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Occupational Therapy & Arts Therapies

Blanca Hadaad
Visiting Lecturer
Art Therapy

Blanca Hadaad
Visiting Lecturer
Art Therapy
Tel: 0131 474 0000


DINSART’S International Relations Director. Blanca Haddad holds a Degree in Fine Arts (IUESAPAR, Venezuela,1998) with a relevant career as an artist in Latin America where she has participated in cultural projects with vulnerable populations (prisons, internally displaced people). She completed an MA in Art Therapy (University of Barcelona, 2008) and worked as a group Art therapist with people affected by psychosis and major depressions. In 2008, she received the Santander Academic Award to study Social Development and Health in Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh 2010) where she graduated with a distinction. She has researched the use of art as a tool for social development in communities affected by extreme poverty and armed violence. She has recently worked in mental health with adults, elderly people and palliative care. She does group and individual art therapy.

Professional Experience

Feb 2011 -Jun 2011

Art Therapy Project Coordinator , Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance (CEAR) , Spain

Design and implementation of Art Therapy Groups with Asylum seekers and refugees in Barcelona

May 2011 -May 2011

Guest Lecturer, Art Therapy department, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK

Lecture on psychosocial interventions and Art Therapy

May 2011-May 2011

Seminar lecturer, British Association of Art Therapist (BAAT), Edinburgh, UK.

One day seminar on “Art Therapy with victims of violence and torture”.

Oct 2010 -July 2011

International Relations Director, DINSART association of creative therapists.

Coordination of interaction between DINSART and other Associations and creative therapists outside Spain.

April 2010 - April 2010

Seminar Lecturer . BAAT, Glasgow. UK

One day seminar on “Art Therapy, groups and psychosis”. The role of art material and art production as a therapeutic element.

Oct 2006 -May 2008

Art Therapist (Internship ), Day care center for mental health –JOIA, Barcelona, Spain

Group Art therapy for Adults affected by psychosis and chronic depressions.

Oct 2000 - Jul 2011

Art and Poetry Lecturer, University of Art (IUESAPAR), Caracas, Venezuela,

One year course lecturer on the exploration of poetry through art materials.

Dec 2000 - Jan 2001

Art Teacher for IDP children, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.

Art program for children affected by “Vargas mudslides”

Oct 1997 - May 1998

Assistant to the director, Women’s´ Prison of “Los Teques”, Miranda, Venezuela.

Assistant to the director of the theatre program for female prisoners.

Jan 1995 -Oct 1995

Guest Artist, UNICEF- Mayor of Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.

Health-related theatre program for communities affected by extreme poverty.

Education

MSc Social Development and Health (Distinction)
Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK

The IIHD is an International Institute focused on post–graduate education and research in International Health and Development. Research on the potential of art as a psychosocial tool.

MA Art Therapy
University Of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Two years internship with people affected by psychosis.

Degree in Fine Arts
University of Arts, IUESAPAR, Caracas, Venezuela

 


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