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RACHEL HANNAH ORESKY
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

July 2007-Present ART THERAPIST
Belmont Long-Term Structured Residence Program at Einstein, Philadelphia, PA

- Develop and facilitate art therapy treatment goals for adult and elderly residents with chronic mental illnesses.
- Interdisciplinary team member
- Treatment team facilitator and case manager for a group of residents’ treatment goals.
- Maintain individual art therapy treatment caseload.
- Facilitate seven art therapy groups weekly with older and younger adult residents.
- Maintain art materials and budget supplies.


August 2006- ART THERAPY INTERN
May 2007 Abramson Center for Jewish Life, North Wales, PA

- Develop and facilitate art therapy groups for elderly clients with diagnosis of various Dementias.
- Interdisciplinary team member
- Assist with various art crafts activity groups utilizing different media (clay, painting, woodcrafts, decorating bags).
- Manage caseload of art therapy with individuals in nursing home with wide range of functioning.

June 2006- ART THERAPY INTERN FOR BRIDGING THE GAPS
August 2006 LIFE program, Philadelphia, PA

- Act as part of an interdisciplinary team for a summer internship program that does outreach work for the community in need.
- Develop and facilitate a weekly intergenerational art group with seniors in a day program and children in a summer day camp program.
- Structure and organize intergenerational group end of the summer mural project.


January 2006- ART THERAPY INTERN
May 2006 TLC Youth Counsel Services, Blackwood,NJ

- Facilitate art therapy groups with children ages 3-5 with diagnosis of ADHD, ODD, learning disorders.
- Develop appropriate art therapy goals and treatment plans for individual clients.

September 2005- ART THERAPY INTERN
December 2005 Bryn Mawr Adult Inpatient Psychiatric Unit

- Was introduced to mental health systems and learned clinical documentation protocols of treatment assessments and goals.
- Facilitated art therapy groups for patients presenting with wide gamut of mental illnesses.


January 2004- ART THERAPY INTERN
April 2004 Belmont Behavioral Health, Germantown, PA
(Undergraduate concentration in art therapy)

- Attained and applied introductory knowledge of art therapy through observing group psychotherapy with elderly clients with mental health diagnosis
- Worked with individual clients with physical and mental illnesses.


Summers of 2000-2004 VISUAL ARTIST (ART TEACHER)
Round House Summer Arts Camp, Silver Spring, MD


- Develop and carry out daily visual arts program for children ages 5-11 as part of arts-based summer day camp program.
- Organize Tie-Dye day each session.
- Assist with other camp activities planned
- Take on leadership duties of program director when unavailable.


EDUCATION

August 2007 Drexel University, (Formerly MCP Hahnemann University), Philadelphia, PA
Masters of Creative Arts in Therapy


May 2004 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelors of Arts in Painting/Drawing

May 2004 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Certificate of Undergraduate Completion in Art Therapy

Commission Work

6/04-7/04 Mural work, Columbia, MD
5/04 Caricaturist on beer stein for Mask and Wig Theatre, 310 S.Quince St, Philadelphia, PA
6/02-6/04 (Summers) Caricaturist for Mishkan Torah Synagogue, Greenbelt, MD


Exhibitions

6/99 Summer Student Show, Rockville, MD
6/01 University of the Arts Summer Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
4/04 Sienna Gallery Drawing Exhibition, Olde City, Philadelphia, PA
5/04 Senior Painting Showcase, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
11/05 The Well-Fed Artist Gallery, Olde City, Philadelphia, PA
4/06 Olde City Jewish Arts Center, Olde City, Philadelphia, PA
9/07 Glam, Olde City, Philadelphia, PA


Specialized Training

6/96-7/98 Goucher Summer Center for the Arts, Towson, Maryland (Summers)


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Art Therapy Association
Delaware Valley Art Therapy Association



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