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?
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My topic explores the possibilities and experiences clay work offers to the exceptional child. I investigate the relationship of learned helplessness to the use of the third hand in the art making process.
Read Moreby Catherine Swanston
This study examines the usefulness of including the game of Scribble Tag in the initial assessment process with children who have witnessed and experienced abuse.
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 Amy Allan
Research for this paper is based on a retrospective analysis of the artwork and therapeutic process of an adolescent boy. The client's art therapy process has been presented as a poetic narrative which explores the creative and destructive elements of adolescent identity formation.
Read Moreby Jan Souza
As a mental health professional, I have initiated and co-facilitated a spontaneous art therapy group for eating-disordered adolescent clients for the last four years. My thesis is that art can act as symbolic food, which is in the control of the client, thus empowering them to help themselves and improve their overall health.
Read Moreby Avril Symington
The present self-study documents my personal experience of the effectiveness of the scribble technique, introduced in Florence Cane's book The Artist in Each of Us, in identifying and overcoming my "therapeutic resistance" in art therapy. The issue of resistance, my perception of it, and my struggle to get beyond it, are documented in my scribble images and the written descriptions which accompany them.
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