Education
M.P.S., Art Therapy, Pratt Institute
B.A., Psychology and Fine Arts,
University of Toledo
Lisa Martinelli Beasley, MPS, ATR-BC, CCLS
Clinical Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director
Contact Info
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Areas of Expertise
Child Life
Psychosocial care of pediatric oncology patients
Death, dying, bereavement, and palliative care
Biography
Lisa Martinelli Beasley joined the Department of Family Studies and Community Development in 2006. Prior to her appointment at Towson University, she worked clinically as a Certified Child Life Specialist and Board Certified Art Therapist in children’s hospitals located in New York and Ohio. Much of her clinical experience centered on providing child life and art therapy interventions for pediatric hematology/oncology patients and their families.
Since joining the Department of Family Studies and Community Development, she has taught undergraduate and graduate child life and related courses. She serves as the graduate program director for the M.S. in Child Life, Administration, and Family Collaboration and provides student advising for both undergraduate introduction to child life track students and graduate child life students.
Certifications
Certified Child Life Specialist
Board Certified Art Therapist
Memberships/Affiliations
American Art Therapy Association
Association of Child Life Professionals
Courses Taught
- FMST 240 - Introduction to Child Life
- FMST 297 - Preparing Human Service Workers: Pre-Internship
- FMST 397 - Internship in Family and Human Services
- FMST 602 - Child Life Professional Seminar
- FMST 604 - Bereavement, Grief, & Loss; A child life perspective
- FMST 697 - Graduate Internship in Family Studies and Community Development