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 and doctoral dissertations from the students of the Art Therapy program.
Theses/Capstones from 1998
The Evolution of the Sun Symbol: Its Meaning and Signifigance in Beliefs of Cultures throughout History, Chris Chiochios
The Eye as Symbol, Elizabeth Olson
The Use of Kramer Art Therapy Evaluation to Study Behaviors Related to the Diagnostic Indicators in the Art of Adolescents, Marjan Mokarram
Young and Old Together: An Intergenerational Art Therapy Handbook, Carrie Lenihan
Theses/Capstones from 1997
A Cross-Cultural Perspective of the Perception of Color as it Relates to Affect, Delia Lynn Yskamp
A National Survey on Art Therapists Beliefs Regarding Optimal Duration of Treatment with Specific Popualtions, Jennifer J. Cartwright
Art and Healing Among the Native Americans, Serita Rardin
Art Therapy Masters Theses Indexes, Waldena R. O'Sullivan
Art Therapy with Abused Adolescents: an Efficacy Study in the Non-profit Setting, Louis Buchhold
Children Dealing with Life-Threatening Illnesses Through the Use of Creative Art Therapy, Janet Marie Natale
Early Intervention: Teaching Social Skills to Preschool Aged Children Using Art Therapy, Erin K. McElhinney
Exploring Alienation with Adolescents Identified with Serious Behavior Disordered Using Personal Symbols, Brooke Brown
Fairytales and Therapy: Using Fairytales in Assessing for Child Abuse, Kimberley Haws
Felt Art: A New Art Therapy Modality?, Meredith J. Dunn
Graphic Communications: A Case Study of a Dissociative Identity Disorder, Virginia L. Miller
Increasing Control: Watercolor Painting an Students with Developmental Disabilities, Carol Mellberg
Isolation in Women in Ministry Using Jungian Archetypes and Modified Kinetic Family Drawings, Andrea Lynn Arnold
Measuring the Validitiy of F.E.A.T.S. Using the Apple Tree Projective Drawing to Assess Self-Esteem in Adolescents, Rosine Ferber
Ofrendas: Altar-making Traditions in the Mexican Days of the Dead and Art Therapy Applications for Grief and Bereavement, Jeanne Gabriel
The Aging Population and the Experience of Life Satisfaction: A Phenomenological Paper in Clinical Art Therapy, Ariosto J. Coelho
The Diagnostic Drawing Series of Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa, Julie Price
The Effectiveness of Art Therapy with Depressed Older Adults in a Partial Hospital Program, Susan E. Galen
The Use of an Art Journal with Latency Age Children of Divorce: A Multiple Case Study, Shannon A. Anderson
The Use of House-Tree-Person Test in Diagnosing Mental Illness, Eva A. Jarrett
Theses/Capstones from 1996
A Cross-Cultural Comparison: Family Drawings of Japanese and American Elementary School Children in the United States, Junko Sumiya
A Jungian Based Study for Diagnosing Acculturative Stress Within the Hispainc Immigrant and Refugee Population, Lynnaia Keune
Art Therapy Program for the San Mateo County School-based Mental Health 599 Team, Anu Mathur
Assessigng Mandala Art in an Adolescent Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Features, Hauani Gibson
Grant Proposal for an Art Therapy Program for Pain Management at Packard Children's Hospital, Dennis Stott
Individual Art Therapy with Hospice Clients and Their Loved Ones in a Hospital Hospice Program, Beth Newman
Kids Helping Kids Side by Side, Mika Tomita
Meeting the Unborn: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Prenatal and Birth Experience, Patricia Nichols
Photo Art Therapy for the Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Program at McAuley Behavioral Health Services, Carolyn J. Donnay
Pilot Art Therapy Program for Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents at Maryhurst, Margaret K. Fennell
Pilot Art Therapy Program for SED Adolescents at the Institute for the Arts of Living, Sue Ann Martin
Read the Writing on the Walls: Graffiti and Art Therapy, Annie Marinovich
Sexual Abuse Indicators in Kinetic Family Drawings, Christopher Phillip Powers
The Diagnostic Drawing Series: A Comparison of Psychiatric Inpatient Adolescents in Crisis with Non-Hospitalized Youth, Hadass Shlagman
The Representative Use of Symbols Within the First Three Sessions of Cyber Sanplay Therapy, Sarah M. Slaughter
The Role of Art Therapy in the Formation of Identity in Female Adolescents, Kathleen M. Keller
Using Art Therapy in Developing Attachment of Adolecents in Fluid Families, Ellen Pompa
Theses/Capstones from 1995
A Grant Proposal for an Art Intervention for Anger Mangement/Violence Prevention Program, Lynn Spaulding
A Grant Proposal for a Pilot Art Therapy Program with Hospice Patients, Sharon A. Stohl
A Pilot Study for Art Therapy and the Wilderness Challenge: A Dual Modality in Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, Martha Brooke Lawrence
Art Enhanced Parenting Education for Parents of Behavior Problem Children, Joyce R. Chesnos
Art Therapy: An Alternative Therapeutic Approach in the Treatment of Adolescents at-risk for Depression, Michelle Gay Wheatley
Art Therapy and People with HIV/AIDS a Grant Proposal: Group Art Therapy Program for the San Mateo County AIDS Program, Karen Lee Tripp