M.A. Students

Students name: Talia Elkarif
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Hod Orkibi and Prof. Shoshi Keisari
Title of thesis: Future perspectives of Israeli and Italian older adults during COVID-19 as reflected through an online creative process of photo collages
Status: Completed, 2022

Students name: Tamar Anna Kronenberg
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Hod Orkibi
Title of thesis: The online training experience of drama therapy students with older adults
Status: Completed, 2022

Students name: Hadar Benyamini
Name of Advisor/s: Dr. Yulia Golland
Title of thesis: The effect of dramatic improvisation on social, emotional and cognitive functioning among young and older adults
Status: Completed, 2023

Students name: Neta Singer
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Hod Orkibi
Title of thesis: Older adults’ attitudes towards consumption of creative arts therapies
Status: Completed, 2023

Students name: Naama Golan
Name of Advisor/s: Dr. Rinat Feniger Schaal
Title of thesis: The encounter between the performer and the therapist roles of performing dramatherapists: The dramatherapists’ perspective
Status: Completed, 2023

Students name: Shiri Kordova
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Shoshi Keisari
Title of thesis: The body experiences of older Mizrahi women and their dramatic representations: A theater-based participatory action study
Status: Completed, 2024

Students name: Rama Shefi
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Shoshi Keisari and Prof. Tova Band Winterstein
Title of thesis: Phototherapy in old age: The meaning that photo-therapists provide to their work with old people
Status: Completed, 2024

Students name: Meira Medina-Junga
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Shoshi Keisari and Prof. Dovrat Harel
Title of thesis: The experiences of older women who are spouses of men with dementia in drama-therapy groups: A theater-based participatory action research
Status: Completed, 2024

Students name: Chaya Woslov
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Shoshi Keisari and Prof. Dovrat Harel
Title of thesis: Experiences of older women in community playback theater groups
Status: Completed, 2024

Students name: Michal Ferber
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Shoshi Keisari
Title of thesis: The effect of playing the Squiggle game on cognitive, emotional, and social functions in older adults
Status: In progress

Students name: Gaya Balin
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Shoshi Keisari and Dr. Rinat Feniger Schaal
Title of thesis: Playfulness with older adults and its effects on cognitive and emotional functioning
Status: In progress

Students name: Keren Tuval Mashiach
Name of Advisor/s: Prof. Shoshi Keisari 
Title of thesis: Transference and counter transference in drama therapy
Status: In progress