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 site brings together a collection of master's theses from the students of the Art Therapy program.
Theses/Capstones from 2013
A Survey of Sandplay Therapy Practices Among Licensed Psychotherapists, Melissa Sherman
AVPT Art Assessment with Survivors of Human Trafficking, Jessica Jarocki
Bereaved Adults' Art Therapy Group, Andrea Hans
CAS with Art and Chronic Pain: The Effects of Clearing a Space with Art on Women with Chronic Pain, Jenny McGrath
Creating Symbols to Identify and Stabilize Character Traits: Using Art Therapy and Positive Psychology Perspective with Adolescents in Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, Faith Matter-Kratzer
Dance Movement and Narrative Art Therapy for Adolescent Girls: A Combined Treatment Approach, Lindsay Parkinson
Digital Art Therapy with Older Adults: An Exploration of the iPad as a Medium, Melissa Kinches
Dreams, Art and Well-Being: A Positive Psychology Approach to Bringing Awareness to Dreams, Margaret Ann Gammie
Focus on Fatherhood: A Visual Journe Using Phototherapy Techniques With At-Risk Teen Fathers, Abby Zimberg
Fostering Resiliency in School Aged Children Through Art Therapy Group Interventions, Ruth Doyle
Harnessing Technology: Art Therapy as Early Intervention in School-Based Counseling for Latino Adolescents with Low SES, Tiffany Landis
I Feel Beautiful: A Narrative Art Therapy Group Designed to Increase Positive Body Image and Self-Esteem in Adult Women, Chelsea Hunter
Increasing Optimism in Adolescents: An Integrative Intervention of Positive Psychology, The Mindup Program, Mindfulness, Yoga, and Art Therapy, Elizabeth Doyle
Increasing Resilience Through Art Therapy in Children with Domestic Violence Exposure, Katleen M. Gilliland
Journeys of Resilience: Awareness of Self-Strength and Coping in the Young Adult Alopecia Areata Population Through Madala Art Therapy, Heather Curtis
Lifting the Voices of Second-Generation Latinos in the Community Through Film, Emily Claire Beirl
Making Meaning of Diabetes Through Art Therapy: An Adjunct to Disease Management in Pediatric Youth, Christine Chanteloup
Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy and Stress Reduction with Veterans Living in Transitional Housing, Chanel R. Wittmershaus
Narrative Art Therapy with Career Counseling to Promote Insight and Decsion-making After Experienceing Job Loss, Sara J. Armstrong
Reminiscence Through Collage: Elders newly Transitioning into an Assisted Living Community, Kelly Kanclerowicz
Speaking of the Unspoken: A Phenomenological Inquiry of Women's Experiences of a First Trimester Induced Abortion Through Particiaption in a Post-Abortion Art Therapy Group, Camille de Meneses
The Implications of TV and Screen Time on the Cognitive Development of Children and the Benefits of Partaking in Art Activities, Marie A. Binlot
The Utilization of Art Therapy and Narrative Therapy in a Support Group for Adults with Facial Disfigurement After Treatment of Cancer, Ornit R. Shoham
Using Art Therapy to Reduce Anxiety and Improve the Quality of Recovery in Post-Operative Patients with Amputations, Jan-Gabrielle Galiñanes
Using the Bridge Art Therapy Assessment to Measure Resiliency Levels in Latino Immigrants: A Review of the Literature, Vanessa Ventura
Using the Kinetic-Family-Drawing (KFD) to Assess Attachment in a Young Adult Population, Jonathan Etkin
Theses/Capstones from 2012
Art Therapists Experiential Interview Using Art Therapy for Individuals with Autism, Melina Diana Antichevich
Art Therapy in Hospice and Palliative Care Setting, Sheryl Llarena
Body Invasion: Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life, Andrea M. Zihar
Color and Emotions: Exploring How Middle-Aged Adults Associate Color and Emotion, Jamie Giannotti
Culturally Sensitive Art Therapy Group with Latina Adolescents, Priscilla Gomez
Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy as a Means of Stress Reduction With Graduate Students, Liz Weiland
Henna Serves as Visual Reminder for Goals or Tasks in an Art Therapy Session, Janali Savarimuthu
Integrating Ecotherapy and Art Therapy to Foster Professional Identity Formation, Elizabeth A. Brandt
"Just Like Us" A Mural Painting Project With Children Living at an Emergency Domestic Violence Shelter, Rachel Howard (Nova)
Normative Study of Art by Children on Autism Spectrum Age 2-14 Years: A Pilot Study, Cora Wood
Playing Together: Using Art-Based Shared Creative Play to Promot Creative Engagement for Elders, Anne D. Danberg
Smoking Cessation and Art Therapy: A Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness Approach to Quitting Cigarettes, Autumn Bayliss
The Efficacy of Sandplay as an Art Therapy Intervention to Improve Communication Between Children With Autism and Their Familes, Julie Rittenmyer
Understanding Parenting Styles, Parenting Satisfaction, and Bird's Nest Drawings of Chinese Immigrant and Euro-American Mothers, Susan M. Lindblade
Using Draw-A-Person in the Rain Projective Drawing Assessment in Measuring Resilience and Coping in Children, Maria Paull
Using Idiomatic Expressions as a Stimulus for Art Therapy with Adolescents With Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism, Kristen Haney
What is Family? Examining Polyamorous Families: Implications for Art Therapists, Jessie Craig