Dr. Janice Dvorkin

Dr. Janice Dvorkin is presently the coordinator of the Music Therapy Program at the University of the Incarnate Word, in San Antonio, Texas.  She was Past President of the American Association for Music Therapy and is presently an active member of the Assembly of Delegates in the American Music Therapy Association.

She has practiced as a music therapist for 21 years and as a licensed psychologist for 8 years.  Her work, with an emphasis on Borderline Personality Disorder and object Relations theory (as it effects clinical and supervisory work) has been presented nationally and internationally, as well as published in books and journals.  She maintains a clinical supervision practice for music therapists and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Music Therapy.  She was asked to join the music research committee at UTSA and the Health Sciences Center and is finishing her term as Vice-President of the Southwestern region of the AMTA. 

She has been active in licensure issues throughout her career and testified at committee meetings of the Texas legislature to retain the music therapists practice in the state of Texas.  Dr. Dvorkin has recently contributed to the literature on the use of music with people with Williams Syndrome and her most recent publications will be a co-authored chapter on "Peer Supervision in Music Therapy" and a case in a new book on Psychodynamic Case Studies.