by Heidi Bragg
This thesis begins with a single case study that seeks to understand the following question: What are the parallel processes of personal growth for a young female intern and an older male client in a psychodynamic art therapy process?
Read Moreby Michelle Murphy
This research project explored the value and function of group art therapy by illuminating its benefits for individuals with chronic mental illnesses who reside in tertiary psychiatric care.
Read Moreby Jackie Laverty
This thesis asks the question: how does early intervention of art therapy benefit children affected by FASD?
Read Moreby Catherine Karremans
The purpose of this study was to explore how the integration of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and art therapy in a men's residential treatment center would affect the treatment process.
Read Moreby Marcelle Edwards
This thesis explores the building of trust, hope and a heightened sense of positive self identity with culturally diverse groups of people, encountered while working from 2005 to 2008 as a professional cooperant in international development in the South American country of Bolivia.
Read Moreby Jean Tait
In this paper the role visual imagery provides as a foundation for the emergence of storytelling or personal mythmaking (mythopoesis) is examined with an Aboriginal cultural basis. A single case study emerges from one woman's experience in an open community art studio.
Read Moreby Andrea Hrysko
This research paper reviews the process and outcomes of a group of people with developmental disabilities who participated in group art therapy and the co-creation of body imagery (mask-making and body tracing).
Read Moreby Patricia Flynn
This thesis uses a humanistic and phenomenological approach to study a group of seven men and women between the ages of 35 and 70 who took part in empirical and qualitative research. This research examined the essence of how one perceives God and the meaning of “God” in one’s life, especially in times of suffering and confusion.
Read Moreby Jennifer Peterson
This thesis examines the value of creating evil puppets in Art Therapy treatment with latency aged boys who have experienced domestic violence.
Read Moreby Heather Cameron
This thesis gives an overview of the use of art therapy with people in chronic pain. It begins with a discussion of the unknowability of another's pain and the lack of language to communicate the experience of pain. It goes on to suggest that making art can provide an effective vehicle for the expression of pain.
Read Moreby Debra Barrett
This project is designed to explain the efficacy of art therapy for children within school systems, while at the same time pointing out the commonality of purposes contained in both the educational and therapeutic goals.
Read Moreby Irene Crick
A review of available literature has uncovered few direct correlations between art therapy and increased self-esteem in children. This paper demonstrates that two children who came to the attention of special education teachers with a variety of diagnoses and/or issues exhibited a significant rise in self-esteem indicators after a minimum of twenty sessions of art therapy.
Read Moreby Gail Joy
This thesis examines change in the treatment of addictions using an art therapy process, relating it metaphorically to the process of epistemological and ontological change in rites of passage.
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