotional adjustment and physical health. His laboratory has a particular interest in the processes that account for the protective effects of friendship on anxiety. The current themes of his research projects are (a) contextual/cultural differences in peer experiences and the processes that account for variations in the effects of peer relations; (b) the intersection between peer experiences and psychophysiology especially the response to stress; (c) the origins, structure, and functioning of the self concept; and (d) gender differences especially as they are related to culture. His laboratory is also specialized in several forms of measurement including sociomtric measures, peer assessment, and self-report measures of multiple components of anxiety, friendship experiences, and aspects of the self concept.
Teaching activities
Awarded a Curriculum Innovation Fund Grant
For the Development of the first blended and online course in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies
CATS 210 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES
CATS 210 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES Blended Learning Course
CATS 210 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE ARTS THERAPIES Blended Classroom and online Learning Course
Offered Fall, 2017
CourseDescription:
Inthis blended learning course students will be introduced to the basic conceptsand practices of creative arts therapies - art therapy, drama therapy, musictherapy, and dance therapy. Studentswill learn general theories and themes common to all of the creative artstherapies related to creative process, creative projection, meaning making,expression, therapeutic space, symbols, and witnessing. These themes will be explored throughintegrating in class discussion and experiential activities, films, videoclips, interviews, readings, podcasts, blogs, and assigned field trips. This course will give students theopportunity to gain an understanding of how the creative arts therapiesfunction, the range of professional practices, and give a wide overview of thefield.
CATS 638 CREATIVE PROCESS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
CATS 638 CREATIVE PROCESS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
May/June 2017
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
In this class students willhave the opportunity to experience, document, and learn about the creativeprocess through the use of myth and story. Students will choose a character from a myth or story that reflects theirown personal journey. In class they willexplore this character through the use of masks, movement, art, drama, andmusic. Through readings, discussions andcreative exercises students will learn the documented stages of creativeprocess and how this can be a model for personal and clinical growth.
Selected publications
Publications- myth and fairy ale in therapy
Silverman, Y. (2004). The story within - myth and fairy tale in therapy. The Arts in Psychotherapy. Vol31/3 pp. 127-135
Silverman, Y. (2005). Drama therapy -theoretical approaches. In Brooke, S. Creative arts therapies modalities a guide to the history, theoretical approaches, assessment, and work with special populations of art, play, dance, music, drama, and poetry therapies New York: Charles C Thomas
Silverman, Y. (2007). Drama therapy with adolescent survivors of sexual abuse: the use of myth, metaphor and fairytale.In Brooke, S. The use of the creative therapies with sexual abuse survivors. New York: Charles C Thomas
Publications - Suicide
Silverman, Y., Smith, F., Burns, M. (2013). Coming Together in Pain and Joy: A Multicultural and Arts-Based Suicide Awareness Project. The Arts in
Psychotherapy. Vol 40 pp. 216 - 223
Silverman, Y. (2013). We need to talk more not less about suicide, Opinion piece, Montreal Gazette,May 7, 2013
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