This is a collection of Art Therapy Master's Theses (1981 - 2015) from the time that the program was located at Notre Dame de Namur. The program moved to Dominican University of California in the Fall of 2021.
The theses listed here currently reside at the Archbishop Alemany Library and only available for use in the Library
Theses/Capstones from 2004
Healing Anxiety Associated With Sudden Loss Trauma Via a Group Art Therapy Experience, Myriam Martinez
Self-Concept Through Art Therapy: Using Therapeutic Creative Arts Techniques With Students With Learning Disabilities, Madeline F. Pascua
Fire All Through Time, Laura Phillips
Enhancing Teacher-Child Relationships Through Art, Elizabeth Recktenwald
Using Sandplay in a Creative Arts Therapeutic Intervention Program for Depression in Elementary School Children, Elaine Gaidis Swanson
A Bereavement Art Therapy Support Group for Grieving Adults, Jessica Tang
Vampires and Art: Addiction and Treatment from a Jungian Perspective, Xan B. Walker
Assessing the Use of Rawley Silver's Draw-A-Story for Depression Indicators and Peer Victimization in Elementary School Age Children, Trudy Willadson
Theses/Capstones from 2003
Preferences and Descriptions of Religious Imagery According to Anxiety Level, Shay Lynn Alderman
A National Survey of Art Therapists Regarding: How Art Affects the Development of Trust in the Therapeutic Relationship, Jennifer R. Alward
Combining Art Therapy and Ecopsychology: An Art and Wilderness Experience, Allie Andrus
A 10 Week Creative Arts Expression Workshop in a School Based Environment and Its Effect on Self-Esteem in 6th, 7th, and 8th Graders, Shannon M. Asbury
A Thesis Examining Historic Images of Christ as They Reflect Existential Themes of Love, Loss and Hope and Their Implcations Within the Terapeutic Process, Carolyn A. Farrell-Shaw
Medical Art Therapy: A Synthesized Literature Review Resource Guide, Daynia J. Flynn
Defining Self Through Symbol: A Psychological Analysis of the Cinderella Fairy Tale, Colette Fujimoto
Developing Positive Self-Talk Using Symbols in Sandplay, Jennifer Joyce
The Old Masters Art Collage With Couples: Increasing Intimacy Through a Six-Session Art Intervention With Couples, Justina Larson
Menopause: A Rite of Passage Creation of a Menopausal Mask: Honoring Women in Midlife, Mary H. Lowe
A Grant Proposal Examining Mirroring as an Art Therapy Technique With High Risk Preschoolers in Head Start, Majica Phillips
Huichol Yarn Painting as an Art Therapy Intervention to Promote Insight in Latino Children, Iris Rodriguez-Costello
Increasing Self-Awareness and Positive Feelings Towards Self: The Use of Art with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, Jennifer Schott
A Group Art Therapy Initiative to Serve Women with Breast Cancer and Their Children in Mountain View, and Surrounding Santa Clara County Area, Karen R. Sturm
The Option Mandala: A Brief Art Therapy Intervention for Sexually Active Teens, Jacqueline Tabb
Using the FEATS with Brain Tumor Patients, Jennifer Taylor
The Effects of Digital Storytelling on Healing and Closure with World War II Veterans, Deborah A. Vanni
Self-Portrait Drawings by Adolescents Diagnosed With Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders, Elizabeth Zimmerman
Theses/Capstones from 2002
A Safe Space: An Art therpay Group for Women Survivors of Domestic Violence, Angela Angelone
Establishing and Nurturing Social Connectedness Through a Threapeutic Art Experience for Children Aged Seven to Ten, Lisa Bartsch
Art Therapy Program for At-Risk Children of Battered Women, Melissa Miel Foster
Perceptions of Beauty Among Young Children in a Multicultural Society, Gila Gam
Art Therapy for the First Three Steps of AA's 12-Step Program, Pen-lung Liao
An Art Therapy Program for Women Who are Experienceing Postpartum Depression at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, Brittany Ryan Michaelian
Relationship Between Perception of the Character of God and a Father's Parenting Style Using Christ Images as a Projective Assessment Tool, Heather Dawn Moore
A Correlational Study of the Effects of Acculturation and Body Image on the Perceptions of Obesity and Thiness by Latin Women, Rosa M. Morrow
The Relationship Between Art in Schoool Curriculum and Adolescent Depressive Tendencies, Sara A. Post
A School-Based Bereavement Art Therapy Support Group for Grieving Children, Cecilie Christine Rowitz
Use of the Kinetic Family Drawing to Assess for Familial Alcoholism, Sarah Rubin
A Preventative Intervention for Children at Risk for Depression Using Learned Optimism and Art Therapy, Anne B. Stockwell
Conditions in Which the Process of Art is Healing: A Survey, July K. Ugas
The Spiral Symbol: Yesterday and Today, Jill L. Waterfield
Theses/Capstones from 2001
A Correlation Study Using the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale and the Coopersmith Sel-Esteem Inventory (School Form) With Fourth and Fifth Grade Students, Monica M. Garcia
An Educational Video Illustrating the Theories of Margaret Naumberg and Edith Kramer: "Art as Therapy" and "Art as Psychotherapy", Philip J. Lawson
Teacher's Perception of Art Education in the Kindergarten Classroom, Ellen J. St. Amand
Theses/Capstones from 2000
Providing the "Release" Through an Art Therapy Journal While Promoting Insight: For Adolescent Self-INjurers, Melissa Ciappetta
A Blind Study Using the House-Tree-Person Test to Determine Birth Order, Amalia Leigh Collins
Art Therapy Can be Used to Detect Triggers That Cause Violent Behavior, Steven Edmonds
Using the AVPT With German University Students to Establish a Norminative Base for Visual Construct Preferences, Julie Haschemeyer