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 1995
Art Therapy Based Outcome Study for Assessment of Adolescent Acute Care Treatment: A Progrtam Designed for Acute Care Adolescent Patients, Christopher Nicholas Anthony DiRaddo
Art Therapy for Adolescents with Behavior Disorders, Tricia Melican
Art Therapy Mirroring Techniques to Enhance Parents Sense of Self: Effect on Children and Adolescents, Claudia Sanchez-Cohen
Art Therapy Program for Children of Battered Women, Laura Anne Whitson
Assessing for Depression in Children with Severe Behavioral Disorders Using Kinetic-Tree-Person Drawings, Anne Tucker Stewart
A Video Proposal about the San Francisco General Hospital and Medical Center Pediatric Play Therapy Program San Francisco, California, Rebecca Ann Wyatt
Descriptive Analysis of Kinetic-Family-Drawings by Adults with Develpmental Disabilities, Barbara Kauffold
Documentation of the Use of Art Therapy in Croatia and Bosnia, Katie M. Cacic
Drawing Out the Spirit: Art Therapy as a Healing Force with Epstein-Barr Virus, Bardi Koodrin
Family Art Therapy: A Therapeutic Approach to Aid in the Adjustment of Foster Child Placement, Gina R. Larsen-Mott
Grant Proposal for A Children's Bereavement Art Group, Tobi Garelick
Grant Proposal for an Art Therapy Program at the Comprehensive Pediatric Care Unit of Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Susan L. Kleck
Grant Proposal for an Art Therapy Program for Individuals Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Theresa L. Hall
Grant Proposal for Enhancing Self-Esteem for Severly Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents Through Art Therapy, Donna L. Capaldi
Myth or Trend: A Study of the "Clinification Syndrome" in the Field of Art Therapy, Corinne Celeste Meadows
Substance Abusers and Differentiation: Viewing the Self within the Family System, Jeannette Lynn Whitfield
The AIDS Memorial Quilt: Therapeutic Benefits of Panelmaking as an Art Therapy Intervention, Michelle A. Thibaudeau
The "Bridge Drawing" Used as an Assessment of Chemically Dependent Veterans, Hal Lynne Micali
The Coming Out Process: Parental Knowledge of Sexual Orientation and the Self-Esteem of Adult Lesbians, Gabrielle M. Johnson
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
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