Rate My Professor Abbey Dvorak

Dvorak has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications advancing music therapy practices and education. Key works include "Therapeutic Group Singing for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: A Conceptual Framework" (2023, Music Therapy Perspectives), "Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training With Music Therapy Interventions for Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Quasi-Experimental Nonequivalent Control-Group Pilot Study" (2022, Journal of Music Therapy), "Music and Mindfulness Meditation: Comparing Four Music Stimuli Composed Under Similar Principles" (2020, Psychology of Music), "Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience: Music Education and Music Therapy Student Outcomes" (2021, Journal of Music Teacher Education), "Explanatory Sequential Descriptive Analysis of Music Therapists’ Clinical Practice for Individuals with Eating Disorders" (2023, The Arts in Psychotherapy), and "Using the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) in Music Therapy Clinical Practice" (2018, Music Therapy Perspectives). She received the Iowa Mid-Career Faculty Scholar Award for 2024-2027 and the 2025 Williams-Cannon Faculty Fellowship from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, providing $47,500 for research on music therapy interventions for neurodegenerative diseases, including therapeutic singing for Parkinson’s and development of a rural-access training workbook.