by Tzipora Weinberg
This research project focuses on the development of an ecological identity in children (ages 7 - 10), and the value of ecological intention in art therapy treatment.
Read Moreby Nicole Marie Tarasiuk
Can Parent Child Dyad Art Therapy in a community setting function as Early Intervention?
Read Moreby Sarah Roesler
This paper presents a qualitative study of the use of art therapy in the maintenance of ‘self’ with six individuals in the advanced stages of dementia. It seeks to find ways for health care professionals, therapists, and caregivers to maintain quality of life and help those in the severe stages of dementia preserve a sense of self.
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 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 Gerri Ann Riehl
This thesis examines how art making can be utilized in the Supervision process as a way of strengthening the identity, resiliency, and holding capacity of the art therapist.
Read Moreby David W. Holliday
This thesis examines the experiences of a Salvation Army Officer as he attempted to combine the roles of chaplain and art therapist in an addictions treatment centre.
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 Sabine Fleschutz
This thesis shows the development of a student at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute during her two years of study. It attempts to show how vital the preparation and presentation of a personal case study is at the end of the study for the purpose of integration and completion.
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 Steve Heynen
This study investigates aggressive imagery in the art and play of latency-age children (7-11 years), seeking to clarify the possible meanings and messages communicated by that imagery. The specific question addressed is: what may be communicated by aggression in the imagery of latency-age children?
Read Moreby Jeremy Addington
A qualitative study of a group of men with addictions in an intensive, psycho-educational, outpatient program using art therapy interventions and phototherapy exercises to increase self-awareness and self-understanding.
Read Moreby David Baudemont, PhD.
A new analytical method based on the writing of monologues has been used to interpret the obsessions and compulsive behaviours of an 11-year-old boy with autism.
Read Moreby Deborah Theriault
This thesis describes the art therapy process of patients, on an individual basis, making a quilt for the oncology ward. The question of this thesis is: What do cancer patients express in the content of their artwork?
Read Moreby Brandon Murdoch
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 Nicole Gabrielle LeBihan
This thesis explores how art therapy functions as a valuable treatment for childhood suicide. A retrospective case study of a nine-year old boy is presented using a hermeneutic phenomenological framework to analyze the data.
Read Moreby Felicitas Drobig, OSU
This thesis explores the relationship between creation, Creator and the creative act. It traces models of Christian relationship to the land and highlights Hildegard of Bingen's concept of "veriditas" or greening power. It presents the art of ten women who were asked to depict their relationship with God through using nature and/or weather metaphor.
Read Moreby Jennifer Hakola
This study examines the value of art therapy for the elderly in a long term care facility. Psychoanalysis, object relations theory, and phenomenology are highlighted in relation to the art therapy approach used in this study.
Read Moreby Laura K. Tibando
The purpose of this study is to investigate themes of containment and security as reflected in constructed houses and environments by children in an art therapy group.
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).
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