Lisa Martinelli Beasley, MPS, ATR-BC, CCLS

Clinical Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director

Lisa Martinelli Beasley, MPS, ATR-BC, CCLS

Contact Info

Phone:
Office:
College of Liberal Arts
Room 2210E

Education

M.P.S., Art Therapy, Pratt Institute

B.A., Psychology and Fine Arts,
University of Toledo

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 Science 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 Science, 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 Science