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Jasmine Edwards

Music Adjunct Faculty

Music and Performing Arts Professions

Jasmine Edwards, MA, LCAT, MT-BC (she/her) is a Doctoral Fellow within Steinhardt Music Education with a focus in music therapy at New York University. Jasmine holds a BM and MA in music therapy from Florida State University and NYU, respectively. Her clinical experiences include private practice, outpatient, school-based, and medical pediatric settings, and she is trained in NICU-MT, First Sounds: Rhythm, Breath, Lullaby, and Austin Vocal Psychotherapy. 

Jasmine has a vested interest in elevating dialogues about cultural humility within music therapy education and clinical practice. Her current doctoral research explores the lived experiences of BIPOC-identified music therapy educators who teach classes about the role of culture in clinical practice. She has served as an adjunct faculty member in the music therapy departments at Howard University, New York University, Montclair State University, Nazareth College, Duquesne University, and Molloy University. 

Courses: 

MPAMT-GE 2939 Cultural Humility in Music Therapy Practice

MPAMT-GE 2931 Mus Therapy: Adv Methods- Children 

MPAMT-GE 2949 Music Therapy Thesis

 

Selected Publications

Works in Peer-Reviewed Journals 

Sajnani, N., Williams, B., Yuan Low, M., Edwards, J., Dixon, S., Stevens, A. D.-F., Morris, M., Yeung Li, S., Garcia Rodriguez, I., Ikram, S., Bell, W., & Rodriguez Perez, C. (2023). Turbulence: Arts-based participatory action research on the experience of creative arts therapists and creatives who identify as black and people of colour. Drama Therapy Review9(1), 129–154. https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00123_1 

Lichtl, A., Casaw, C., Edwards, J., Popkin, K., Yu, J., Li, Q. S., Cadwell, M., Mao, J. J., & Liou, K. T. (2022). Music therapy for pain in black and white cancer patients: A retrospective study. Journal of Pain and Symptom Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.07.007 

Edwards, J. (2021). Living in “Turbulence”. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy21(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3165

Chapters in Edited Collections 

Edwards, J. (2023). How it feels to be free: Reflections on the relationship between music and spirituality at the end of life. In Potvin, N., & Myers-Coffman, K. (Eds.). Portraits of everyday practice: Case studies for music therapy clinicians. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003123798

Edwards, J. (2022). The nuance of blackness: reflections on cultural misconceptions in clinical practice. In Gilboa & Hakvoort (Ed.). Breaking strings: Explorations of mistakes in music therapy. ArtEZ Press.

Edwards, J. (2022). Cultural humility in music therapy practice. Beer, L. & Birnbaum, J. (Eds.), Trauma-informed music therapy: Theory and practice. Taylor & Francis Group.  

Other Works 

Edwards, J.  and Bakouros, S., "Music Therapy for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome" (2018). Crossroads of Music and Medicine. 3. 
https://remix.berklee.edu/mh-exchange-music-medicine/3

Programs

Music Therapy

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