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UMass MIND awarded drama therapy grant by National Endowment of the Arts UMMS researchers to pilot virtual theater therapy for adults with serious mental illness By Sandra Gray March 04, 2021 The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a research grant to the UMass MIND program to investigate virtual drama therapy for people recovering from serious mental illness. UMass MIND, the community intervention initiative of the Psychotic Disorders Clinical and Research Program of the Department of Psychiatry, will collaborate with the Drama Therapy Department at Lesley University to develop, implement and assess a novel treatment in a population that often does not respond to conventional treatment.

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