The Dualities Within: Creating Change and Transformation Using Right Brain Interventions in Trauma-Informed Art Therapy

2021Zoe FeeJune 16, 2022trauma, post traumatic stress disorder, neuroscience, hermeneutic, dream work

Art Therapy Shining Light on the Shadows of PTSD Creating Resiliency and Health

2017Laura TownendMarch 13, 2019law enforcement, post traumatic stress disorder, phenomenology, thematic analysis, hermeneutic, neuroscience

Emerging Identity

2017Marnie DelangheMarch 13, 2019male, treatment centre, hermeneutic, phenomenology, community, case study, group art therapy, addiction, dual-diagnosis, schizophrenia, treatment plan

Psychodynamic Inquiries into Parallel Processes in Art Therapy: Client and Intern

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?

2016Heidi BraggJuly 16, 2016art therapy education, practicum, art therapy training, hermeneutic, psychodynamic, parallel process, gender, case study, theory and practice, supervision

Rebel Agents of Transformation: Altered art in Alternative Education Programs

by Aislinn Cornett

This thesis explores the question: what is the value and function of creating altered art objects in an alternative education program with at-risk adolescents?

2015Aislinn CornettJuly 15, 2016altered art, alternative education, high school, adolescent, hermeneutic, phenomenology, arts-based research, at-risk youth, group art therapy, poetry, identity, child development, social constructionism

A Recipe For Integrating Self

by Juanita Kiff

The intention of this study is to assess the benefits of using the Expressive Therapies Continuum when working with issues stemming from adoption.

2013Juanita KiffJuly 13, 2016expressive arts, expressive therapies continuum, adoption, hermeneutic, phenomenology, developmental theory, thematic analysis, self-regulation, anxiety, storytelling, language, cognition

Finding Essence in a Shared Embrace: Co-construction of meaning with cancer survivors in art-based group interactive art therapy

by Sanda Ottewell-Watson

This research enquiry links theoretical perspectives of art therapy and cancer care to the potential for art and art making as a means for co-creating meaning, by creating art alongside others in an interactive studio environment.

2013Sanda Ottewell-WatsonJuly 13, 2016arts-based research, cancer, meaning making, heuristic, hermeneutic, phenomenology, poetry, dance

Mask Work: Increasing Imagination and Developing Self Awareness In Children

by Janet L. Kares Groom

This thesis examines the experiences of four children who engaged with therapeutic mask work in a safe environment. Prompted by the research question “How does participating in mask work in a guided workshop contribute to a child’s ability to enter liminal/potential space?” this thesis considers the impact of intuitive mask making and directed play.

2012Janet L. Kares GroomJuly 12, 2016children, mask, child development, imagination, identity, phenomenology, self-knowledge, expressive arts, self-awareness, writing, hermeneutic

Recycling the World Through Art Therapy: Implementation of Ecological Ideas in Art Therapy with Children

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.

2011Tzipora WeinbergJuly 11, 2016ecology, ecological identity, eco art therapy, relational, developmental theory, hermeneutic, phenomenology, metaphor, recycled material, art materials

Visual Mythopoesis in the Community Art Studio: A Case Study

by 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.

2008Jean TaitJuly 8, 2016mythopoesis, storytelling, aboriginal, culture, phenomenology, case study, trauma, hermeneutic, open studio

Presenting the Self: An Inquiry into the Function of Photographic Self-Portraits with Men in Addictions Groups

by 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.

2008Jeremy AddingtonJuly 8, 2016psycho-education, outpatient, healthcare system, photography, identity, self-awareness, hermeneutic, phenomenology, group art therapy, mental health, addiction, male

Building Resiliency: Art therapy as a treatment for a child with suicidal ideation

by 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.

2008Nicole Gabrielle LeBihanJuly 8, 2016hermeneutic, suicide, children, phenomenology, thematic analysis, theory and practice, resiliency

The Chaos of Destruction and the Brilliance of Creation: Art Therapy and Evil Puppets

by Jennifer Peterson

This thesis examines the value of creating evil puppets in Art Therapy treatment with latency aged boys who have experienced domestic violence.

2004Jennifer PetersonJuly 4, 2016puppets, children, retrospective, case study, group art therapy, kleinian, object relations, anxiety, recycled material, hermeneutic, ambivalence, paranoid schizoid, depressive, domestic violence, male

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