HYUN JU CHONG earned her Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy at the Western Illinois University, Masters degree in Music Therapy at Temple University and presently is a doctoral candidate in Music Therapy at the University of Kansas. She is a Board Certified Music Therapist. After completing her Masters degree, Chong worked as a music therapy clinician with a wide variety of clients in clinical settings and taught Music Therapy at Ewha Women’s University and Hanshin University in South Korea. She presents regularly at local, regional, national, and international levels including the Kansas Music Educators Association, American Music Therapy Association, World Congress of Music Therapy, and International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Hyun Ju Chong’s research topics and interests focus on music therapy interventions in psychodyamic orientation. As a doctoral candidate, she has been teaching music therapy courses and supervising music therapy students in clinical field work settings at the University of Kansas since 1997. For her dissertation, Hyun Ju Chong has been researching the relationships between self-concept and vocal characteristics in a music therapy setting.
