by 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 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 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 Linda C. Mahoney
In this paper, the role of movement and the kinaesthetic sense as a form of perception, in combination with the concept of balance and rhythm (Cane, 1983), is explored through a qualitative analysis of the phenomena of vigorous gross motor movement of the arm in the spontaneous creation of images with art media.
Read Moreby Millie Neufeld-Cumming
This study is an exploration into the nature of creativity and its function in the art therapy process with an adolescent client who has issues of anxiety, identity and agoraphobia.
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 Christine Lummis
The purpose of this thesis is to outline ways that art therapy can be integrated into the women's DEW Program. My intention is to raise awareness of ways in which art therapy can act as a primary function within treatment to address addiction and the underlying issues involved.
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 Roger Luscombe
Art therapy can provide a child with the opportunity to heal and grow. In the safety of the Art Therapy room, and with the unconditional support of the therapist, children can utilize their own creative potential to learn, to resolve difficulties and to move on in their lives as balanced individuals. In writing this handbook, it is my hope that parents and caregivers will have available to them some of the basic theory and processes of Art Therapy with children.
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by Diana Hoffman
This study documents the benefits of art-making for 16 family groups of women and children who were invited to participate in a spontaneous art experience while residing at the Transition House in Prince Rupert.
Read Moreby Michelle Stoutenberg
My thesis explores the value of art therapy in the treatment of acquaintance rape in the adolescent population.
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 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 Martine Bedard
Post-session art making is the creation of artwork by the art therapist after an art therapy session with a client or a group. This heuristic study explores the experience of post-session art making by the author and six other art therapy students.
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.
Read Moreby Katharyn E. Morgan
The functions of art-making in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) with children and youth have not previously been fully examined. This study furthers the inquiry in this area by documenting the inclusion of art-making in four specific debriefings with a total of 29 participants, ages 8 to 18 years.
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.
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