by Erica Gosselin
In this thesis, I explore my personal journey of discovery; I recognize how to balance both sides of my identity - as both an artist and an art therapist - and how to use them to effectively co-create with an eight-year-old girl named Violet.
Read Moreby Sandra Hewitt-Parsons
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of the Witch Behind the Wallpaper is an art show which builds on dream analysis to explore latent themes that relate to childhood dreams and other personal experiences as an eight year old girl and a survivor of a traumatic stroke.
Read Moreby Theresa Swan
This thesis is a response to the question: What is the value and significance of integrating art therapy and a feminist approach in working with women who have experienced violence?
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby Lea Sorli
This study illustrates how people living with dementia hold and can share the wisdom of elders. My focus is two fold: the value of art therapy with people living with dementia, and secondly the value of working with this population for training art therapists.
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 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 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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