by Angelica Atkins
This self-study was an arts-based exploration of identity through spontaneous art making and poetry writing in the context of the final year of training group at an art therapy institute.
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This thesis asks the question how does short-term art therapy assess and improve appropriate emotional expression and emotional identification?
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 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 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 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 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 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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