by Angelica Atkins
This self-study was an arts-based exploration of identity through spontaneous art making and poetry writing in the context of the final year of training group at an art therapy institute.
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The intention of this thesis is to examine the lived experience of immigrant women on their path towards a new cultural identity in the context of using art therapy, participatory photography and personal narratives.
Read Moreby Laura Andrew
The intention of this research study was to explore the value of a therapeutic art group for international high school students.
Read Moreby Theresa Swan
This thesis is a response to the question: What is the value and significance of integrating art therapy and a feminist approach in working with women who have experienced violence?
Read Moreby Jeffrey More
This booklet intends to show that art therapy is an exceptional way to meet the healing needs of First Nations’ people and communities. It also will demonstrate that the practice of art therapy has similarities with First Nations’ cultural practices.
Read Moreby Jordan Sombrutzki
This thesis explores therapeutic presence in the non-clinical setting of an after school program with pre-teens facilitated by an art therapy intern.
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 Judy L. Whitford
This thesis explores the experience of Aboriginal children participating in art therapy with a focus on how art provides a language to express their inner thoughts and emotions.
Read Moreby Cori Devlin
This thesis represents a broad stroke across the history of cross cultural arts and healing rituals, the history of the art of the mentally ill and the psychological theories that informed the development of art therapy as a profession. The question explored in this thesis is: "How can art therapy history and theory be intentionally integrated to develop a studio based art therapy model that would enhance the therapeutic benefits of art making for people experiencing mental illness?"
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 Audrey Ward
There is a legacy of abused and neglected children in First Nations communities resulting from what amounts to ongoing attempted cultural genocide by the Provincial and Federal Governments of Canada. My thesis is that the use of art is helpful in assisting clients to identify and work through issues, which are a direct result of 123 years of enforced, mandatory attendance at Indian residential schools.
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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