Dr. Shoshi Keisari, PhD

Dr. Shoshi Keisari is a lecturer at the School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa, Israel. She is a member of the Center for Research and Study of Aging at the Emilie Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa, Israel. She earned her PhD on ‘Integrating Life-Review and Playback Theater for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: An Applied Theoretical Model’ from the Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, Israel, under the supervision of Professor Yuval Plagi, Professor Anat Gesser-Edlsburg, and Dr. Dani Yaniv. She completed her post-doctoral work at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy, and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua, Italy, under the supervision of Professor Ines Testoni.

Research Interests:

  • Creative arts therapies for the older population
  • Psychotherapy and tele-psychotherapy for the older population
  • Arts and creativity in older age
  • Narrative gerontology
  • Social connectedness in the older population

Keywords:

Creative arts therapies; Drama therapy; Tele-health; Psychotherapy; Narrative gerontology; Social connectedness.

SDG Keywords: Marginalised; Mental health; Vulnerable; Mental health; Empowering women; Culture

Recent Publications

She can be contacted at: skeisari@gmail.com