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.
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 Jeffrey More
This booklet intends to show that art therapy is an exceptional way to meet the healing needs of First Nations’ people and communities. It also will demonstrate that the practice of art therapy has similarities with First Nations’ cultural practices.
Read Moreby Zoe Armstrong
This thesis will explore the question: What are benefits and challenges of integrating a bi-weekly art therapy program into an alternative education setting with youth at risk?
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby Angela M. Poot
This case study demonstrates the value of using computers creatively for the development of self among at-risk youth.
Read Moreby Jackie Laverty
This thesis asks the question: how does early intervention of art therapy benefit children affected by FASD?
Read Moreby 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.
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