As the only Master of Arts in Art Therapy program in Northern California, Dominican University of California offers an intimate on-campus learning environment designed to prepare students for successful careers in art therapy while encouraging the artistic and therapeutic process.
This showcases doctoral dissertations from the students of the Art Therapy program.
Dissertations from 2023
Clay Use as Mindfulness for Women in Early Substance Use Recovery, Cheryl Feldman
In-Between Space: Latinas Sharing their Stories of Cultural Integration, Maria Elena Fuster
The Course of COVID: How Has the Pandemic Changed the Ways Therapists Use Art in Their Therapeutic Practice?, Deborah Sharpe
Dissertations from 2022
Failure: A Heuristic Inquiry of the Experience of Failure Through a Nature Based Art Therapy Process, Lisa Manthe
Dissertations from 2020
Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy and Connectedness: Art as a Means to Spiritual Care for Asian Seniors, Chia-Yun Chiang
Seeing Resilience: A Qualitative and Arts-Based Research Study to Understand Images Made in a Photography-Based Mentoring Program, Sarah E. Kremer
Dissertations from 2019
Art and Drumming: A Study on Affect, Attachment and Self-Esteem within the Older Adult Population, Deanna Mank
Art Based Communication for Individuals with Dissociative Spectrum Disorders, Cynthia Wilson
Empowering Korean Adolescent Girls Using Smartphones as a Stimulus for Creative Expression: Response Art and Dialogue, Jee Hyun Kim
Dissertations from 2017
A Heuristic and Qualitative Study Investigating the Mechanisms of Change in Art Therapy, Brooke J. Sevin
Dissertations from 2016
Acquiring New Knowledge Through Art Self-Exploration and Collective Journaling to Enhance Cultural Humility in Art Therapy, Louvenia Jackson
Amplified Voices: Art-Based Inquiry Into Elder Communication, Erin Partridge
Art Response to Confusion, Uncertainty, and Curiosity During Group Art Therapy Supervision, Gwen J. Sanders
Implementing mindfulness skills in adolescence and increasing emotional intelligence, Sasha Shokrian
The Art Encounter for Self-Reflection: An Art-Based Phenomenological Inquiry, Karrie Marie Stafford
Three Decades of Trauma-informed Education and Art Therapy: An Effectiveness Study, Amy Kristin Hill