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 1995
The Diagnostic Drawing Series: Research with Depressed Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Adults, Megan J. Burdick-Grade
The Diagnostic Drawing Series: Research with Male Inmates Incarcerated for Murder, Claudee D. Mitchell
The Effects of Adoption on Identity as Assessed by the Kinetic Family Drawing, Colleen Paul
The Experience of Childlessness for Women in Midlife Who Delayed Childbearing Until It Was Too Late, Gail Caufield
The Use of a Body Sculpture Experience as a Means of Addressing Body-Image with Five Women, Jeanne Cory Preville
The Use of Imagery and Visualization in a Cognitive-Based Art Therapy Group to Increase Internality in Adolescent Girls, Kristin Joy Kuhlman
Victim to Victimizer: Breaking the Cycle: An Art Therapy Group Intervention with Sexually Abused Boys in a Residential Settting, Lisa A. Manthe
Visual Construct Choices of Incarcerated Women, Estelle Frances Rubenstein
Theses/Capstones from 1994
A Japanese Art Form Koinobori, Hospitalized Children, and Hope: A Proposal, Nancy Tolin
An Exploration of the Soothing Affects of the Mandala on an Adolescent Population, Aleeza Cohen
Art Used as a Therapeutic Intervention Between Isralie Arabs and Jews, Sandrine Elizabeth Hahn
Assessment of Suicide Risk in Abused Adolescents Using the Rosebush Visualization Technique, Evie Zepernick
A Stepmother Archetype, Georgia Jackman Fink
A Study of Recurrent Symbols and Visual Construct Choices in the Art of Adolescent Substance Abusers, Pamela Malkoff Hayes
Evolution of the Tree Symbol as a Metaphor for Individualization, Sharon Quinn
Finish the Picture An Art-Based/Projective Technique Used With Children, Teresa Schall
Five Graphic Indicators of Sexual Abuse, James R. Gattis
H-T-P Pre and Post Tests with Schizophrenic Patients on Antipsychotic Medication, W. Kay Inman
Insight into Factors Involved in the Developmental Process of Professional Identity Formation of the Art Therapist, Marsha Hardaway-Burke
Mari Card Test: Profile of the Cardiac Patient, Eunice Brown
Mirroring Through Art to Repair the Damaged Self, Elenore Kanner Weinberg
The Psychological Related Effects of Children Creating Mandalas, Carol DeLue
The Supervisor/Student Relationship in an Art Therapy Prcticum Setting, Carla A. Hawke
The Use of Art and Wilderness Experience to Inncrease Hope in Adolescents: An Exploration of an Intervention, Brian Andrew Lewis
The Validity and Reliability of the Draw-A-Person Directive as a Global Self-Esteem Assessment in Elementary Schools, Elizabeth Van Horn
Using Collage to Overcome Resistance in Troubled Adolescents, Shirley Gallup
Theses/Capstones from 1993
Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder Using Art Therapy, Liesel Roberts
Assessment of Suicidal Youth Using Art Therapy, Susan Scoskie
Grant Proposal for an Art Therapy Program for At Risk Children in Residence at the Battered Women's Shelter Program San Mateo, CA, Rachel Cherry
Research Proposal to Study Sandplay Therapy as a Modlaity to Enhance Self-Esteem in SED Adolescents: Part I, Robert A. Goulart
Research Proposal to Study Sandplay Therapy as a Modlaity to Enhance Self-Esteem in SED Adolescents: Part II, Robert A. Goulart
Tattoo Significance Among Woment, Christine L. Pulliam
The Art Therpist's Handbook, Victoria Z. Woodrow
The Effect of Momentary Emotional States on Color Response Patterns, Lea Nazarathy
The Effects of Art Therapy on the Self-Worth of Inner City Youth, Erica Saltiel Levin
The Impact of Borderline Clients Studied in Post-Session Artwork of Nine Therapists, Debbie J. Wessels
The Influence of Time and Professioanlization on The Evolution of Art Therapists Identity, Sally V. A. Benson
The Validiity and Reliability of the "Draw a Rosebush" Art Assessment to Discriminate Between Abuse and Non-Abuse in Adolescents, Maura Katrin Schapper
Theses/Capstones from 1992
Art Therpay in a Behaviorally Oriented Day Program with a Schizophrenic Male Adult, Heidi R. Inglis
Eating Disorders and Contemporary Women, Joanna Denkin
Positive School Performance: Art as a Second Language to Promote Self-Esteem, Charlotte A. Flanagan
Preferred Symbol, Archetypal Stages, and Life Satisfaction of the Spritiual Woman at Midlife, Patricia J. Laszewski
Treatment of Adolescent Obesity Using Behavioral Art Therapy, Angela Faye Ruff
Theses/Capstones from 1991
An Analysis of Stress in the Careers of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Richard A. Jercha
An Analysis of the Feminist Perspective in Family Art Therapy Training, Constance A. Ingram
A Pilot Program: Family Art Therapy as Psychological Intervention with Terminally Ill Patients and Their Caregivers, Gwen J. Sanders
Color as a Bridge from Mental Illness, Sherryl-Anne Malone
For Kids: Grant Proposal for Pyramid Alternatives' Children's Therapy and Education Group, Amy Horn
Grant Proposal for a Pilot Program to Increase Self-Esteem in Abused Severly Emotional Disturbed Adolescents, Melissa Ann Locke-Quan
Grant Proposal for a Pilot Study Addressing the Emotional Issues Surrounding Diabetes for Diabetic Children and Adolescents and Their Family Members, Barbara A. DeRose