by Katy Vinson
Participating in an Art Group is an opportunity for people receiving psychiatric services to actively create health in their lives. The intention of this paper is to: document a PowerPoint presentation, demonstrate the heath created by the Art Group, provide information on the approaches used in the Art Group and to encourage and promote the continuation of the Art Group.
Read Moreby Jessica A. Fukushima
This thesis paper is designed to look at how art therapy came to be integrated into a hospice day program and to demonstrate the value of art therapy to this unique population through capturing of their experiences and accounts and what is the lived experience of knowing that you have a life-threatening to investigate illness.
Read Moreby Sarah Leyes
This thesis asks the question how does short-term art therapy assess and improve appropriate emotional expression and emotional identification?
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 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 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 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?"
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